SCEE secures $90m in contracts

Perth-based Southern Cross Electrical Engineering Group has won a pipeline of work totaling $90 million from the likes of Rio Tinto and other major mining and construction companies.

In a statement on the ASX, the group announced its SCEE Electrical, Heyday and Trivantage businesses added $90 million worth of work to its overall order book.

The electrical services arm has been engaged by Rio Tinto’s subsidiary Hamersley Iron to deliver a clarified water tank and pump station project at the Tom Price iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

The scope of work involves SCEE installing the electrical and piping infrastructure for the new pump station, which will replace the existing system currently in service.

The contractor has also been awarded an electrical and instrumentation package by CPB Contractors, owned by CIMIC Group, for work on BHP’s Mount Keith mining operations.

SCEE has secured a one-year contract extension on its agreement with CITIC Pacific Mining to provide electrical maintenance services at the Sino iron project also in the Pilbara.

Major construction company Multiplex added further work to its deal with SCEE’s subsidiary Heyday on the Western Syndey International Airport project.

The work is on top of the $100 million contract Heyday secured from Multiplex for the airport project in 2021.

The group also won a series of contracts for work on accommodation villages in Queensland for workforce accommodation suppliers Civeo and Ausco Modular.

The contractor’s subsidiary Heyday also won work from Hindmarsh Construction Australia and Snowy Hydro for work in Canberra and New South Wales, respectively.

“The range of these projects shows the sectoral and geographic diversity of the SCEE Group as it had now become,” SCEE Group managing director Graeme Dunn said.

“Adding these to other recent awards means we have announced over $200 million of new works over the last few weeks and consequently we are entering the 2024 financial year with a record order book for the group,”

The group’s shares were trading up 2.2 per cent to 69.5 cents at 1:20PM AWST.