Title:  Reliability & Planning Superintendent

Requisition ID:  3164
Department: 

Excellent career opportunity for a senior Reliability & Planning professional to join our Meandu operations at Superintendent level.

 

About Us:

BUMA's vision is to build a modern mining and rehabilitation company that drives growth. BUMA Australia adopts a relationship-focused, long-term strategy for project success. We consistently deliver value to clients throughout all mining stages, leveraging expertise and equipment for comprehensive surface operation services.

 

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Reliability & Planning Superintendent to lead the reliability, maintenance planning and asset management functions at Meandu Mine. This role is critical in ensuring the optimal performance, availability and longevity of mining equipment and infrastructure through proactive reliability engineering, condition monitoring and asset technology.

 

Key responsibilities include:

  • Lead the site reliability and planning team to deliver equipment availability and reliability
  • Develop and implement reliability strategies
  • Oversee the maintenance planning and scheduling process
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime and maintenance costs
  • Manage and interpret condition monitoring data to inform maintenance decisions
  • Collaborate with OEMs, vendors, and internal stakeholders
  • Utilise asset technology to enhance maintenance performance.
  • Ensure compliance with safety, environmental and statutory requirements
  • Provide technical mentoring and leadership to engineers and maintenance personnel

 

About You: 

  • Tertiary qualifications in Maintenance Engineering (Mechanical, Engineering, Mechatronics etc) or Maintenance trade background
  • 5+ years’ experience in maintenance related roles. Experience with mobile assets essential
  • Maintenance planning experience or on-site mining experience in an operational maintenance role desirable
  • Asset health and condition-based maintenance experience
  • Analytical capability, with knowledge of fundamental reliability analysis techniques including RCA, FMEA and Predictive Maintenance tools
  • Strong computer literacy including Microsoft Office Suite, SAP, Power BI dashboard development and project management tools
  • Demonstrated positive safety leadership skills and behaviour
  • Strong people leadership, communication and organisational skills

 

Working at BUMA:

BUMA Australia is a people focused business, with a strong emphasis on safety, training, development and continuous improvement. As a BUMA Meandu employee you will have access to:

  • Lifestyle roster (Monday to Friday, Monday to Thursday)
  • Share house accommodation
  • Career progression opportunities
  • Discounted employee benefits on health insurance, groceries, fuel and set retail outlets with BUMA LAB.

 

Meandu Mine

BUMA Australia provides a total mine service to Stanwell Corporation’s Meandu Mine to deliver coal to the adjacent Tarong power station. We are responsible for both managing and operating the mine.

Services provided include planning, drilling, overburden removal, coal mining, coal processing, rehabilitation, and maintenance of mobile and fixed plant. The project uses a combination of dragline and truck-and shovel operations. Meandu Mine currently has five working pits, with sufficient coal to fuel the stations until at least 2037.

To be considered for this opportunity please click "Apply Now" to submit your application!

All final applicants for this position will be asked to consent to a police check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits.

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