About the Avenira Wonarah Phosphate Operation

Hays is excited to partner with Avenira as they establish the team behind one of the Northern Territory's most anticipated new mining operations.

The Wonarah Phosphate Operation represents a landmark greenfields mining development. This significant investment in the Barkly region presents a rare opportunity to join during the establishment phase of a new mining operation with long-term growth ambitions. Employees will have the prospect to help shape systems, processes and culture from the ground up.

The Opportunity

As we prepare for initial operations at Wonarah, we're building our mining team and want to hear from experienced operators, leading hands and supervisors ahead of formal recruitment. Registering your Expression of Interest means you'll be among the first considered as these roles open up across the operation.

Positions will work to a 15/13 FIFO and BIBO roster. Points of hire include Mt Isa, Tennant Creek, Townsville, Cairns, Brisbane, Darwin. Applicants from Tennant Creek and Mt Isa are particularly encouraged to apply.

Roles We're Building Our Team For

There are multiple opportunities available.

- Mining Supervisors
- Excavator Operators / Leading Hands
- Excavator Operators
- Truck Operators
- Multi Skilled Operators, e.g. across loading, watercart, dozers, graders
- Crushing Leading Hand / Maintainer / Operator




- Crushing Operators
- Drillers
- Blast crew, including multi-skilled across multiple equipment

What You'll Bring

- Relevant tickets or licences for your area of interest (e.g. driver licence, excavator, haul truck, dozer or drill tickets)
- Previous open-cut mining or heavy equipment operating experience preferred
- For Leading Hand and Supervisor roles: demonstrated experience coordinating crews and supporting shift operations
- Strong safety focus, with the ability to work to mine plans, procedures and site requirements
- Willingness to work FIFO and/or BIBO to site from Mt Isa and Tennant Creek transport hubs

What's In It For You?

- A ground-floor opportunity on a greenfields NT phosphate operation
- Genuine career pathways as the operation establishes and grows
- The chance to help build a strong, safety-focused operational mining team from day one
- Broad exposure across a growing mine site, with room to develop your skills and progress

Register Your Interest If you're an experienced operator, leading hand or supervisor looking for your next opportunity, we want to hear from you. Submit your resume via SEEK and let us know which role(s) you're interested in as well as what qualifications/tickets you hold. We'll be in touch as recruitment opens.

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