Electrical Coordinator Shutdowns | Newman Operations | FIFO 8/6 7/7
Australia
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About the role:
As an Electrical Shutdown Coordinator, you will be responsible for the end-to-end planning, coordination, and execution of fixed plant shutdowns within our Newman Operations team. You will work closely with maintenance, processing and contractor teams to ensure shutdowns are completed safely, efficiently and on schedule, while minimising operational impact.
Located at Newman Operations, this position is offered on a FIFO (8/6 roster) or Residential basis, back-to-back with our existing site Shutdown Coordinators.
Reporting to the Shutdown Lead, key responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute detailed shutdown plans for fixed plant maintenance activities
- Coordinate shutdown activities for electrical resources including the development of High Voltage (HV) Task Specific Isolation Lists (TSIL) Manage schedules, budgets and risks (safety & production) to optimise shutdown performance
- Liaise with commercial and logistics teams to ensure timely availability of materials and equipment
- Drive a strong safety culture by being an effective safety mentor in field
- Conduct post-shutdown reviews to identify continuous improvement opportunities
- Manage improvement initiatives to continuously close identified performance gaps
- Ensuring compliance with BHP safety standards, policies and procedures
- Ensure that all statutory electrical requirements are met during shutdown execution
About you:
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- Experience in maintenance coordination within the mining, resources, or heavy industry sector
- Experience in project management within the mining or resource sector
- Strong knowledge of fixed plant maintenance and shutdown best practices
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and work in high-pressure environments
- A commitment to safety management and operational excellence
- Proficiency in SAP, Microsoft Projects, or similar planning tools
- Electrical trade qualification or electrical engineering is required
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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.
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