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Highly Skilled & Customer Focused

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We are a customer-focused business and pride ourselves on fast responses to customer enquiries, quick turnaround times and practical solutions.

North Queensland Engineering provides professional engineering consultancy. Our highly skilled team can tailor our services to your requirements. We speak your language.


Doug Lee

Principal Engineer / Director

Doug has 15 years experience working as a professional engineer, during this time work has been completed for small business owners and large multinational companies throughout Australasia. Doug has an honest approach and values integrity in all transactions.

Doug is passionate about engineering and enjoys working with clients to solve difficult problems where there seems to be no solution. The variation and high quality deliverables provided has seen NQE steadily grow in capability every year.

Outside of work Doug enjoys working on his hobby farm, rebuilding machinery, woodworking and spending time with his wife and three kids.

Specialist In
  • Front end engineering reviews
  • Critical design reviews
  • Statutory certified designs
  • Construction / On site support
  • Design Certification (RPEQ / CPEng / IntPE)

Reuben Richardson

Principal Engineer / Director

Reuben is a professional engineer with over 12 years experience in the engineering consultancy field in Australia and Canada. Reuben’s experience includes structural / civil design, project management, consulting, inspections, condition assessments, various studies, estimating and design reviews.

The structures he has experience with include a variety of structural assets including tanks, boilers, bins, silos, associated support steel work, wind fences, foundations , civil works and mobile bulk materials handling machines.

Outside of work Reuben enjoys a variety of sports including cycling, running, paddling and kitesurfing in the Townsville Region. He and his family also formed a love for the snow, snowboarding and back country touring while in Canada.

Specialist In
  • Concept Development
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Detailed Design
  • Structural Inspections
  • Design Reviews and Finite Element Analysis
  • Design Certification (RPEQ / CPEng / PEng (BC))

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