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The Opportunity
Thiess are seeking an experienced Planning Superintendent for a permanent employment opportunity.
As Planning Superintendent, you will be joining our team at our Curragh North Project, located 30kms from Blackwater in Central QLD where you will play a vital role in ensuring the efficient and effective maintenance planning and execution of our mining operations.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of a well-established workforce that is focused on developing a strong performance culture and a culture that values everyone's contribution equally. You will thrive on meeting all goals and challenges, and act with fairness and integrity in all that you do.
About the role
As our next Maintenance Planning Superintendent, you will be responsible for developing and implementing maintenance strategies, optimizing equipment reliability, and managing the maintenance planning team. You will collaborate closely with various departments, including operations, engineering, procurement, and maintenance, to drive continuous improvement and maximize equipment availability.
Working an 5/2,4/3 roster and reporting to the Maintenance Manager, your duties will include:
- Provide leadership and mentoring to a team of mobile maintenance planners, to ensure short, medium, and long-term maintenance plans are developed and delivered.
- Utilising the Maintenance Management System to generate Planned Maintenance and Major Component repair cost budgets
- Liaising with internal and external suppliers to ensure the parts process is organised and staged for a given maintenance scheduled week.
- Monitoring and Maintaining unit known work list Defect Reporting System and the on-site Condition Analysis Systems to ensure information is used to update the maintenance and service schedules
- Liaise with Maintenance Supervisors to ensure short, medium, and long-term maintenance strategic objectives and key projects for Curragh works are communicated to maintenance crews during the daily meetings.
- Provide clear performance expectations to direct reports and reinforce correct behaviour through feedback recognition and encouragement
- Implement training and development needs for all direct reports
- Minimising plant costs through continually investigating alternative suppliers for competitive pricing
As a successful applicant, you'll be a high-achieving team-focused individual who enjoys delivering results in a dynamic environment. Your exceptional relationship-building skills coupled with your ability to engage and collaborate effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders will also ensure your success in this role.
- Mechanical trade or tertiary qualifications
- Previous Plant Management experience preferable within the mining industry
- Knowledge of job-specific computer programs essential (JDE preferred)
- Thiess' commitment to ongoing training & development
- Full camp facilities provided - or living out of camp allowance, if applicable
- Travel allowance for DIDO employees
- Salary sacrifice options - novated leasing & flights
- Range of corporate discounts including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products
Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.
The pioneering spirit of our founders - the legendary Thiess brothers - is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.
At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining.
We're creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning - supporting our people to contribute to Thiess' success and continued growth in sustainable mining.
We'll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers.
We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of everyone matters always. We're focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included and empowered.
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How to Apply
This role is an opportunity to take the next step in your career. With our culture of recognition, development, and a stimulating and satisfying work environment, there is no better time to join Thiess.
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Thiess follows a Pre-Employment Process for all successful applicants, which includes two employment references, a National Police Check and a medical assessment. These checks are essential to your application, and your recruiter will support you through the process.
