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About the Role

Do you thrive on delivering mine operations results through creating a high-performing team? Due to a recent internal move, we now have an opportunity for a passionate operational leader in the role of Operations Superintendent. This is a permanent, Monday to Friday role with the luxury of returning home from site each day. Reporting to the Huntly Production Manager, you'll collaborate with other Superintendents to enhance safety and production within your area. Your focus will be on establishing and maintaining operational standards to continually improve mine site safety, environmental controls, cost, quality, and production efficiency. Leading both internal teams (Supervisors and operational crews on 12-hour shifts) and external contractors, you'll be responsible for their safety and contract management. You'll also direct functional support staff, strategically coordinate production shifts, and work closely with the mine site maintenance team to optimize equipment use and availability.

Key Responsibilities

- Maximise equipment utilisation through coaching on safe and efficient operation, proper daily inspections, and corrective action to prevent incidents.
- Monitor and coordinate equipment use to ensure optimal performance.
- Direct production by monitoring, controlling, and optimising processes to meet specifications and targets.
- Implement procedures to ensure continuous equipment availability and achieve production goals.
- Manage shift handovers with thorough reporting and planning to minimise operational impact.
- Develop and review contingency plans to maintain production levels.
- Lead, coordinate, supervise, and coach production teams to achieve targets.
- Ensure compliance with all legal, environmental, occupational health, safety, and risk management standards.
- Demonstrate strong organisational, time management, and communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to build professional relationships, supervise and train others, work independently or as part of a team.

What’s on offer

- Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.
- Parental leave support for all caregivers.




- Employee assistance program for personal support services.
- One additional paid Alcoa Flexi Day.
- Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.
- Salary packaging for a novated car lease, employee share plan and superannuation options.

What you can bring to the role

- Collaborative leadership style with a track record in developing others to achieve their full potential and to deliver results through others.
- Experienced in engaging a diverse team and fostering an inclusive, safety-focused work culture.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of strategic thinking, planning, problem solving skills, coordination and versatility.
- An advocate for continuous improvement and skilled change leader.
- Effective communication and influencing skills across all levels of the business.
- Relevant surface mining experience with heavy mobile equipment, supported by a relevant degree qualification would be desirable though not essential.
- You should hold or be willing to complete Schedule 26 - Statutory Supervisor accreditation. Alcoa will provide support in obtaining accreditation.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in a leadership position or have worked in a similar operation or industry to Alcoa.

About the Location

Huntly is one of our two bauxite mines in Western Australia. Established in 1976 and located east of North Dandalup in WA, it is the world’s second largest bauxite mine, supplying ore to Alcoa’s Pinjarra alumina refinery. Bauxite ore from Alcoa’s Huntly and Willowdale mines helps to produce almost half of Australia’s alumina and approximately 19 per cent of Australia’s aluminium.

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📌 Operations Superintendent (North Dandalup)
🏢 Alcoa of Australia
📍 North Dandalup