This is a hands-on project delivery position with responsibility for managing electrical and engineering projects across workshop and customer mine sites.
You will work directly with customers, engineering teams, supervisors, tradespeople, suppliers and management to ensure projects are delivered safely, commercially and technically.
Depending on your background, the position can be structured around either a Project Manager or Project Engineer level appointment.
Projects may include:
- Underground electrical equipment overhauls and upgrades
- Flameproof substations, DCBs and electrical distribution equipment
- Belt starter and control system projects
- Electrical manufacturing and switchboard/control panel projects
- Underground equipment modifications and engineering upgrades
- Site installations and commissioning
- Compliance testing and electrical audits
- Shutdown and maintenance projects
- Equipment rebuilds and major workshop projects
- Customer-specific engineering and improvement projects
What You'll Be Responsible For
You will take ownership of projects from handover through engineering, procurement, production, testing, site delivery and close-out.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing project scope, programme, budget and commercial performance
- Developing project schedules, milestones and delivery plans
- Coordinating engineering, procurement, workshop production and site activities
- Working directly with mine-site engineering and maintenance personnel
- Managing customer communication, meetings, reporting and project expectations
- Reviewing drawings, specifications, scopes of work and technical documentation
- Identifying project risks and resolving issues before they impact delivery
- Coordinating labour, materials, subcontractors and suppliers
- Monitoring project costs, committed expenditure, labour hours and forecast cost to complete
- Managing RFIs, technical clarifications and customer approvals
- Identifying and managing scope changes and variations
- Supporting estimating and tender preparation for new projects
- Coordinating FATs, inspections, testing, commissioning and project handover
- Ensuring project documentation, quality records and MDR requirements are completed correctly
- Working closely with workshop supervisors and tradespeople to remove production constraints
- Conducting site visits and supporting installation and commissioning activities as required
- Ensuring projects comply with customer requirements, Australian Standards, procedures and applicable mining legislation
About You
Previous experience working within underground mining operations is essential.
You should understand how underground mining projects actually operate - the environment, equipment, safety expectations, operational pressures and the importance of getting equipment back into service.
Ideally, you will have experience in some combination of:
- Underground coal mining
- Electrical engineering or electrical projects
- Underground electrical distribution
- Flameproof and hazardous-area equipment
- Electrical control systems
- Mining maintenance or engineering departments
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