Make Your Mark on a WA Success Story

Founded in the coastal town of Port Gregory, the culture of GMA is built on a legacy of innovation. From humble beginnings more than 40 years ago, GMA has grown to become the global leader in the garnet abrasives industry.

While it takes a team of over 500 people to operate GMA's three mine sites, ten processing plants, five recycling facilities, and 13 offices around the globe, the legacy of innovation and core values continue to pass down throughout each generation.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a safety focussed, pragmatic and strategic maintenance leader to join our Mid-West Operational Management team (Mid-West OMT) based in Geraldton and Port Gregory. Reporting to the General Manager Mining Australia, the Maintenance Manager is responsible for the development and implementation of maintenance strategies, management systems and processes for mobile equipment and fixed plant assets across our Dry Plant, Wet Plant and Mine Site operations.

Responsibilities will include

- Developing, delivering and optimising maintenance strategies to support consistent, stable plant and asset availability for the operations.
- Overseeing and driving quality maintenance activities through maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability monitoring, system administration and reporting.
- Monitoring and ensuring financial management for all maintenance activities and identifying optimisation opportunities.
- Leading and developing a multidisciplinary maintenance team with a strong focus on safety and continuous improvement that works in partnership with the Operations Team.




- Driving equipment health monitoring activities and embedding predictive and preventative maintenance strategies to minimise unplanned downtime.
- Supporting the delivery of capital project works.
- Ensuring critical spares availability and compliance with ISO quality standards and statutory requirements.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES

- A minimum of 5 years senior maintenance leadership experience within the resources or heavy industry.
- Proven experience in driving safety for Operational teams.
- Tertiary qualifications in Mechanical Engineering, a relevant trade or demonstrated equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge and expertise of scheduling practices, standards, systems and processes relevant to maintenance planning and execution.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, engage with, influence and resolve conflict across all levels of a business and with internal and external stakeholders in a constructive and meaningful manner.
- Current rights to work in Australia.

Applications for this role close 5:00pm, Friday 4 September 2026.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS |

At GMA we pride ourselves on recruiting and retaining a local workforce giving you the enjoyment of a mining industry career, whilst being able to be home every night with your family and friends.





We offer competitive salaries, transport to and from our port Gregory operations as well as paid lunch and tea breaks.

In addition to the above some of GMA’s employee benefits include:

- Leave for all of life’s reasons (Annual, Personal, Community Service, Parental, Long Service Leave)
- 2x Protected Public holidays so you can celebrate important events with your family and friends.
- Adaptable work arrangements
- Generous employee incentive scheme (Bonus)
- Superannuation above statutory minimum's for long term employees.
- Gym Membership Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS |

At GMA we are committed to fulfilling our purpose by always adhering to our values of Teamwork, Care, Trust, Excellence, Determination and Entrepreneurship in our everyday work and behaviours:

- Teamwork: Work collaboratively and support one another to achieve great outcomes. Seek what is best for GMA, our customers and our colleagues rather than just ourselves.
- Care: Show respect and concern for each other and ourselves. Ensure we do the right thing and we do it well. go the extra mile to ensure we all reach our goals.
- Trust: Be open and honest. Share information openly and proactively, follow through on commitments.
- Excellence: Set high standards and hold ourselves, and each other accountable for achieving them. Focus on great results. Make the right choices, even if no one is looking.
- Determination: Never give up
- Entrepreneurship: We look for opportunities to innovate and grow

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