About · The company

Family-run. Held to tolerance.

SMITH FAMILY OWNED · PAGET, MACKAY QLD · 7 TRADES · 24/7

A Smith-family business in Paget, Mackay — seven trades under one roof, run by people who repair all in house, 24/7, and turn up when a dragline stops at 2am.

Work with us → 07 4952 3444 (24/7)

ABC crew member standing on the Curragh 303 dragline as a crane lifts a large structural component overhead — **Fig. 01** — Component lift · Curragh dragline 303

Since the late 1980s, in Paget.

More than three decades building, repairing and rebuilding heavy mining and industrial equipment across Central Queensland.

From monthly maintenance down-days to full dragline refurbishments, the work has stayed the same shape: outsize, time-critical, and too important to send south. The business grew around that brief — seven departments added under one roof so a repair never has to leave the building.

OwnershipSmith family — locally owned and run

EstablishedLate 1980s · Paget, Mackay

RegisteredABN 15 139 918 013

StreamsWorkshop · Site services · Heavy machinery

Three large fabricated gears of increasing size standing upright on the ABC workshop floor — **Fig. 02** — Fabricated gear sets · scale of works

The facility, dimensioned.

One complex at 35 Commercial Avenue — stated as a table, because that's how we'd want to read it too.

Element	Dimension	Note
F-01Workshop complex	9,000 m²	Seven departments under one roof
F-02Hardstand	30,000 m²	Laydown and assembly
F-03Fabrication building	90 × 30 × 16 m	4 dragline bucket arch pits
F-04Load access	10 × 10 × 35 m	Width · height · length
F-05Crane capacity	150 t	Dual lift · 12 m under hook
F-06Power supply	11 kV	Largest at Paget

35 Commercial Avenue · Paget QLD 4740

Full machine envelope on the capabilities page

Personnel.

Locally owned and run by the Smith family, with crews who've worked the Bowen Basin for decades. Indexed, like everything else here.

P-01Directors — Smith family Owners · hands-on managementLocally owned
P-02General manager Operations · PagetWorkshop + field
P-03Welding supervisors Accredited · leading certified welders + boilermakersDept 01
P-04Certified trades Fitters · machinists · trade-accredited paintersDepts 02–06
P-05Engineering SolidWorks · FEA · AS1100 draftingDept 07
P-06Field crews Planners · supervisors · relief operators · LHL-0198324/7

What the crew says.

Employer ratings published on SEEK — quoted verbatim, cited like any other measurement.

4.5 / 5

SEEK employer rating

91 %

Would recommend

24 / 7

The 2am call gets answered

“Management were a part of the team, very hands-on.”

Ref. Q-01 — SEEK employer review · verbatim

“Good team spirit, clean camp at site.”

Ref. Q-02 — SEEK employer review · verbatim

ABC tradesman in hi-vis recording QA measurements against a large machined flange in the workshop — **Fig. 03** — QA measurement · machined flange

Two ABC fitters in hi-vis working together on a large red gear case housing in the workshop — **Fig. 04** — Fitting crew · gear-case overhaul

Local by design.

Mackay trades, working Mackay's machines — without flying crews from Brisbane.

Workshop, field services and labour hire all run from Paget: planners, supervisors, relief operators and trades across the Bowen Basin's mines, ports, sugar mills and power stations. When the job is outsize, our own low-loaders move it on our own schedule.

Labour hireQLD Licence LHL-01983

CoverageBowen Basin · Central Queensland

Safety5 years LTI-free — Coppabella

CareersRecruiting via SEEK · 4.5/5 · 91% recommend

Oversize dragline bucket loaded on an ABC low-loader travelling a Queensland highway under blue sky — **Fig. 05** — Dragline bucket · ABC low-loader

Deal directly with the people doing the work.

Office and emergency are the same number — the person who answers can walk to the floor and look at your job. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Request a quote → 07 4952 3444 (24/7)