Superintendent Infrastructure | Mt Arthur Coal | Muswellbrook

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With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

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About Mt Arthur Coal

Mt Arthur Coal is an open-cut coal mine 100 per cent owned by BHP. Located in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales it's the largest producer of energy coal in the region, operating alongside olive growers, wine makers, horse breeders and the nearby residential community of Muswellbrook.

Our greatest asset is and has always been our people and communities, which is why we are committed to working together on our Pathway to 2030 - a program to responsibly close Mt Arthur Coal. We are about doing the right thing and working with everyone to co-create a shared vision for the future of the region.

About the Role

The Superintendent Infrastructure role at Mt Arthur Coal leads and coaches the infrastructure team across a broad span of control in the maintenance of plant and equipment and site infrastructure including a large light vehicle fleet, critical pumps, buildings, electrical reticulation and water systems across site.  This role offers challenge and variety due to the broad range of infrastructure along with a great team to provide leadership and guidance to.

This is role will be based at Muswellbrook working Monday to Friday, offering flexible working arrangements.

The work involved will use your leadership experience, contractor management knowledge and business acumen to achieve optimal maintenance and operational outcomes and cost-effective quality outcomes.

You will have a demonstrated commitment to safety and be a self-starter that has a drive for continuous improvement and ability to build effective working relationships with customers across all areas of the operation.

The role works beside the Planning & Reliability team overseeing the development, endorsement and approval of work schedules and is responsible for schedule compliance and breakdown management for the execution team who are largely trades based workforce. Experience in Work Management processes is essential (1SAP preferred).

Specifically, the role will manage and oversee delivery against performance targets and is responsible for:

• Fostering a safe working environment through field observations and verification of standards in line with maintenance protocols
• Developing and implementing performance targets for the team in alignment with organisational targets and monitors performance against metrics
• Implementing team processes to drive continuous improvement and maintenance strategies to optimise maintenance systems and performance
• Using risk management to ensure critical controls are operating as intended and builds a risk aware culture within the team

About You

• Experience in an aligned role with exposure to broad ranges of Infrastructure
• Demonstrated people leadership experience of operational teams
• Strong interpersonal skills to foster collaborative working relationships and influence positive business outcomes
• Ability to consolidate and analyse information, apply judgement and reach safe and cost-effective solutions swiftly
• Experience in contractor management
• Understanding of SAP as a work management system
• Continuous improvement mind-set and mature change management skillset
• Deep foundational leadership which supports team growth and development
• Strong communication skills and a track record of achieving results

On offer to you

This is a unique opportunity to have a rewarding career in a sought-after lifestyle location. Mt Arthur is a large, open-cut truck shovel operation, providing you with an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to technical problems.

Base in the scenic Hunter Valley, you will be minutes away from world-class restaurants and vineyards and a short distance away from the iconic beaches of Newcastle and Central Coast.

You will benefit from a rewarding career path and an excellent remuneration package inclusive of competitive salary, performance bonus, employee share options and a relocation package to take up a residential role in the Hunter Valley. 

Supporting a diverse workforce

At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people.

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.