Workplace Type: Onsite
About Newmont
Newmont is the world’s leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc, lead and molybdenum. The company’s world-class portfolio of assets, prospects and talent is anchored in favourable mining jurisdictions in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and North America.
Newmont is the only gold producer listed in the S&P 500 Index and is widely recognized for its principled environmental, social and governance practices. The company is an industry leader in value creation, supported by robust safety standards, superior execution and technical proficiency. Newmont was founded in 1921 and has been publicly traded since 1925.
Your work environment
Newmont Boddington is a world-class gold and copper operation located within the Saddleback greenstone belt in Western Australia, approximately 130 kilometres southeast of Perth and 16 kilometres from the rural farming town of Boddington.
Situated on 33,000 hectares of land traditionally owned by the Wiilman people of the Noongar nation, Boddington is a drive-in, drive-out site that offers employees the opportunity to live locally or in Western Australia’s southwest.
This permanent position will be offered on a drive in, drive out 8/6 roster comprised of 12 hour day shifts only with mine village accommodation provided for those who do not go home every night.
Your impact
Reporting to the Superintendent Non-Process Infrastructure, this position is responsible for supervising and coordinating all NPI maintenance activities across site operations. The role provides frontline leadership to ensure safe, compliant and efficient execution of planned, scheduled and breakdown maintenance activities within a mining environment.
As part of our team you will
- Supervise NPI Maintenance Staff: Lead, mentor, and oversee a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently and safely.
- Supervise the execution of planned, scheduled and breakdown work orders across multiple trades
- Maintain all NPI assets on site, including hydrocarbons and waste management infrastructure
- Assist with planning of maintenance tasks and scoping of improvement projects
- Liaise with site personnel on safety, performance and technical matters
- Be accountable for meeting departmental KPIs through effective execution of daily and weekly work management schedules, ability to develop and drive strategies to improve maintenance services to achieve KPI and compliance targets
- Conduct daily workshop, infrastructure and equipment inspections to support continuous improvement
- Maintain site electrical compliance in accordance with statutory and company requirements
- Ensure team compliance with all company, legislative and statutory safety and environmental regulations
- Maintain inventory, tooling, test equipment and stock levels
- Promote a safe and positive culture within your team
Prerequisites for your success in the role
- Australian-recognised Electrical Trade Qualification with a WA Electrical Licence
- Schedule 26 Statutory Supervisor Certificate or willingness to obtain
- Current Electrical Nominee’s Licence
- Demonstrated electrical supervisory experience with strong hands-on technical capability
- Proven leadership and performance management experience within a mining environment
- Sound knowledge of AS 3000 Electrical Standards
- Experience with change management processes
- SAP experience (highly regarded)
- Instrumentation experience (advantageous)
- Current WA Manual Driver’s Licence
- Strong communication skills with the ability to multitask and proactively manage competing priorities
- High Voltage switching ticket desirable but not essential
We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
Our business success comes from the accomplishments and well-being of our employees and contractors. Our goal is to build a workplace culture that allows every person to thrive, participate, grow, and proudly play an active role in achieving our strategy.
Newmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, placing and promoting the best individual for each position without regard to personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, social and indigenous origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, etc.
We invite women and applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply, particularly First Nations persons of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island descent. Newmont acknowledges First Nations People and respects their enduring connection to Country from which their culture, spirituality, and identity flow
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