Operations Manager | Pumping & Dredging | Perth HQ, National Growth

Join a heavily backed, tech-led business with real passion behind it. With over 50 years of experience, our client has grown from a start-up into a proven, privately owned success story. They hold the exclusive ANZ rights to patented, world-leading pump technologies, with head office in Perth and major projects in the east. With massive growth and major wins, they now need an Operations Manager who lives for excellence, sweats the details and leads operations from the front.

More fulfilment, more freedom, more wealth and real career progression- this role delivers all four.

We need a solid operations skilled who wants to lead a team hungry for leadership and high standards, values process, and brings strong technical expertise and a problem-solver's DNA.

You’ll step into a business that’s already winning, with the pipeline and backing to give you real security. From day one, you’re the one running the job: the leader on site, the person clients trust, and the reason the team delivers.

Every scope is different, from mining and underground work to major dredging projects, so no two months look the same. You’ll build a crew that takes ownership and relationships that last, and you’ll leave the business sharper than you found it. Within 6 to 12 months, you’ll be ready to take it national.

Reporting to the Commercial Director, this is a workshop and site-based role leading a team of 25+.

The Opportunity

- Lead a team of 25+ supervisors, fitters and operators, and continue to build a crew with a standard of excellence

- Roll out each scope and run the full job end to end with high levels of reporting, documentation, and client communication

- Set the standard with polished daily reports,



site records and sign-offs; create a culture of accountability

- Bring the value of precision to all dredging and pumping projects, understanding flow volumes, density samples and key control points to lead your team with technical expertise

- Plan ahead on crews, equipment, logistics and technician travel; improve processes and build excellent rapport with your team

- Build trust with clients by thinking steps ahead and delivering what you promise

- Improve processes and shape how operations run as the business scales

- Follow a clear 6 to 12-month plan to support project development in the East by stabilising the West and owning the company's operations nationally.

Who We Need

- A qualified operations professional with a strong pumping, slurry, dewatering or dredging background

- 10+ years of mining experience, ideally including underground

- Proven operational leadership on-site and underground with large teams and hands-on with sign-offs, documentation, and reporting

- Proven people leadership of site crews, experience managing teams and inspiring crews through creating vision, values and consistency

- S26 supervisory ticket

- Exceptionally organised and solution-oriented, with high standards and a high attention to detail

- Assertive, forward-thinking, and a true leader who celebrates wins and takes pride in a job well done

The package

$180K to $200K + super (everything is negotiable for the right person)

If this role speaks to you, please pick up the phone. Call Marianne Paterson directly on 0459 468 ***.

If this role sounds like you but it's not 100% there, call us, as we may be able to create something tailored to your circumstances and goals.

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