HSEQ Superintendent - Underground
Macmahon
Macmahon is seeking an experienced HSEQ Superintendent to support our underground team and provide strong leadership in safety, environment and quality performance. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive safety professional who thrives in dynamic operational environments and enjoys building capability across teams.
About the Role
Reporting to the Project Manager, you will lead HSEQ functions onsite and partner closely with operational leaders to ensure compliance, manage critical risks, and influence positive safety culture.
Roster options:
✔ 4/3 FIFO
✔ 4/3, 8/6 FIFO
Key responsibilities include:
• Provide expert HSEQ guidance to the Project Manager and project personnel.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, Standards, and company expectations.
• Monitor HSEQ performance, identify risks, and implement effective mitigation strategies.
• Conduct audits, inspections and verifications, ensuring timely close out of actions.
• Facilitate incident and event investigations, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Deliver engaging training programs to build capability across site teams.
• Produce accurate, timely HSEQ reporting for site and corporate leadership.
• Build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will bring strong technical capability and confident leadership across safety and operational environments.
We are looking for:
• Experience in HSEQ Superintendent or supervisory roles within mining or heavy industry.
• Diploma in Work Health and Safety or equivalent
• Cert IV in Training and Assessing
• Strong coaching, mentoring and capability building skills.
• Proven ability to plan, prioritise and manage workloads in a busy operational setting.
• Experience with Integrated Management Systems and risk management tools.
• Solid understanding of critical risks and principal mining hazard identification.
• Experience in leading and facilitating ICAM investigations
• Proficiency with HSEQ reporting systems and data analysis software.
Employee benefits
Ongoing career development opportunities - Challenge. Develop. Grow.
Dedicated lifestyle, financial and mental health support
Salary sacrifice options for flights, vehicles, airport parking and A LOT more
Access to a wide range of employee discounts with Macmahon retail, vehicle, insurance and banking partners
Be More at Macmahon
Across Macmahon’s team, you will find positive stories of people embracing opportunities to develop and grow their careers going on to celebrate impressive career milestones that contribute to our success. With over 9,000 highly skilled people in our team, we’re proud of the values-based culture we have built over 60 years which is the driving force propelling our people to continually aspire to Be More.
About Macmahon
Macmahon is a leading Australian contract mining company with projects throughout Australia and Southeast Asia. Delivering a comprehensive range of surface and underground mining, civil design and construction, performance enhancement, and mine site maintenance and rehabilitation services to the resources sector.
Recruitment process
Successful applicants must pass a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol screening, as well as criminal history and qualification checks. Proof of working rights in Australia (valid passport, birth certificate, and citizenship certificate
Macmahon is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages suitably qualified women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to apply.
Macmahon Winning Values
United | Integrity | Courage | Pride