Hire Drawing Checking Designers in South Africa

Senior Mechanical Draughtsman and 3D Modeller with 30+ years of specialist experience across mining, metallurgical processing, oil refining, power generation, water treatment, and industrial plant pro... Read more

Senior Mechanical Draughtsman and 3D Modeller with 30+ years of specialist experience across mining, metallurgical processing, oil refining, power generation, water treatment, and industrial plant projects — with an international project footprint spanning 15 countries across Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australasia. I have worked almost entirely as a contractor and specialist throughout my career, building broad technical depth across plant layout, 3D piping, structural steelwork, mechanical detailing, and drawing checking — alongside section leadership and drawing office management on major EPCM and EPC projects. Core skills: 3D plant layout — piping, structural, mechanical, civil Isometric draughting and MTO production Drawing checking and QA across all disciplines Section leadership and drawing office management Pressure vessel and cryogenic equipment design Materials handling — conveyors, chutes, hoppers, crushers Mentoring and training of junior draughtsmen Software: AutoCAD (30+ years) - Autodesk Plant 3D - Autodesk Inventor - Solid Edge (ST7) - CADWorx Plant - Mechanical Desktop Selected projects: Anglo Platinum Potgietersrust North 600 ktpm UG2 Concentrator (3D plant layout and piping) Kusile Power Station Water Treatment Plant (piping design and DO management) Randgold Tongon Gold Project, Ivory Coast (3D piping layout) United Silicon 32 MW SAF, Iceland (drawing checking) ELECTRATHERM Cast Iron Blobulator Plant, India (3D structural, mechanical and piping) HDG water towers to 522 m3 — Angola, Botswana, South Africa Available immediately for remote, contract, and freelance assignments internationally.

I'm a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Metso — the company most people in mining and metals know as the old Outotec / Allis-Chalmers / Svedala / Lurgi lineage — so I've spent my days around some of the h... Read more

I'm a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Metso — the company most people in mining and metals know as the old Outotec / Allis-Chalmers / Svedala / Lurgi lineage — so I've spent my days around some of the heaviest and most demanding equipment in the industry: rotary kilns, coolers, dryers, straight-grate and grate-kiln pelletizing lines, and combustion/burner systems for iron ore and smelting plants. I don't just push features on a screen — I design equipment that actually gets built, ships to plants in Australia, Sweden, Indonesia and India, and has to survive real operating conditions. When a client hands me an old drawing or a rough sketch, I know what the part is for, so the model comes out right the first time. What I mostly do for freelance clients: - Turning old 2D drawings, scanned prints or PDFs into clean, fully parametric 3D models (SolidWorks or Inventor). - 3D-to-3D rework — remodelling messy imported geometry into proper feature-based, editable models. - Reverse engineering parts from photos and measurements when the original drawings are gone. - Production-ready manufacturing drawings with proper GD&T, tolerances and BOMs. - Weldments, sheet metal, large assemblies, and skeleton / top-down layouts for families of parts. I care about the boring things that separate a good model from a bad one — clean feature trees, correct references, sensible naming, drawings a shop can actually read. I'm also comfortable with the messy real-world stuff: legacy revisions, mixed units, incomplete data, and vendor back-and-forth. I'm easy to talk to, I ask questions early instead of guessing, and I'd rather do a small paid test part first so you know exactly what you're getting before committing to a bigger job.

Senior Mechanical Draughtsman and 3D Modeller with 30+ years of specialist experience across mining, metallurgical processing, oil refining, power generation, water treatment, and industrial plant pro... Read more

Senior Mechanical Draughtsman and 3D Modeller with 30+ years of specialist experience across mining, metallurgical processing, oil refining, power generation, water treatment, and industrial plant projects — with an international project footprint spanning 15 countries across Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australasia. I have worked almost entirely as a contractor and specialist throughout my career, building broad technical depth across plant layout, 3D piping, structural steelwork, mechanical detailing, and drawing checking — alongside section leadership and drawing office management on major EPCM and EPC projects. Core skills: 3D plant layout — piping, structural, mechanical, civil Isometric draughting and MTO production Drawing checking and QA across all disciplines Section leadership and drawing office management Pressure vessel and cryogenic equipment design Materials handling — conveyors, chutes, hoppers, crushers Mentoring and training of junior draughtsmen Software: AutoCAD (30+ years) - Autodesk Plant 3D - Autodesk Inventor - Solid Edge (ST7) - CADWorx Plant - Mechanical Desktop Selected projects: Anglo Platinum Potgietersrust North 600 ktpm UG2 Concentrator (3D plant layout and piping) Kusile Power Station Water Treatment Plant (piping design and DO management) Randgold Tongon Gold Project, Ivory Coast (3D piping layout) United Silicon 32 MW SAF, Iceland (drawing checking) ELECTRATHERM Cast Iron Blobulator Plant, India (3D structural, mechanical and piping) HDG water towers to 522 m3 — Angola, Botswana, South Africa Available immediately for remote, contract, and freelance assignments internationally.