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.

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 setting.

- 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

📌 Mechanical Superintendent (Broken Hill)
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