Workshop Supervisor – Safety & Delivery Lead

WesTrac; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Novated leasing

Income protection insurance

Retail discounts (Coles, Petbarn, etc)

BUPA discounts

Fitness Passport

Employee Assistance Program

Recognition awards

Internal career progression

Training & flexibility

Referral bonus up to $5000

Emergency services leave

Defence reserves leave

Employee share purchase plan

Job summary

WesTrac is seeking a Workshop Supervisor – New Mining Machines to lead the execution team in the Western Australia mining workshop. The role focuses on safety, quality, and customer satisfaction while managing work orders and ensuring compliance with plans, Caterpillar standards, and customer requirements.

You will drive safety leadership on the workshop floor, oversee task allocation, forecast labour needs, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years supervisory experience.
• Proficient MS Office usage.
• Excellent organisational skills with ability to manage shifting workloads.
• Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders to exceed customer expectations.

Responsibilities

• Drive visible safety leadership by actively engaging on the workshop floor, leading effective Prestart meetings, allocating tasks clearly with risk awareness, supporting JHA processes, promoting environmental responsibility, and creating action plans that strengthen team engagement and culture.
• Support team performance by addressing skills gaps, assigning and overseeing tasks, driving accountability, aligning expectations with business targets, and ensuring effective labour planning through proactive forecasting and escalation.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a diverse, high-performing team by fostering engagement, driving performance, supporting succession planning, embedding change, and ensuring delivery against agreed plans and performance targets.
• Compliance to plan is the accountability of the Supervisor - Execution. Formal plan compliance including an understanding of the execution tasks will be from Supervisor to Leading hand each shift. Any deviation to the planned executions tasks on the week of execution, will require approval from the Area Manager
• Support continuous improvement by facilitating CPS meetings, encouraging idea-sharing, actioning improvements, and coordinating capital expenditure requests through appropriate financial processes.

Skills

Supervisory experience

MS Office

Organisation

Stakeholder management

Job description

WesTrac is seeking a Workshop Supervisor – New Mining Machines to lead the execution team in the Western Australia mining workshop. The role focuses on safety, quality, and customer satisfaction while managing work orders and ensuring compliance with plans, Caterpillar standards, and customer requirements.

You will drive safety leadership on the workshop floor, oversee task allocation, forecast labour needs, and support continuous improvement initiatives.