Maintenance Supervisor - Rotowaro 10280
About Bathurst:
Bathurst Resources is New Zealand’s largest specialist coal mine company. We produced over 2.2 million tonnes of coal each year and proudly employ over 550 people. About 80 percent of our production is used for steel making of which one third is used by a local Kiwi steel mill. Our high-quality, thermal-grade coal fuels are used to help drive the engines of many iconic South Island food and dairy businesses.
The Rotowaro coalfield and opencast mine is the second largest opencast coal mine in New Zealand and is located 10km west of Huntly. We are also only 40km from Raglan and 40km from Hamilton – the city life or the beach life are both accessible from our mine.
We are culturally diverse and maintain a strong health and safety focus. You dig, they dig, we all dig doing things right! We have our peoples’ best interests in mind and welcome you to put yourself forward to join our team if you have experience driving mobile heavy equipment.
Send in your CV and setup a phone chat with us, so we can answer your questions!
Be Safe – Be Accountable – Be a Team – Be Real
We can offer you:
- Market leading pay
- Company vehicle
- Excellent team environment
- Opportunity for career growth
- Awesome benefits for you and your family to enjoy - Health and Life Insurance
- The right equipment for the job and an opportunity to add new skills to your kit bag!
The Opportunity:
Reporting to the Maintenance Superintendent, the role is to provide effective supervision to our specialist excavator maintenance crew. Our specialist crew oversee all planned servicing and breakdown maintenance across our excavator fleet to ensure our operation can keep running.
The Supervisor will lead the specialised crew through effective management of specialised heavy diesel maintenance and large excavator expertise, health and safety leadership and effective budget management.
You’ll have experience working on big mining gear and leading a team to keep our operation running smoothly.
What you will bring to the role:
- A strong commitment to Health and Safety
- Proven leadership experience
- Mining experience preferred
- Minimum 5 years’ post-qualification experience in an engineering trade
- Extensive knowledge & experience in a range of heavy earthmoving excavators & equipment and ancillary plant such as Liebherr, Hitachi, Caterpillar, and Komatsu large excavators; Liebherr R9400, R9250, 994, 984; Komatsu PC4000, PC2000; CAT 330G; Hitachi ZX470
- Experience with leading maintenance shuts, schedules and preventative maintenance planning
- Full Class 1 NZ driver’s licence
If you share our passion for safety and feel that you could make a meaningful difference in this role, please apply using the ‘CLICK HERE’ button now.
Please note:
- Successful candidates will be subject to pre-employment drug and alcohol testing and a pre-employment medical.
- You must also have the right to legally live and work in New Zealand to be considered for this position.
- Shortlisted applicants may be contacted ahead of the applications closing date.
Applications close Sunday 20 October at 5:00pm.