Superintendent Maintenance Execution | Nickel West | Kalgoorlie | 5:2
BHP
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Come and be a part of this success.
About Nickel West
Nickel West is a fully integrated mine-to-market business. Our culture is rich with technical know-how, highly efficient and focused on innovation. The business employs over 2500 people from five operations across Western Australia comprising of nickel underground and open-cut mines, concentrators, a smelter and a refinery. We also have plans to expand our operations with new mines in the northern Goldfields and a large nickel sulphate plant in Kwinana to capitalise on growing demand in the battery materials sector. As the world’s largest producer of nickel briquettes and nickel powder, Nickel West is leading the new-energy revolution in Western Australia.
Nickel West has an exciting future ahead. We invite you to join us at Nickel West as we seek to energize our future.
About the Role
Reporting to the Manager Maintenance and based in Kalgoorlie, you will provide leadership, guidance and technical support to the Services Maintenance team supporting the Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter. Your focus will be ensuring the improvement of maintenance performance through the quality execution of maintenance activities. In this role you will also:
- Demonstrate a commitment to safety by actively engaging in the BHP Field Leadership program.
- Promote and coach operational discipline and high performance in work execution and enhance the technical knowledge of team members.
- Drive a mindset of pride in workmanship in the team in order to eliminate repeat failures.
- Ensuring all teams follow our safety systems and procedures and coach and mentor all teams through appropriate field leadership.
- Ensures the monitoring and controlling process drives improvement in performance metrics.
- Support your team in identifying and scoping of corrective maintenance work.
- Implement Continuous Improvement activities that support long term improvement of plant reliability.
- Deliver BOS principles with all teams and driving improvement in all areas.
- Effectively engage with other departments and external parties to ensure that pathways are provided for success.
- Provide inputs into plans, budgets, and targets for the projects and ensure delivery against them.
- Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible safety leader, engaging, developing and coaching your team.
About You
To be impactful in this role, you are an experienced maintenance and leader with the skills and desire to drive improvements. Preferably, you would have a strong maintenance background, including experience in high-speed rotating equipment. You will have a proven collaborative style with a key focus on strong team performance, stakeholder engagement and reliable delivery of value to the operation.
In addition, we are ideally looking for the following skills and experience:
- Tertiary qualified (Engineering) or relevant maintenance experience in process plants.
- Significant experience in leadership roles of large teams.
- Experience working in major hazard facilities or complex plants will be advantageous.
- Proven track record of working with external and functional teams.
- A proven track record in safety management.
- Demonstrated success building cohesive and effective teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Solution-focused with the ability to work well under pressure.
- Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal.
- Deep foundational leadership which supports team growth and development.
- A continuous improvement mindset.
About Our Process
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Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.
At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
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