Rail Maintenance Superintendent: Lead Safety & Performance

Aurizon; Sarina; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development and growth opportunities

Mentoring and development programs

Discounts on health insurance, travel,

Parental leave and super booster

Job summary

Aurizon is seeking a Maintenance Superintendent to lead a critical maintenance operation from our Jilalan depot, Sarina. You will drive safety, coach leaders, and manage performance to ensure on-time, in-full locomotive reliability across the network.

You will apply analytical skills, steer continuous improvement, and oversee budgets, resources and training to build a capable, accountable team aligned with Aurizon’s safety and service standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of operations, preferably rail industry.
• Knowledge of contemporary maintenance, supply chain and reliability processes.
• Relevant trade or tertiary qualifications commensurate with the role.
• Well-developed Safety management skills and knowledge including incident investigation, safety interactions, near miss reporting and behaviour based safety leadership.
• Effective operational management and leadership skills with a proven capability to develop and implement relevant systems to achieve relevant key performance indicators.
• Ability to effectively engage team members, establish and sustain relationships, set clear direction and provide coaching.
• Demonstrated customer relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen

Responsibilities

• Lead a maintenance operation and the maintenance leadership team to deliver safe, reliable locomotive performance.
• Drive safety culture and Zero Harm in all aspects of the operation.
• Coach Leaders to achieve customer expectations through a result-driven culture.
• Provide expert advice and support to leaders to meet performance objectives and build high-performance teams.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and collaboration.
• Apply analytics and KPIs to optimise service delivery on time and in full.
• Manage budgets, resources, on-time performance and safety.
• Ensure activities meet industry and business standards.
• Maintain up-to-date training and competency for the allocated team.
• Build positive relationships with stakeholders.
• Take accountability and ownership for team outcomes.

Skills

Rail industry knowledge

Maintenance & reliability

Safety leadership

Operational management

Team coaching

Customer relationship management

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Trade or tertiary qualification

Job description

Aurizon is seeking a Maintenance Superintendent to lead a critical maintenance operation from our Jilalan depot, Sarina. You will drive safety, coach leaders, and manage performance to ensure on-time, in-full locomotive reliability across the network.

You will apply analytical skills, steer continuous improvement, and oversee budgets, resources and training to build a capable, accountable team aligned with Aurizon’s safety and service standards.