Join Norton and take advantage of these exciting opportunities to grow your career as an established gold miner. We look forward to welcoming you to our team
RESIDENTIAL LOCATION: Kalgoorlie
ROSTER: 5:2 - 9hrs (Residential Role Only)
PACKAGE: Salary + Performance Bonus + Residential Allowance + Site Allowance + Family Private Health Insurance or Allowance + Death and TPD Coverage or Allowance + Mental Health Programs + Gym Membership Discount + Other Benefits
ABOUT THE ROLE
Norton Gold Fields is seeking an experienced LV Maintenance Superintendent to provide senior leadership and operational oversight of our light vehicle and support equipment fleets across Paddington, Binduli, Golden Cities and Underground operations.
This role is critical to ensuring that light vehicles, light trucks, lighting towers, generator sets, and associated support equipment are maintained to the highest standards of safety, compliance, availability, and cost efficiency. You will lead geographically dispersed teams and contractors, translating strategic fleet objectives into consistent, high-quality frontline execution across all sites.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership & Team Management
* Lead and manage LV Supervisors, trades and contractors across all operations.
* Coach and develop supervisors and frontline teams to improve safety, quality and accountability.
* Maintain effective workforce planning, recruitment, leave management and coverage.
* Promote consistent standards, behaviours and expectations across sites.
Safety Leadership & WHS Compliance
* Ensure compliance with WHS Act 2020 (WA), regulations and site standards.
* Demonstrate visible safety leadership through field engagement and safety interactions.
* Enforce high-risk work controls, including permits, isolations, confined space and hot work.
* Lead and support incident investigations and close-out of corrective actions.
* Ensure contractor and vendor compliance with site safety and induction requirements.
Maintenance Execution & Reliability
* Oversee daily and weekly maintenance execution for LV and support equipment fleets.
* Ensure preventive maintenance compliance and timely defect rectification.
* Oversee tyre management practices, inspections and safe change-out activities.
* Drive reliability improvement and defect elimination initiatives with engineering support.
* Conduct regular field inspections to verify work quality and housekeeping standards.
Stakeholder Engagement
* Partner with Open Pit and Underground Operations to ensure fleet availability supports production.
* Liaise with OEMs, contractors and service providers to meet performance KPIs and scope requirements.
Budget, Reporting & Performance
* Manage LV maintenance cost centres, including labour, parts, consumables and contractor services.
* Monitor performance and costs through AMT/SAP, providing variance analysis.
* Contribute to annual budgets, forecasts and cost-reduction initiatives.
* Support fleet rationalisation and standardisation to reduce lifecycle costs.
* Report on fleet availability, compliance and performance metrics.
ABOUT YOU
Qualifications
* S26 Ticket
* WA C Class Driver's Licence (essential).
* Mechanical or Electrical Trade qualification in heavy plant.
* Certificate IV Leadership / Frontline Management (desirable).
* Senior First Aid (desirable).
Experience & Skills
* 5+ years' experience in an LV or Mobile Maintenance Superintendent (or similar) role in mining.
* Experience working in open-pit and/or underground mining environments.
* Strong contractor management and commercial administration experience.
* High competence with CMMS systems (AMT & SAP highly desirable).
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Strong computer literacy (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
BENEFITS
* Permanent full-time role with an immediate start.
* Excellent remuneration package with additional allowances.
* Receive a $12k residential allowance per annum if you are residential and not FIFO.
* Receive up to $5k site allowance per annum, depending on your site location.
* Receive up to 15% short-term incentive payment (STIP) of your base salary.
* A fully covered family private health insurance through GU Health Complete Gold Cover or allowance up to $5k.
* A fully covered Death and Total & Permanent Disability (TPD) insurance or allowance up to $2.4k.
* Pro-rata long service leave (LSL) after just 5 years of service and be entitled to 13 weeks paid LSL after 10 years of service.
* Work with a team that prioritises safety.
WHY NORTON GOLD FIELDS?
Norton Gold Fields is one of Australia's largest domestic gold producers, with a recent annual production of over 260,000 ounces. The Company has a mining and processing complex in Western Australia's world-class Kalgoorlie goldfield region, including a highly prospective tenement package of more than 1,000km² surrounding the 3.8Mtpa Paddington Mill. Norton recently expanded production capability by commissioning the Binduli North Heap Leach Project.
Our vision is to be the leading gold producer, setting the industry benchmark in safety, teamwork, innovation, operational efficiency, and cost control.
Norton currently has a range of opportunities across multiple long-term projects in the Goldfields region, all conveniently located just 10-45 minutes from town.
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Norton is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Australian Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for our roles, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability.