Superintendent Utilities - Telfer

Challenge yourself with us

Leverage your wealth of experience and successful partnerships in this career defining role working for a global leader in gold mining.

Explore the unknown

Newcrest is committed to building a diverse workforce. Our strategic focus is on gender diversity and diversity to reflect the communities in which we operate. Creating an inclusive culture will enable us to leverage the richness of cultures across our workforce and the capability of our diverse employees to get better business outcomes.

Our technical expertise is something we are quietly proud of. Through our investment in research and development, we have advanced the technical development of our mining methods, achieving operational efficiencies. Whether you are part of our offices, or at one of our sites near or far, you will find so much more than you expect.

Who we’re looking for

Reporting into the Manager of Operations Support, the primary purpose of this position is to provide safe, efficient and cost-effective maintenance and operational control of Telfer’s Utilities section in accordance with legal requirements and company objectives. You’ll be providing leadership and operational direction to the Utilities work teams, ensuring resources, capacity and capability are aligned to the work plans.

This is a FIFO full time role from Perth on an 8days on 6days off roster. 

Additionally, you will be responsible for the Utilities performance reporting and documentation and have the rewarding challenge to drive and monitor continuous improvement initiatives focused on value and cost reduction.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Ensuring the reliability of assets through loss accounting, failure analysis and the delivery of reliability improvement projects
• Reviewing and approving shutdown strategies in co-operation with operations, reliability and planning sections
• Driving and monitoring plant system availability and reliability
• Maintaining in good operational condition all plant, equipment and associated infrastructure in the underground section area
• Strong working knowledge of SAP, Excel and Word essential
• Ability to communicate effectively (Verbal and Written) at all levels
• Ability to run meetings with key stakeholders

To succeed in this role, you will be safety focused, self-motivated and have strong time management skills.  You will have expert technical capability combined with highly developed written and verbal communication skills.

Ideally you will have been in a Superintendent or Leadership position previously and have experience in a technical and maintenance background.

An advantage for this role, you may also have had exposure to:

• A risk management framework
• Safety management systems
• A self-starter approach, ambition to create continuous improvement opportunities and a value add attitude!
• Manual drivers licence (Essential)
• Attention to detail
• Experience in a leadership role
• Trade Qualified Certificate
• Fire systems exposure/experience
• Experience in the maintenance sector
• Strong technical Mechanical or Electrical background with power management, high voltage systems and water networks.
• Cert IV qualification in Instrumentation (Favourable)

We are looking for a strong communicator and influencer and someone who is familiar with working in a highly collaborative environment with a strong emphasis on innovation and best practise.

Our commitment to you

Ownership is part of how we work. You will be part of a high-performance culture that is building our future. While structure and processes guide how we work, we continue to find opportunities to be nimble and collaborative.

Newcrest is also committed to building a diverse workforce. Our strategic focus is on gender diversity and diversity to reflect the communities in which we operate. Creating an inclusive culture will enable us to leverage the richness of cultures across our workforce and the capability of our diverse employees to get better business outcomes.

If you are seeking a new career challenge, where you can transfer your existing skills, into a positive and empowering team environment, we’d love to hear from you!

At this stage, we are not accepting any external agency CVs for the opportunity.

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