About the opportunity

Boton Guinea is seeking an experienced Site Superintendent – Conveyor Maintenance to support conveyor belt maintenance and associated services on a 6/3 roster at the Simandou Mine Processing Plant in Guinea .

This is a senior, site-based leadership role responsible for the safe and effective day-to-day execution of conveyor belt maintenance, inspection, repair, splicing, component support and breakdown-response activities.

Reporting to the Contract Manager, you will lead supervisors, leading hands, trade crews and field-support personnel while ensuring work is properly planned, resourced, controlled and completed to the required safety, quality and productivity standards.

Key responsibilities

You will:

- Translate approved maintenance plans into executable daily and weekly work fronts.
- Coordinate scheduled maintenance, inspections, repairs, belt splicing and breakdown support.
- Maintain appropriate core-crew, after-hours and escalation coverage.
- Allocate supervisors, leading hands and crews according to competency, risk and work priority.
- Review conveyor defects, belt damage, tracking issues, splice condition, cleaners, skirts, pulleys and lagging.
- Determine practical repair strategies and escalate engineering requirements where necessary.
- Ensure vulcanising equipment, splice environments and quality hold points are correctly managed.
- Coordinate work orders, access, parts, permits, isolations and close-out requirements.
- Maintain field action registers, constraints logs and effective shift handovers.
- Coach supervisors and employees to maintain consistent technical and behavioural standards.
- Enforce fatigue-management, PPE, housekeeping, timekeeping and conduct requirements.
- Support the development and progression of Guinean employees.

About you

You will have:

- At least eight years’ conveyor belt maintenance experience.
- Strong experience in belt change-outs, splicing, repairs, inspections and shutdown work.
- A mechanical trade qualification,



conveyor-specialist background or equivalent fixed-plant qualification.
- Previous senior supervisory or superintendent-level experience.
- Strong knowledge of conveyor belts, splices, pulleys, idlers, cleaners, skirts, tracking systems, take-ups and drives.
- Experience planning manpower, equipment, cranes, permits, isolations and shutdown activities.
- Strong understanding of critical-risk controls and safe isolation practices.
- Experience with SAP, RTBS or comparable maintenance-management systems.
- Robust written reporting and shift-handover capability.
- Professional working proficiency in English.

French-language capability will be highly regarded, particularly for local workforce communication, coaching and training.

Mobilisation requirements

Appointment will be subject to:

- Medical and fitness-for-work clearance.
- Visa and international travel requirements.
- Site inductions and access approval.
- Verification of qualifications, licences and competencies.
- Company and client mobilisation approval.

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What is offered

- A senior operational leadership role on an international mining project.
- Responsibility for establishing and maintaining high conveyor-maintenance standards.
- The opportunity to lead and develop a multicultural workforce.
- 6/3 Roster
- Immediate start

Pay: $150,000.00 – $162,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Perth WA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

- Do you have previous senior supervisory or superintendent-level experience?
- Do you have strong knowledge of conveyor belts, splices, pulleys, idlers, cleaners, skirts, tracking systems, take-ups and drives.
- Do you have strong experience in belt change-outs, splicing, repairs, inspections and shutdown work.
- Do you have a mechanical trade qualification, conveyor-specialist background or equivalent fixed-plant qualification?

Experience:

- Conveyor Belt Maintenance: 8 years (Required)

Language:

- English (Required)

Willingness to travel:

- 50% (Required)

Work Location: In person

📌 Site Superintendent – Conveyor Maintenance Specialist | FIFO Guinea (Perth)
🏢 Brilliant Boton Australia Conveyor Services
📍 Perth