Permanent | Full time | Perth, with regular travel to the Nolans site, NT
Go Beyond. Build a legacy.
Arafura is developing the Nolans rare earths project in the Northern Territory. It’s a billion-dollar greenfield operation producing the rare earths needed for the global energy transition and future-facing technologies.
As Nolans moves through construction and into operational readiness, we’re looking for a Superintendent Asset Management to join our Business Readiness team. You’ll set up how the plant is maintained on the first fully integrated rare earths processing facility in Australia, while the plant is still being designed and built and the decisions you influence will shape how it runs for decades.
The role
You’ll lay the asset management and maintenance foundations the operation will run on from day one.
- Define the Asset Management Framework for Nolans and lead its rollout
- Set the asset management strategies (RCM, FMEA, criticality) that drive decisions on spares, tools and consumables
- Review commissioning, two-year and ongoing spares, and set the service agreements needed for maintenance and asset integrity
- Bring the maintainability view into stage gate reviews, design reviews and HAZOPs
- Act as the key contact for CMMS implementation within our EAM system
- Define maintenance documentation and procedures, and the approach to training the maintenance team in their use
What you’ll bring
- Tertiary qualifications in mechanical or electrical engineering, or a related discipline
- 10+ years in maintenance, reliability or asset management in mining or minerals processing, including a superintendent or senior engineering role
- Experience as the owner’s operational representative on capital projects, ideally greenfield
- Strong maintenance strategy and reliability skills, and experience setting up a CMMS
- Experience maintaining plant in a hazardous materials workplace, such as acid plants, hydrometallurgical circuits or NORM areas
- Sound judgement, and the ability to influence a project team without slowing it down
If you want to build the maintenance foundations of a first-of-its-kind Australian operation, we’d like to hear from you.