Mining Infrastructure Underground Superintendent - 2:1
- Lead the day-to-day management of underground service contractors.
- Collaborate with stakeholders for operational readiness and underground production.
- Champion a safety-first culture ensuring compliance with legislation and standards.
With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, Southern Africa, Ghana, Philippines, Argentina and Peru, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.
Lycopodium is currently recruiting for a Mining Infrastructure Underground Superintendent on a 2:1 roster to join our new long-term gold project in Western Australia.
Reporting to the Construction Manager, this leading role encompasses compliance, contractor management, operational readiness and the delivery of onsite technical functions. You will develop and implement processes that ensure safe, efficient and sustainable operations.
The tasks you'll perform
- Lead the day-to-day management and performance of underground service contractors.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop and implement operational readiness for steady-state underground production.
- Safely deliver underground mine plans, schedules, physical targets, infrastructure requirements and budgets.
- Lead short-term mine planning and scheduling, including coordination of geotechnical, geological and surveying functions.
- Partner with corporate commercial and technical teams to support contracting strategies and mine planning.
- Build strong, productive relationships with contractors, fostering communication, collaboration and accountability.
- Champion a safety-first culture, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation, standards, policies and procedures.
The expertise you'll bring
- Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or a relevant mining discipline.
- Appropriate statutory underground mine management qualification/competency for the relevant jurisdiction (not mandatory)
- Significant experience in underground mining operations, infrastructure or mine development.
- Demonstrated experience managing underground contractors and multidisciplinary teams.
- Proven experience in mine planning, scheduling and operational readiness.
- Experience working with commercial, technical and corporate stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of relevant mining legislation, safety standards and industry practices.
- Current site-based mining experience with demonstrated leadership capability.
The benefits we'll provide
Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.
We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :
- Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
- Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
- Provide access to a benefits, rewards and recognition platform that also offers great discounts to hundreds of retailers in Australia.
- Provide employees with a variety of additional benefits such as coverage for professional memberships, 18 weeks full paid company maternity leave + superannuation continuance, discount and rewards programs, and much more.
Lycopodium is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and maintaining a discrimination free workplace, guided by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Diligence.
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