Recruitment and staffing solutions in Brisbane
Level 9 / 141 Queen Street
QLD 4000
Brisbane
Recruitment and workforce solutions for Queensland's projects, sites and operations
Queensland spreads its technical work across a very large map. Your next hire might sit in a Brisbane CBD project office, at a Bowen Basin mine, on a Gladstone processing site, in the North West Minerals Province or on a south east venue build. Each of those locations draws on a different labour market, a different roster and a different set of site requirements.
Brunel's Brisbane specialists recruit across all of it, covering construction and infrastructure, mining, defence, agribusiness, renewable energy and power and grid. We understand how a role changes when it moves from a metropolitan office to a residential regional town or a rostered site, and that understanding shapes who we shortlist, how we brief them and how long they stay.
Queensland coverage from one Brisbane base, backed by a global network
Queensland's industry does not sit in a single catchment. Coal and gas operations run through the Bowen and Surat Basins. Copper, zinc and phosphate work sits around Mount Isa and the North West Minerals Province. LNG, alumina and heavy industry cluster at Gladstone. Sugar, beef, cotton and horticulture run from the Darling Downs to the Burdekin. Our Brisbane office is structured to service that spread rather than one metropolitan market.
In practice that means matching each hire to the way the work is actually done: residential appointments for people already living in Mackay, Rockhampton or Toowoomba, drive-in drive-out rosters for Bowen Basin sites within reach of regional centres and fly-in fly-out arrangements for the north west. Getting that call right is often the difference between a placement that holds and one that turns over inside six months.
Behind the local team sits Brunel's national and global network. Where a discipline is genuinely scarce in Australia, we source it from our international talent pools and manage the visa, mobilisation and relocation work that follows.
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| Brunel Brisbane is our base for Queensland and the broader east coast, supporting clients and candidates across construction and infrastructure, mining, defence, agribusiness, renewable energy and power and grid. From Queen Street we support metropolitan projects in the south east and site-based operations through central, western and north Queensland, placing people into permanent, fixed-term and rostered contract roles.
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Industries we service
Queensland runs on a broad industrial base. Resources and heavy industry underpin the central and north west regions while a large public capital works programme reshapes the south east. Agribusiness, defence and renewable energy keep expanding their technical workforces alongside them. Brunel recruits across all of these sectors from Brisbane.
Agribusiness
Finding the people and skills
who can bridge traditional agriculture and emerging technology.
Defence
Recruiting certified experts to secure critical national infrastructure and
strategic defence operations.
Conventional Energy
Sourcing technical experts who can optimise traditional hydrocarbons and conventional energy initiatives.
Construction & Infrastructure
Delivering skilled project managers and engineers to execute complex civil and commercial build programs.
The specialist disciplines behind Queensland's projects
The roles that decide whether a Queensland project lands on schedule are usually the hardest to fill. We recruit project managers, planners, schedulers and cost controllers for projects from construction, defence and energy to agribusiness and ICT. We recruit civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and process engineers across construction, resources and energy. We recruit information technology specialists for operational technology, data and systems integration. We recruit grid, transmission and renewable energy professionals as the state's generation mix changes. Where you need more than individual hires, we take on managed workforce delivery, mobilisation and outcome-based scopes.
Mining
Mobilising experienced personnel to support resources development and high-yield mining projects.
Renewable Energy
Connecting specialists to accelerate globally-critical green transition energy projects.
Power & Grid
Supplying technical specialists who can build and optimise modern high-voltage grid-scale power networks.
Life Sciences
Sourcing scientific professionals to clinical breakthroughs and lifesaving medical studies.
Meet our Brisbane recruitment specialists
Our Brisbane consultants run desks by discipline rather than by general patch, so the specialist briefing you on a shutdown planner is not the same one recruiting your agronomy or defence engineering roles. Each has direct experience of the sector they recruit for and of the Queensland regions it operates in.
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Why Queensland employers work with Brunel
Brunel has operated in Australasia since 1997 and has supported Queensland industry for most of that time. What clients here tend to value is less the scale of the network and more that we already understand how their work is structured before the brief starts.
Coverage across every Queensland region: we recruit for the south east, the Bowen and Surat Basins, Gladstone, Mackay, Central Queensland, both the sunshine and Gold coasts and the North West Minerals Province.
Shutdown and turnaround surge capacity: processing, LNG and heavy industry sites need trades and supervision at volume for short defined windows. We mobilise those crews and demobilise them cleanly.
Two pipelines competing for the same people: the south east capital works and venues program is drawing on the same engineers, planners and project controls professionals as resources and energy. We recruit on both sides of that competition and can see where the movement is happening.
Compliance and HSEQ discipline: site inductions, competencies and health, safety, environment and quality (HSEQ) requirements vary by Queensland operator. We verify them before a candidate reaches your shortlist.
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FAQs
Does Brunel use FIFO or DIDO rosters for Queensland resources roles?
Both, along with residential arrangements. Queensland's resources workforce is served by a mix of fly-in fly-out and drive-in drive-out labour depending on the site and its distance from regional centres. Bowen Basin operations frequently draw drive-in drive-out workers from Mackay, Emerald and surrounding towns, while north west sites more often rely on fly-in fly-out. We advise on the model most likely to fill and hold a given role.
What technical roles does Brunel Brisbane recruit most often?
Project managers, planners, schedulers and cost controllers. Civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and process engineers. Supervisors and superintendents, maintenance and reliability specialists and HSEQ advisors. Information technology professionals working on operational technology, data and systems integration. We also recruit agronomy, livestock and food production specialists for Queensland agribusiness, plus cleared or clearable personnel for defence programmes.
How does Brunel help employers competing with Queensland's infrastructure program for talent?
South east Queensland's capital works and venues program draws on the same engineering, project controls and construction management talent that resources and energy projects rely on. We recruit across both, which gives us a clear read on where professionals are moving, what is shifting them and what an offer needs to look like to compete.
Can overseas candidates be placed on Queensland projects?
Candidates need valid Australian work rights before we can put them forward. Where a skill set is genuinely scarce here, Brunel can source internationally and arrange sponsorship through our 482 On-Hire Labour Agreement, then manage visas, mobilisation and relocation. Our consultants will tell you upfront whether a specific role is open to overseas applicants.
Which Queensland regions does Brunel Brisbane recruit for?
Our Brisbane team recruits statewide. That covers the south east corner and the Brisbane CBD, the Bowen and Surat Basins, Gladstone and Central Queensland, Mackay and the Whitsundays, Townsville and the north, plus the North West Minerals Province around Mount Isa. Roles are listed by region on Brunel's job portal, so you can filter to the area you want to work in.
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