Executive General Manager – Operations | Perth and Sandy Ridge, WA | Executive Leadership Team

We built Australia's only commercial geological repository. We are looking for an outstanding operational leader in a new role to help us grow.

About Tellus

Tellus operates Sandy Ridge, Australia's first and only geological repository for hazardous and low-level radioactive waste, in WA's Goldfields region. We help Australian industry start up, scale up and clean up safely and responsibly, permanently isolating the wastes that others can't. Our work underpins the clean energy transition, resources sector growth, energy decommissioning and national environmental remediation.

We're a committed team, driven by a purpose to clean up Australia of hazardous waste, and we're growing.

The role

This is a new executive role, reporting to the CEO, and joining a high-performing Executive Leadership Team, who are shaping the future of Australia's industrial landscape. You will lead our unique Sandy Ridge facility, from operational readiness and development, through end-to-end site operations, and the support services that set and assure our standards. Our teams bring the technical depth. You bring visible and impactful leadership that lifts our people and help scale our operations.

At Tellus, safety and performance standards are set by our leaders and owned by the people doing the work. We want someone who spends real time where the work happens, build processes that makes our site safer and more productive, and connects every crew to what our customers need and where the business is going.

This is your chance to lead a nationally significant operation. You will:

- Lead from the field, engaging and inspiring our people




- Build the production planning capability and processes that deliver growth, safely and reliably over time
- Get Sandy Ridge ready to support our customers' growing requirements and mobilise new work
- Own the long-term facility plan, the capital programme and the asset strategy

About you

You're an outstanding in-field leader from industrials, mining, mining services or waste, with a drive for results that people want to follow. You've run a site or operation and lifted its safety, engagement and production outcomes by building the processes to do it. You know your unit costs, you put customers at the centre of how you run the operation, and you connect what happens on shift to the strategy behind it.

You're as comfortable presenting a capital plan to the Board as you are leading a frontline pre-start.

Experience with licensed, hazardous materials or radiological operations will set you apart.

This is a genuine step up for a mine, site or operations manager ready to join an executive team.

Why join us

- Work that matters: a nationally significant facility with a explicit purpose
- A seat at the table: a high-performing executive team shaping Australia's waste landscape
- Real ownership: the asset, the plan and the people
- Genuine influence: translating enterprise level strategy into operational reality
- A competitive package with short-term and long-term incentives

If this sounds like your next role, we want to hear from you. For a confidential conversation, contact [email protected] or apply with your CV and a short note on how you will unlock our future growth pathways.

Tellus has created a genuinely diverse workplace and welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all backgrounds.

📌 Executive General Manager – Operations - Perth and Sandy Ridge, WA
🏢 Tellus
📍 Perth