Locomotive Maintenance Shift Lead

Pacific National; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Discounted travel and insurance

Novated Leasing

Fitness Passport

Inclusive, values-driven culture

Job summary

Pacific National seeks a Shift Supervisor – Locomotive Maintenance at our Nebo facility to lead a skilled team in safe, reliable maintenance across a 7 on 7 off roster. You will supervise Service Technicians, prioritise work, and ensure handovers and fleet status are accurate for on-time operations.

This frontline leadership role is ideal for someone with a strong mechanical background, rail maintenance experience, and a passion for safety, quality and continuous improvement in a safety-critical

Qualifications

• Trade qualification in Mechanical, Diesel Fitting or Electrical (Cert III or equivalent).
• Strong maintenance experience on locomotives or heavy mobile equipment.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams, coordinating workflows or acting in a step-up supervisory role.
• Experience working in safety-critical, shift-based industrial environments.
• Sound understanding of maintenance planning, fault-finding and quality assurance.
• Confidence using CMMS systems such as Maximo, SAP or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead, direct and support a team of locomotive maintainers across planned and reactive maintenance.
• Allocate work, set shift priorities and monitor progress against schedules and safety requirements.
• Ensure clear and effective handovers between shifts, including fleet status and outstanding work.
• Enforce compliance with rail safety legislation, WHS requirements and company procedures.
• Conduct and verify risk assessments, JSAs/Take 5s, isolations and permit-to-work processes.
• Lead toolbox talks, safety conversations and assist with incident or hazard investigations.
• Supervise maintenance execution including exams, running repairs, component change-outs and defect rectification.
• Verify quality of work and ensure accurate completion of work orders in the CMMS.
• Provide technical guidance and escalate complex faults to engineering as required.
• Communicate clearly with operations, planning and engineering to support fleet availability.
• Identify opportunities to improve safety, efficiency, quality and ways of working.

Job description

Pacific National seeks a Shift Supervisor – Locomotive Maintenance at our Nebo facility to lead a skilled team in safe, reliable maintenance across a 7 on 7 off roster. You will supervise Service Technicians, prioritise work, and ensure handovers and fleet status are accurate for on-time operations.

This frontline leadership role is ideal for someone with a strong mechanical background, rail maintenance experience, and a passion for safety, quality and continuous improvement in a safety-critical