Hoist Mechanical Specialist – Underground Mining (FIFO)

BHP; Adelaide; Vor Ort; AUD 120.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Prominent Hill in South Australia seeks a Mechanical Specialist - Hoist to join a skilled maintenance team. You will apply expertise in hoisting systems, ropes, brakes and hydraulics to keep critical underground and ore handling assets running safely and efficiently.

This role reports to the Superintendent Hoisting and works within a rotating 8/6 FIFO roster from Adelaide or Port Augusta. You will develop scope of work, review technical procedures and mentor teammates while prioritising safety

Qualifikationen

• An Australian recognised Mechanical Trade qualification.
• Extensive experience in underground mining, hoisting, heavy industrial or materials handling environments.
• Advanced knowledge of mine hoisting systems, ropes, braking systems, hydraulic systems, winches and associated critical infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of reliability-centred maintenance principles, asset management practices and condition monitoring techniques.
• Experience developing shutdown scopes and technical work packages for major maintenance activities.
• Proven ability to assess equipment risks, prioritise maintenance activities and provide technical recommendations that improve asset performance and availability.
• Knowledge of alignment practices, torque requirements, critical tolerances, and precision maintenance techniques.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and work collaboratively across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering and Planning functions.
• Experience providing technical coaching and mentoring to supervisors, maintainers, and contractors.
• Experience using SAP or similar maintenance management systems.
• Underground mining experience, hydraulics expertise, Working at Heights certification and Integrated Tool Carrier (IT) competency will be highly regarded.
• Most importantly, you will demonstrate a genuine commitment to safety, teamwork, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Aufgaben

• Lead by example and contribute to a strong culture of safety, care, and accountability within the Hoisting team.
• Provide specialist technical leadership for hoisting systems, ropes, winches and associated mechanical assets, ensuring safe, reliable and efficient operation of critical infrastructure.
• Complete inspections, condition monitoring activities and mechanical assessments to identify equipment risks, emerging defects and reliability improvement opportunities.
• Participate in complex fault-finding and root cause investigations, providing technical recommendations to improve equipment performance and prevent repeat failures.
• Work closely with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering teams to ensure equipment reliability risks are appropriately identified, prioritised and managed.
• Provide technical oversight for hoisting shutdowns and major maintenance activities, including scope development, work prioritisation, execution support, and post-outage reviews.
• Partner with Planning teams to optimise maintenance strategies, shutdown schedules, and resource allocation to maximise asset availability and reliability.
• Develop, review, and assure the quality of maintenance work scopes, technical procedures, Task Hazard Analyses (THAs) and maintenance standards.
• Support long-term asset management and reliability improvement initiatives through defect elimination, lifecycle planning and continuous improvement activities.
• Create and review high-quality maintenance notifications, work orders, inspection records, and technical reports to support effective decision making.
• Provide technical coaching and mentoring to supervisors, maintainers and contractors to build capability across the Hoisting team.
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping, tool management, and work area organisation.
• Identify and champion opportunities to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, and operational performance across hoisting and ore handling systems.

Kenntnisse

Mechanical trade

Underground mining

Hoisting systems

Condition monitoring

Safety leadership

Asset reliability

Ausbildung

Australian recognised Mechanical Trade qualification

Tools

SAP

Jobbeschreibung

Prominent Hill in South Australia seeks a Mechanical Specialist - Hoist to join a skilled maintenance team. You will apply expertise in hoisting systems, ropes, brakes and hydraulics to keep critical underground and ore handling assets running safely and efficiently.

This role reports to the Superintendent Hoisting and works within a rotating 8/6 FIFO roster from Adelaide or Port Augusta. You will develop scope of work, review technical procedures and mentor teammates while prioritising safety