Reliability & Planning Superintendent Job Opportunity
The Reliability & Planning Superintendent is a key role within our organization, responsible for ensuring the reliability and productivity of our equipment. This position plays a critical part in driving business performance and achieving our strategic objectives.
Job Description
As a Reliability & Planning Superintendent, you will be accountable for owning the end-to-end work management process, including scope, planning, resource allocation, and scheduling. You will be responsible for building quality job plans, managing backlogs and priorities, preparing shutdowns, and coordinating with supervisors, tradespeople, and operations teams.
* Drive discipline in SAP and accurate work coding
* Lead the reliability strategy for mobile, field, and ancillary fleets
* Collaborate with maintenance, operations, and OEMs to drive root cause analysis, optimize preventative maintenance, and component strategies
* Ensure critical risks are understood and controlled
You will deliver safer, more reliable, and productive equipment performance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve business outcomes.
Required Skills and Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you will require:
* Strong safety leadership skills with excellent hazard identification and proactive critical-risk management
* Advanced verbal and written communication skills to influence and align stakeholders
* Proven leadership and team-building capability, lifting planning, reliability, and work-management discipline
* High commercial acumen with budgeting, cost-control, and lifecycle asset-management focus
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to interpret fleet health, performance, and cost data
* Advanced computer skills, including confident use of SAP/CMMS, Excel, and reporting tools
* Ability to model professional behavior, set clear expectations, and maintain accountability
* Continuous-improvement mindset with experience embedding improved processes and standards
* Effective stakeholder-management skills with operations, maintenance, warehouse, and OEMs/contractors
* Mentoring, coaching, and developing staff into high-performing teams
* Ability to build productive internal and external relationships
* Extensive maintenance planning and scheduling experience for mobile, field, and ancillary equipment in mining
* Proven track record improving equipment reliability
* Strong work-management capability: quality job plans and priority management
* Competent CMMS user (SAP or similar) for work management, master data, history, and reporting
* Experience developing, managing, and tracking maintenance and repair budgets, including forecasting
* Demonstrated ability to set objectives, KPIs, and standards and hold teams accountable
Benefits
This role offers a range of benefits, including:
* Salary continuance and life insurance
* 20 weeks paid primary carer parental leave with no waiting period
* Subsidized private health insurance
* Fitness passport – discounted workplace health and fitness program
* Study assistance
* Flexible work arrangements
* Employee Assistance Program
* Access to financial education and banking discounts
* Salary packaging including novated leasing and remote area benefits
* Service recognition rewards
* Discounts program including major department stores, cinemas, restaurants
Seniority Level and Employment Type
This is a mid-senior level, full-time position within our organization.
Industries
This role is based in the mining industry.
EEO Statement
We value diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds, including First Nations people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and people that identify as LGBTQIA+.