Job Description
REGIONAL OPERATIONS MANAGER – QUARRIES
Lead nine quarry operations across a large and diverse regional portfolio
Take ownership of an approximately $95 million P&L; and two million tonnes of annual sales
Deliver significant operational, asset, resource development and capital priorities
Your next opportunity!
This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished quarrying leader to take responsibility for a significant regional portfolio within one of Australia's leading construction materials organisations.
Reporting directly to the General Manager, you will lead nine quarry operations across Queensland and the Northern Territory, supported by experienced Quarry Managers and specialist leaders across assets, logistics, finance, commercial, property, sales and safety.
With an approximately $95 million P&L;, annual sales of around two million tonnes and a substantial program of operational and capital investment, youwill have genuine scope to shape performance, strengthen operational consistency and deliver lasting improvement across a diverse and commercially important portfolio.
The Opportunity
Your portfolio includes operations across Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Wide Bay, Toowoomba and Darwin.
The role may be based in Brisbane, Townsville or another practical Queensland location, with Mackay, Cairns and the Wide Bay-Burnett region also open for consideration.
Regular travel across the portfolio will be required.
You will lead a group of Quarry Managers with varying levels of operational, commercial and leadership experience.
Your role will be to establish credibility quickly, create a consistent operating cadence and ensure each site receives the right level of leadership, challenge and support.
Key priorities will include:
Securing the long-term continuity of quarry resources and raw materials
Improving fixed-plant productivity, reliability and cost-per-unit performance
Delivering significant operational and capital projects
Establishing consistent KPIs, operating metrics and performance disciplines
Strengthening accountability and capability across the Quarry Manager group




Implementing and embedding key quarry safety initiatives
Maintaining safe, compliant and environmentally responsible operations
Planned and potential investment includes a new primary crushing circuit, significant fixed-plant development, sand quarry asset replacement and a range of resource development, stripping, mobile equipment and site infrastructure projects.
Your Responsibilities
You will be accountable for:
Providing operational leadership across nine quarrying operations
Leading, coaching and developing the portfolio's Quarry Managers
Managing an approximately $95 million regional P&L;
Delivering production, safety, cost, margin and operational performance outcomes
Driving fixed-plant and mobile-equipment optimisation
Developing business cases and leading operational input into capital projects
Identifying and prioritising replacement, continuity and growth investment
Ensuring long-term resource availability and operational continuity
Building greater consistency and standardisation across the regional network
Partnering with finance, commercial, assets, logistics, property, sales and safety teams
Managing relationships with regulators, councils, communities and other stakeholders
Maintaining strong site visibility through regular regional travel
What you will bring
This role requires more than broad heavy-industry leadership.
You will need the technical and operational credibility to engage experienced Quarry Managers, understand what is happening beneath the headline numbers and challenge performance constructively.
You will bring:
An open Site Senior Executive (SSE) qualification, or the background and capability to obtain the required Queensland qualification quickly




Substantial operational leadership experience within quarrying, aggregates or a closely aligned environment
Previous responsibility for a large quarry or multiple quarry operations
A deep understanding of safe, productive and commercially successful quarry operations
Strong financial literacy and previous accountability for operational P&Ls;, budgets and forecasts
Experience developing capital business cases and delivering complex operational or asset projects
Knowledge of fixed-plant optimisation, crushing operations, mobile equipment and resource development
Demonstrated success leading experienced operational managers across multiple locations
Robust knowledge of quarry safety, environmental and regulatory requirements
The ability to interpret operational and financial data and turn it into decisive action
A proactive leadership style and the confidence to take ownership without waiting for direction
The flexibility to travel regularly across Queensland and the Northern Territory
Applicants from mining or mineral-processing environments may be considered where they can demonstrate highly transferable quarrying knowledge.
However, direct experience within quarries, sand or aggregates will be strongly preferred.
Why join?
This is a rare opportunity to lead a quarrying portfolio with genuine scale, complexity and organisational visibility.
You will have significant autonomy, direct access to the General Manager and the opportunity to influence substantial operational and capital investment.
You will also be supported by an established team of specialists across finance, assets, logistics, commercial, property and safety.
The organisation is seeking a leader who can move confidently between portfolio strategy and site-level operations, someone who knows when to step into the detail, when to challenge and when to empower others.
If you combine deep quarrying knowledge with commercial discipline, authentic leadership and the ability to turn priorities into action, we would welcome a confidential discussion.

📌 Regional Operations Manager - Quarries (Queensland)
🏢 Hinchen Recruitment Group
📍 Queensland