Our Story

In 2005  Michael Hooker formed Hooker Engineering Australia with the objective of providing hydraulic and mechanical engineering services to the mining and industrial sectors. Through our commitment to our client objectives we have experienced sustainable growth over our 15 years of operation.

We operate with a focused, dynamic team of qualified engineers and tradespeople who form the backbone of Hooker Engineering Australia. Our team have the breadth of knowledge and experience to design and create bespoke solutions to any mechanical engineering project. Complete hydraulic and lubrication systems are designed, manufactured and assembled in-house at our Malaga facility, with the highest quality components sourced both locally and internationally.

Hooker Engineering Australia provides seamless project engineering services to a broad range of local and international industries. We provide engineering from the early stages of a project with initial conceptual design, through to detailed design and execution. Hooker Engineering Australia has established itself as a successful provider of hydraulic and lubrication systems to the iron ore, coal gold and base metal mining equipment suppliers and their end users.

We have successfully completed projects throughout Australasia, Pacific Rim, South America and Africa.

Our Approach

Our objective is to provide clients with cost-effective engineered solutions, manufactured to the appropriate quality standards. Client requirements are assessed against recognized standards to converge on the optimal approach and hence best value outcome. We strive to delivers these objectives on time and on budget.

To achieve this, Hooker Engineering Australia merges all engineering disciplines – Hydraulic, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation. Systems can be installed and commissioned by our field engineers in accordance with client requirements, making us a one-stop complete service provider.

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Our People

We have a team of degree qualified engineers and designers working across mechanical, electrical and instrumentation disciplines. Our team members have experience working across various industries including industrial, mining, petrochemical, automotive and marine.

Our Malaga workshop is staffed with a dedicated and experienced team of technicians and tradespeople. We endeavour to educate all of our personnel to different processes in the manufacturing sequence, in order to equip them with depth of knowledge and ensure personal development. All of our site works are supervised by experienced technicians and field engineers, all of whom possess significant hydraulic and equipment specific knowledge gained from the manufacturing side of our business. This ensures a high level of autonomy and knowledge for site troubleshooting and fault diagnosis. It is likely that the personnel who built your system will be on site servicing the equipment.

We understand the critical nature of the work we undertake, as well as the production and safety risks involved. In order to ensure the health and safety of our customers, as well as our staff, we work to ensure all of our site personnel are technically proficient, understand our customer requirements and have a demonstrated commitment to safety.

In addition, we have made a commitment to invest in the training of young engineers and apprentices under the careful mentorship of senior engineers and tradespeople. This philosophy has yielded a close team with good continuity of personnel which ensures we are well equipped to deliver the best outcomes to our customers.

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