Dobbie Engineers has been solving industrial engineering problems for New Zealand since 1990.
From our offices in Rotorua and Auckland, we service projects nationwide.
Our clients operate across dairy and food processing, meat and seafood, beverages and bottling, FMCG manufacturing, pulp and paper, forestry and fibreboard, building products manufacturing, energy and geothermal, and building services.
Most of our work sits within New Zealand's process and industrial sectors, where reliable mechanical and process systems are the difference between a plant that runs and one that doesn't.
The Team
The people listed below are the people who do the work. Our permanent team of 30 includes professional engineers, graduate engineers, engineering designers, and CAD specialists working across mechanical, structural, process, and commissioning disciplines. We also have a Worksafe-approved Pressure Equipment Design Verifier in-house, which means we can verify our own pressure equipment designs without relying on external sign-off. At Dobbie, clients deal directly with the engineers who understand their plant.
Hamish Bennett
Managing Director
Greg Moore
Director
Chris Macindoe
Principal Engineer
Stuart du Preez
SENIOR ENGINEER
Jacqueline Griffin
HR Consultant
Yvette Devoe
Office Manager
Mason Sadeghi
Senior Process Engineer
Tim Burrows
Senior Engineer
Christian Aranas
Professional Engineer
James Harrison
Mechanical Engineer
Angus Phillipson
Design Engineer
Roy Abbott
Senior Designer
Blake Taylor
Mechanical Engineer
Oliver Strang
Project Engineer
Sam Suh
Designer
Lenny Wong
Mechanical Engineer
Gerry Dimayuga
Senior Designer
Hao Jia
Graduate Mechanical Engineer
James Robinson
Graduate Mechanical Engineer
Rishank Arora
Graduate Mechanical Engineer
Charlie Frame
Graduate Mechanical Engineer
Jim Dobbie
Founder (Retired 2019)
Industry Partners
Quality Assurance
Dobbie is a member of the Association of Consulting Engineers of New Zealand. Our professional staff are members of Engineering New Zealand.
Both Dobbie offices are audited and certified by Telarc as complying with ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.
Training And Software
Dobbie continually invests in staff training and software so that we can efficiently provide technically up-to-date advice and practical solutions to our clients.
Our staff have attended American Society of Mechanical Engineers design code courses in the USA and Australia and all staff participate in technical training or project management courses.
We currently use AutoCAD (mechanical design), AutoCAD PLANT (piping and equipment 3D design), Inventor (3D Solid Modelling), Nastran (FEA), AutoPIPE (pipe stress analysis), NozzlePro-FE Pipe, PV Elite (pressure vessel design), S-Frame (structural analysis) and the usual Microsoft products.
Our Awards
In July 2013 Dobbie was awarded a Silver Award by the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand, for our design and supervision of the Ngati Tuwharetoa Geothermal Assets (NTGA) clean steam project.
Asaleo Care require a high quality reliable and economic steam supply to ensure operation of their Kawerau Tissue Mill. The steam was originally supplied by natural gas fired boilers. NTGA agreed to supply high pressure clean steam to Asaleo Care generated from geothermal energy. The supply had to be reliable so that it could replace the natural gas fired boilers.
The judges wrote: “Dobbie Engineers utilized technical innovation, reliability, environmental practices and heat exchanger selection to deliver for the client”.
In August 2007 Dobbie was awarded a Gold Award by the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand, for our design of the Tauhara Geothermal Heat Plant near Taupo.
This project allows Contact Energy to provide geothermal energy to Tenon for heating nine timber drying kilns that were previously heated by gas. The new plant uses both phases of the geothermal fluid, two stages of heat exchanging and fully re-injects the geothermal fluid without pumping.
Thirty four projects made the finals and four projects won gold awards.
The judges wrote: “Dobbie Engineers demonstrated great technical skill, true innovation and excellent service”.
