Regional Operations Manager

Pybar Mining Services Pty Ltd; Sydney; Presencial; AUD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

16 weeks paid parental leave

Medibank private health insurance 9%?d

Milestone service awards

Gold Toyota fleet discounts

Travel insurance & car hire discounts

Qantas Club discounts

Virgin lounge membership discounts

Descripción de la vacante

PYBAR Mining Services Pty Ltd is seeking a Regional Operations Manager to lead multiple underground mining projects across Australia. The role reports to the General Manager and focuses on safety, operational excellence and commercial performance while developing leaders and strengthening client partnerships.

Based anywhere in Australia with airport access and travel flexibility, you will drive operational plans, budgets and performance, ensuring contract delivery meets high safety and integrity

Formación

• Extensive leadership experience in underground mining operations across multiple sites or units.
• Proven ability to lead Project Managers and senior leaders.
• Strong commercial acumen with budgets, forecasts, and profitability focus.

Responsabilidades

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight across multiple underground mining projects.
• Lead, coach and develop Project Managers and site leaders.
• Drive safety, productivity, cost performance, and profitability.
• Partner with PMs on operational plans, budgets and workforce needs.
• Monitor performance using safety, operational and commercial metrics.
• Maintain strong client and stakeholder relationships for contract delivery and growth.
• Ensure compliance with regulations, policies and procedures; promote risk management.
• Support workforce planning and succession; drive continuous regional improvement.

Conocimientos

Underground mining leadership

Stakeholder management

Budgeting and forecasting

Contract mining experience

Travel readiness

Descripción del empleo

Salary negatable dependant on experience

PYBAR – a Thiess Company, is a mining services provider with core competencies in underground hard rock mining. With origins dating back to 1993, our success is based on safe, rapid underground development and consistent, reliable production. We deliver a range of projects, from large established mining operations to greenfield developments across Australia. The services we provide range from mine development, production, cable bolting and drilling, raise boring, shotcreting and fleet.

THE OPPORTUNITY

PYBAR is seeking an experienced Regional Operations Manager reporting to the General Manager, to join our Senior Leadership Team and provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple underground mining operations.

This is a senior and influential leadership role, working closely with Project Managers, Site Leaders and the broader Senior Leadership Team to deliver outstanding safety, operational and commercial performance across our projects.

The successful candidate can be based anywhere in Australia, provided they have convenient access to an airport and the flexibility to travel regularly to our operations.

You will play a key role in driving operational excellence, developing our leaders, strengthening client partnerships and ensuring PYBAR continues to deliver safe, productive and commercially successful outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight across multiple underground mining projects, ensuring safe, efficient and profitable contract delivery.
• Lead, coach and develop Project Managers and senior site leaders, building high-performing, accountable and capable leadership teams.
• Drive consistent operational standards and continuous improvement across projects, identifying opportunities to improve safety, productivity, cost performance and profitability.
• Partner with Project Managers on operational plans, budgets, forecasts, workforce requirements and resource strategies to achieve business and contractual objectives.
• Monitor project performance using key safety, operational and commercial metrics, proactively addressing risks and performance challenges.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and key stakeholders, supporting successful contract delivery, long-term partnerships and future growth opportunities.
• Ensure operations comply with statutory requirements, mining regulations, contractual obligations, company standards and relevant policies and procedures.
• Provide visible safety leadership and promote proactive risk management and a strong culture of accountability across all operations.
• Champion PYBAR's values and support a consistent culture of safety, integrity, teamwork, accountability and innovation.
• Lead workforce and succession planning across the region, identifying critical capability requirements and developing strong leadership and talent pipelines.
• Support new project mobilisations, contract expansions and other growth opportunities, ensuring operational readiness and effective execution.
• Contribute as a member of the Senior Leadership Team to the development and execution of broader business strategy and organisational priorities.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Extensive leadership experience within underground mining operations, ideally across multiple sites, projects or business units within a mining contractor or owner-operator environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing Project Managers and senior operational leaders.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience with budgets, forecasting, contract performance, cost management and profitability.
• A proven track record of delivering strong operational outcomes while maintaining high standards of safety, quality and regulatory compliance.
• Strong understanding of underground mining operations, project performance and the commercial drivers of contract mining.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credible and trusted relationships with clients, employees and senior leaders.
• Strong strategic thinking, judgement and decision-making capability, with the ability to balance immediate operational priorities with longer-term business objectives.
• The ability to influence across multiple operations and create consistency, accountability and continuous improvement within geographically dispersed teams.
• Flexibility to travel regularly to PYBAR operations across Australia.

PYBAR PERKS

• Join PYBAR who are part of the Thiess Group, which means broader development and growth opportunities across the global business.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Medibank corporate private health insurance discount of 9% for you and your family.
• Milestone service awards and gifts - PYBAR celebrating with you.
• Gold Toyota fleet discounts & novated leasing options.
• Book your next family holiday today! Access to travel insurance & car hire discounts.
• Qantas Club and Virgin lounge membership discounts.

INCLUSION & DIVERSITY

Inclusion and diversity is important to us, which is why ‘Respect’ is one of our core values. We welcome and strive for a diverse workforce and to help us achieve this, we would love to receive applications from females, Indigenous Australians, LGBTQI+ community members and anyone else who would love to join our team.

A SOLUTIONS-FOCUSED APPROACH TO EVERY UNDERGROUND MINING PROJECT

Our mandate is to deliver the best return on investment for our clients

Our approach is driven by our values. We are committed to safe, rapid underground infrastructure development and consistent, reliable production.

PYBAR is a private company where the shareholders work in the business. This provides the business with the ability to respond quickly, while our resources enable us to service underground mining projects of any scale.

Our approach

• To exceed expectations – ingrained in our culture from the top down
• To genuinely partner with our clients by focusing on creating value in precedence to the distribution of profit to our shareholders
• To build on our existing track record of proving that there is room to reset performance benchmarks in underground mining
• To leverage our agility as a private company to provide a fast, efficient and responsive service.