Piping Engineering Trainee (High Pressure Metallurgy)

Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; office-based with travel to project sites, including remote sites, when required.

Salary: CAD 81,000–83,000 per year, plus potential performance-based incentives and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides engineering, technology, project management, and operations solutions for the mining, metals, energy, and infrastructure industries.

What you will do

• Support studies and projects involving high-pressure and high-temperature autoclave technology for copper, gold, silver, nickel, alumina, and other metals.
• Prepare design calculations, equipment and piping documentation, technical specifications, data sheets, reports, and presentations.
• Model piping systems using AFT Fathom, Impulse, and Arrow for incompressible, viscous, and compressible fluids.
• Develop Piping and Instrumentation Drawings and contribute to plant layouts, equipment sizing, and equipment design reviews.
• Participate in process hazard reviews, including HAZID and HAZOP, as well as capital and operating cost estimates.
• Coordinate technical deliverables with project teams, designers, technicians, clients, vendors, contractors, and field personnel.

Requirements

• Mechanical Engineering degree from an accredited university; graduating in 2026 or recently graduated.
• Understanding of engineering and business fundamentals, with strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to change, take on new challenges, and work collaboratively.
• Willingness and ability to travel to project sites, including remote sites.
• Academic or work experience with mechanical and piping equipment design is beneficial, including pressure vessels, piping, heat exchangers, tanks, and process equipment.
• Previous co-op or summer experience within a mechanical engineering team is an asset.

Nice to have

• Experience with metallurgical process equipment and piping.
• Knowledge of ASME pressure vessel, piping, or heat exchanger design.
• Active extracurricular or volunteer involvement during university or in the community.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunities to contribute to complex local and global projects.
• Formal and informal mentorship from experienced industry professionals.
• Support toward obtaining a professional engineering designation.
• Flexible work environment and long-term career development.
• Professional development programs, sustainability initiatives, Toastmasters, and charitable, social, and sports activities.