Maintenance Engineer

At Newmont, our purpose is to create value and improve lives through sustainable and responsible mining. One of the largest gold companies in the world, we pride ourselves on our dedication to safety, environmental management, inclusion and diversity, and adding value and opportunity to our host communities.

Newmont Tanami is on Aboriginal freehold land 540km northwest of Alice Springs. It is a long-life, low-cost, world-class asset in a core Newmont region.

The Tanami Expansion 2 project, aims to extend the mine life beyond 2040, investing in a hoisting shaft which will increase the production of the underground mine from 2.6 Mtpa to 3.2 Mtpa.  Both the successful exploration within the underground operation and implementation of the first Tanami Expansion has laid the foundation to further develop the operation to remain a major contributor to the Newmont portfolio. 

Technical Services provides global support to Newmont and its operating businesses across a range of specialised technical functions. Within Technical Services, the Asset Management (AM) function is responsible for creating and implementing effective global asset strategies, delivering efficient asset planning and strategic insights to drive exceptional global asset performance across Newmont’s portfolio.  

As part of this Asset Management Team, the Maintenance Engineer is a site-based role reporting centrally and will support our Tanami team with subject matter expertise and support in rolling out recommendations from Reliability Engineers and specialised global programs including Hydrocarbon Management and Asset Integrity.
 

Responsibilities

• Provide support to site with technical maintenance engineering/advising needs including facilitating and overseeing technical inspections, managing technical vendors on sites, and providing guidance to scope out complex maintenance work.
• Drive site implementation of best practices and standards developed by Reliability Engineers and subject matter expert groups within the AM OSN including Hydrocarbon Management and Asset Integrity.
• Communicate global AM best practices and technical vision at a site level.
• Demonstrate proactive leadership in achieving a global Newmont culture of safety and health and actively promote Newmont’s safety standards and improvement initiatives.
• Implement solutions for gaps or challenges faced by site AM teams relating to maintenance engineering support.
• Ensure site AM teams are supported with best-in-class technical support when planning complex tasks, selecting, and managing technical vendors, and conducting inspections.
• Providing training of site personnel to support Asset Management programs including hydrocarbon management and condition monitoring. 
• Lead inspections and root cause analysis investigations at site. 
• Identify and mitigate challenges at sites relating to execution and governance of global reliability engineering, hydrocarbon management, and asset integrity programs and recommendations.
• Act as site champion for Asset Management programs. 

Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, a technical diploma, or equivalent industry experience.
• Understanding of reliability principles and data driven insights.
• Significant post graduate experience in heavy industry.
• Experience with manual and computerized maintenance planning systems.
• Experience with change, communication and knowledge management methodologies.
• Experience in implementing Asset Management principles and best practices across multiple sites.
• Experience using analytical tools and processes that improve Asset Management performance, reliability, and safety, reducing operating costs and maximizing return on assets. 
• Experience with root cause analysis of production loss and development of successful solutions to reduce losses.
• Experience facilitating statutory / regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and ability to drive performance improvement initiatives in a complex and global organization.
• An ability to quickly assess information to diagnose problems and opportunities, with a track record of strong professional judgement and critical thinking.
• An ability to manage tasks both in-person and virtually.
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders across different functions and between site and central teams.
• Demonstrated ability to create data-driven business decisions.
   

We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

Applications Close Wednesday September  27, 2023

About Newmont

Our business success comes from the accomplishments and well-being of our employees and contractors. Our goal is to build a workplace culture that allows every person to thrive, participate, grow, and proudly play an active role in achieving our strategy.

Newmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, placing and promoting the best individual for each position without regard to personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, social and indigenous origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, etc.

We invite women and applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply, particularly persons of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island descent. Newmont acknowledges Aboriginal people as the first Australians and respects their unique relationship with the land and sea, their culture, spiritual tradition and stories.

More About Newmont

• Website: http://www.newmont.com
• Lifecycle of a Mine: https://www.newmont.com/lifecycle-of-a-mine/
• Blog: https://www.newmont.com/blog-stories/
• Annual sustainability report: https://www.newmont.com/sustainability/sustainability-reporting/

Consistent with Newmont’s values of safety and responsibility, we believe that COVID-19 vaccination, as well as other vaccinations that are required or recommended for entry into certain Newmont operating countries, protect the health and safety of Newmont’s workforce and the communities in which we work and live.  As a result, please note that Newmont requires up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination for any international travel by the workforce undertaken on behalf of the company.  In addition, other vaccinations (e.g., yellow fever vaccine) may be required for international travel to certain Newmont operating countries. Newmont will consider individual requests for exemption/reasonable accommodation by applicants who cannot be fully vaccinated due to medical reasons or other grounds protected by applicable human rights law. Newmont may update its vaccination policies/requirements at any time in its sole discretion.

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