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The people who do the work.

RMCE was founded in 2020 on a simple idea: the person you meet should be the person who does the work. No layers, no handing the job down once the contract is signed.

Our people

The people you'll actually be working with.

Between them, our team and associates have spent their careers inside Australia's water utilities, alliances and tier-one contractors.

Muhanad Rouqa

Muhanad Rouqa

Founder & Director

Muhanad founded RMCE in 2020 after 22 years across program and project management, alliance and bid management, risk, consulting and construction — with a record of delivering complex multi-million-dollar programs to time and budget.

He leads RMCE's engagements personally and stays on them through delivery.

  • Program delivery
  • Bid & tender management
  • Risk
  • Business transformation
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Joey Loke

Joey Loke

Technical Director — SA

Joey is a Chartered Professional Engineer with over 21 years in the planning, design and delivery of water infrastructure across Australia and internationally.

His expertise spans project and design management for seawater desalination, water and wastewater treatment, pipelines and pumping systems, with a technical background in process, mechanical and hydraulic engineering. He has led multidisciplinary projects from options assessment and concept development through detailed design and construction, alongside asset management, reliability engineering and technical risk assessment.

  • Desalination
  • Treatment & pipelines
  • Process & mechanical
  • Adelaide, SA
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Zoë Matheson

Zoë Matheson

Technical Director

Zoë brings 25 years in water process engineering, delivering process design for treatment plants, pipelines and pump stations across alliance and capital works environments.

Her expertise runs from coagulation, filtration and DAF through to membranes, UV, desalination, MBR and biogas treatment.

  • Process engineering
  • Treatment plants
  • Design
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Jim Aysh

Jim Aysh

Program Director

Jim has 25 years in energy, utilities and infrastructure across Australia, the Middle East, India and Malaysia, specialising in portfolio and program management.

He builds the budgets, risk strategies and delivery plans that hold multi-region programs together.

  • Portfolio management
  • Risk
  • International
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Partners

We bring in partners who share the same values as us.

Where a project needs capability beyond ours, we work with organisations chosen for how they work, not just what they can do — and we tell you who's doing what.

Engineering & design

NJSEI

Our engineering and design associate, giving RMCE access to a deep bench of water and wastewater design capability alongside our own delivery and advisory work.

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New partnership

Coming soon

We are finalising a further partnership to extend RMCE's capability. Details will be announced here shortly.

Why it works this way

Experience on your project, not just on the proposal.

Senior-led, from first meeting to handover.

FIRST MEETINGAWARDDESIGNDELIVERYHANDOVER HOW IT OFTEN GOES Senior lead rotates off after award WITH RMCE The same accountable lead, first meeting to handover.

Accountability that doesn't change hands

The person who scopes your project leads it through delivery. Accountability does not transfer to someone else once the contract is signed.

Straight answers early

We'd rather tell you a business case doesn't stack up than write a report that says nothing. Early, while it still changes the outcome.

Depth on call

Our wider team, partners and associates let us scale onto larger programs without changing who is accountable for your project.

Tell us what you're trying to build.

Send the brief, the problem, or just a question. You'll hear back from someone who has delivered this kind of work before.