GR Engineering Wins $20m Afema Gold Plant Design Contract From West Perth Miner Turaco
GR Engineering has won a ~$20m contract to design Turaco Gold's Afema plant. Perth had 12 live direct engineering ads on 9 November.
GR Engineering has won a contract worth about $20 million to design and manage procurement for a new gold plant, West Perth miner Turaco Gold told the ASX on 9 November. The plant is for Turaco's Afema Gold Project in Côte d'Ivoire. GR Engineering is based in Ascot, in Perth's east.
What did GR Engineering win?
GR Engineering will run three jobs in one contract. It will support Turaco's definitive feasibility study, do the detailed design of the process plant, and manage procurement. Turaco says combining them lets the work run side by side instead of one after another.
The design covers the complete process plant. That includes earthworks, concrete, steelwork, platework, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation and control systems. Selected site infrastructure is also in scope. GR Engineering will prepare capital and operating cost estimates for the plant.
The procurement side covers tender packages, technical and commercial bid reviews, award recommendations, and purchase order and contract paperwork. Turaco said GR Engineering had already begun engineering and cost estimates under an earlier letter of intent.
| Detail | What Turaco announced |
|---|---|
| Contractor | GR Engineering Services (ASX: GNG) |
| Client | Turaco Gold (ASX: TCG), West Perth |
| Project | Afema Gold Project, south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire |
| Value | About A$20 million |
| Scope | DFS support, detailed plant design, procurement management |
| Announced | 9 November 2026 |
Why does Turaco want to move quickly?
Turaco wants Afema ready to build as soon as it can. Managing director Justin Tremain said the aim was "bringing Afema to construction-ready status as quickly as possible". He said it would also allow early site works, subject to permits and board approval.
Turaco says Afema holds a mineral resource of 4.65 million ounces of gold. That estimate was updated on 17 June 2026 as part of its pre-feasibility study. No construction decision has been announced.
How busy is GR Engineering this year?
The Afema deal follows two larger contracts GR Engineering announced in recent months. On 17 August it signed a $275 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Develop Global for the Yitirrti copper-silver-zinc project, formerly called Sulphur Springs. On 1 September it signed a $50 million EPC contract with Medallion Metals to convert the Cosmic Boy concentrator.
The company says it employs more than 500 professional, technical and support staff in Australia and overseas. It also uses a direct construction workforce and subcontractors. Neither company has said how many people will work on the Afema design.
What it means for Perth engineering job seekers
Plant design work like this needs mechanical, electrical, structural and process engineers, plus drafters and procurement staff. Direct engineering ads in our feed are thin right now. On 9 November, Jobs In Perth listed 15 live engineering jobs in Western Australia placed directly by employers, and 12 engineering jobs in Perth.
Of the 15 WA ads, Mineral Resources and Curtin University posted four each and Fortescue three. Six mentioned mechanical, electrical, structural, process or design work. They included lead and plant mechanical engineer roles in Osborne Park, a structural engineer in Port Hedland and a distribution design engineer in Forrestdale. None of the 12 Perth ads stated an annual salary. GR Engineering did not appear among the employers in our engineering hub.
Mining is a bigger pool. We showed 253 live mining jobs in WA on the same day.
How we reported this
- Contract scope, value, timing and the Tremain quote come from Turaco Gold's ASX announcement of 9 November 2026.
- GR Engineering's Ascot address comes from its ASX company profile. Its staff numbers and earlier contracts come from its own releases of 17 August and 1 September 2026.
- Jobs In Perth figures are live direct-from-employer ads in our feed, observed on 9 November 2026. Recruitment agency and aggregator ads are not included.
- Cover image: AI-generated illustration, not a photo of the event.
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