Design · Fabrication · Automation · Maintenance
The rare shop that builds the steel and the smarts — structural fabrication and industrial control & automation, from design to on-site commissioning, across Far North Queensland.
SAE Engineering is built around one thing most shops can't offer: structural steel fabrication and industrial control & automation from the same hands. We design it, fabricate it, install it on site, and wire and program the controls that make it run — so one engineer is accountable from the first drawing to final commissioning.
That means QBCC-licensed structural work to AS/NZS 1554, crane-lift installs on site, and complete control systems — PLCs, variable-speed drives, HMIs, SCADA and machine automation — built and commissioned in the field. Thousands of jobs across construction, civil and food & beverage processing, from Cairns to the Tablelands and right across Far North Queensland.
We're not the shop for a $50 cash job. We're the shop for operators who need it engineered properly, built to last, and running when they said it would. If that's you, send through your project and let's get it moving.
PLCs, variable-speed drives, HMIs, SCADA and control-panel builds — programmed and commissioned on site, from the same hands that build the steel. Try the live demo.
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Detailing, fabrication and crane-lift erection on site — QBCC-licensed and welded to AS/NZS 1554. We build the steel and stand it up.
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Structural and custom steel cut, welded and finished to spec — mild steel, stainless and aluminium, to AS/NZS 1554. For jobs that have to hold up, not just look the part.
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On-site breakdown response, repairs and fitting for plant, heavy equipment and structures. We get you running and keep the downtime short.
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Build-ready design drawn by the same engineer who fabricates and installs it — so what's on the drawing is what gets built, to Australian standards, first time.
Learn more →Our own photos from our own jobs — shot on the workshop floor and on site, not pulled from a stock library.
Revegetation Contractors, Cairns
From bare chassis rails to road-ready. Fabricated tipping body and subframe, checkerplate toolboxes and battery box, lighting and wiring — welded, painted and delivered from our Cairns workshop.
Revegetation Contractors
Heavy fabricated frames, hopper and drum assembly for a paper-processing line — steelwork built to keep running in a dusty, always-on plant environment.
Flagship — Control & Automation
Banana Feeds Australia — Far North Queensland
Complete PLC control system for an industrial banana-feed dryer: Schneider M221 program, a fleet of variable-speed drives on Modbus, HMI operator screens, burner management and safety interlocks — panel built, installed and commissioned on site, supported remotely.
Plenty of shops can weld. Very few can engineer the steel and the control system that runs it, then stand behind the lot. Here's what you get with SAE.
Almost no one in the region fabricates structural steel and builds the control systems to run it. We do both — so your project isn't split across three contractors pointing at each other.
The person who quotes your job designs it, builds it and commissions it. No sales reps, no hand-offs, no one to blame when it goes sideways — because it won't.
QBCC-licensed, AS/NZS 1554 structural welding, crane-lift on-site installs. Real capability for construction, civil and processing plants — not a hobby shop.
PLC programming, variable-speed drives, HMIs, SCADA, panel builds and machine retrofits — commissioned on site, in real operating conditions.
Cairns, the Tablelands and all of Far North Queensland — and we'll travel interstate for the right job.
Based in Cairns and servicing Far North Queensland's most demanding sites.
Structural steel, control & automation, design to on-site commissioning — across Far North Queensland. Send it through.
