Superintendent - Engineering

Challenge yourself with us

Newcrest is one of the world's largest gold mining companies. As a global business, we aim to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, valued and supported to bring their whole unique self to work.

We recognise that our different backgrounds and perspectives help us find better ways to: solve problems; attract and retain the best people; explore, develop and produce more gold safely and profitably; and help make Newcrest a better place to work.

At Newcrest, we hold core values that focus on caring about people, working together and achieving a high-performance culture through innovation and problem solving.

Operations near and far

Located in the Great Sandy Desert in the East Pilbara region of WA, Telfer is a short two-hour flight from Perth. Working as a fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) operation, comprising of open pit and underground, you'll be working 8 days on, 6 days off lifestyle. While at site Telfer offers a diverse range of recreational activities including a gym, swimming pool, driving range, movie room, and refurbished communal eatery.

Who we're looking for

We are seeking a highly collaborative electrical or mechanical engineering team leader to provide operational direction to a team of 18 direct reports, ensuring our resources, capacity, and our capability are aligned to the work plans.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Managing and building a safe working environment for a team of electrical, mechanical, maintenance, reliability, condition monitoring engineers and technicians.
• Ownership of the asset health and condition management program.
• Responsibility for the Statutory and engineering compliance of our assets.
• Accountability for the loss and defect management process and improvement activities, to deliver required asset performance and cost uplift.
• Accountability for tactics management and improvement including reviewing the long-term maintenance strategies.
• Supporting the material risk and process safety programs.
• Supporting asset performance budgeting and forecasting processes.

To succeed and thrive in this role you'll come from a strong leadership background, with demonstrated experience working in the mining/heavy industry in a senior engineering or reliability position. We are looking for a competent communicator and influencer and someone who is familiar with working in a highly collaborative environment.

Other experiences and skills you will bring are:

• Experience facilitating a process to identify, investigate, and monitor key reliability risks across a site.
• Experience conducting engineering and asset integrity audits.
• Optimising costs through budgeting, cost control, and the delivery of cost optimisation projects.
• Have experience building maturity and defining and imbedding sustainable processes and short interval control practices related to the engineering, asset health and reliability discipline.
• Exceptional communication skills and people coaching capabilities.

The requirement is to be engineering degree qualified for this role, with preference to mechanical as an advantage but not essential.

Our commitment to you

Newcrest's commitment to diversity and inclusion respects both the rights of every individual to work to their highest potential, free of discrimination, as well as the cultures, religions and governing codes applicable to each country in which we operate.

If you share our values and feel that you could make a meaningful difference in this role, please apply online before the advertised application closing date.