Mechanical Superintendent

Broken Hill Mines | Permanent Full Time | Nine-day Fortnight

Broken Hill Mines has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Mechanical Superintendent to lead our established mechanical maintenance team at Rasp Mine in Broken Hill.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of mechanical maintenance across underground mobile equipment, surface fleet and fixed plant operations, ensuring our assets operate safely, reliably and efficiently.

About the role

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will provide leadership and direction to the mechanical maintenance workforce, ensuring maintenance activities are delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Providing visible leadership and promoting a strong safety culture across underground and surface operations.

- Leading, coaching and developing the mechanical maintenance team, including supervisors, coordinators, tradespeople, apprentices and contractors.

- Overseeing mechanical maintenance across underground mobile equipment, surface fleet and fixed plant, including processing, crushing, materials handling, pumping, ventilation and compressed air systems.

- Driving effective maintenance planning and execution, including preventative maintenance, shutdowns, breakdowns and scheduled work.

- Improving equipment reliability, availability and lifecycle performance through defect elimination, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Ensuring mechanical maintenance activities meet relevant statutory, regulatory and site safety requirements.

- Working collaboratively with the Maintenance Manager, Planning, Mining, Processing and Technical Services teams to establish priorities and deliver operational objectives.

- Managing mechanical maintenance budgets, resources, contractors, critical spares and expenditure.

- Monitoring maintenance performance and identifying opportunities to improve equipment performance, reduce recurring failures and optimise maintenance costs.

- Developing workforce capability,



strengthening technical competencies and supporting succession planning.

- This is a residential position only.

About you

You are an experienced mechanical maintenance professional with a strong background in underground mining, fixed plant or mobile equipment maintenance. You combine sound technical knowledge with practical leadership capability and understand the importance of balancing safety, reliability, production requirements and cost control.

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

- A recognised mechanical trade qualification with substantial mining maintenance experience, or a relevant mechanical engineering qualification supported by practical mining maintenance experience.

- Demonstrated senior-level experience leading mechanical maintenance teams in a production environment.

- Experience overseeing maintenance across mobile equipment and fixed plant.

- Strong knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, equipment reliability and asset management.

- Experience managing maintenance shutdowns, contractors, budgets and maintenance resources.

- A sound understanding of mechanical risk management, isolation practices and relevant NSW mining safety requirements.

- Strong maintenance systems and reporting capability, including experience with CMMS/EAM platforms such as Pronto or similar.

- The ability to analyse maintenance performance data, identify recurring equipment failures and drive practical improvement initiatives.

- Strong communication, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

- A hands-on leadership style with a genuine commitment to developing people and building team capability.





Underground metalliferous mining experience, reliability or asset management training, fixed plant shutdown leadership and relevant engineering or post-trade qualifications will be highly regarded.

What’s on Offer

- Permanent full-time opportunity

- Monday to Friday 5/2, 4/3 roster - excellent work life balance

- Competitive remuneration

- Relocation support for candidates outside of Broken Hill

- Structured safety culture with robust leadership support

About Broken Hill Mines

The Rasp Mine is an operating silver-lead-zinc mine in Broken Hill, with a large Mineral Resource and a 750,000tpa processing plant. The mine has operated for over 120 years, producing zinc and lead concentrates sold globally.

The Pinnacles Mine, situated 15km southwest of Broken Hill, is known for containing one of the area's highest-grade and shallowest silver-zinc-lead deposits. Despite being largely undeveloped, small-scale historical mining has occurred over the past 120 years.

Broken Hill Mines has recently acquired the Rasp Mine and secured a Joint Venture option for the Pinnacles Mine to consolidate the two operations and create a leading and long-term base metals operation.

Why Broken Hill?

Discover the charm of Broken Hill – Australia’s first heritage-listed city and one of the country’s most iconic mining communities. Known for its rich history, art scene, and welcoming locals, Broken Hill offers the perfect blend of career opportunity and regional lifestyle.

Enjoy short commutes, affordable housing, quality schools, and a vibrant local culture. The city also offers excellent healthcare, sporting facilities, and direct flights to Sydney and Adelaide.

How to Apply

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We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.

For enquiries regarding the role or other opportunities, please contact:**@brokenhillmines.com

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