Site Superintendent – Conveyor Maintenance Specialist | FIFO Guinea

About the opportunity

Boton Guinea is seeking an experienced Site Superintendent – Conveyor Maintenance to support conveyor belt maintenance and associated services on a 6/3 roster at the Simandou Mine Processing Plant in Guinea.

This is a senior, site-based leadership role responsible for the safe and effective day-to-day execution of conveyor belt maintenance, inspection, repair, splicing, component support and breakdown-response activities.

Reporting to the Contract Manager, you will lead supervisors, leading hands, trade crews and field-support personnel while ensuring work is properly planned, resourced, controlled and completed to the required safety, quality and productivity standards.

Key responsibilities

You will:

• Translate approved maintenance plans into executable daily and weekly work fronts.
• Coordinate scheduled maintenance, inspections, repairs, belt splicing and breakdown support.
• Maintain appropriate core-crew, after-hours and escalation coverage.
• Allocate supervisors, leading hands and crews according to competency, risk and work priority.
• Review conveyor defects, belt damage, tracking issues, splice condition, cleaners, skirts, pulleys and lagging.
• Determine practical repair strategies and escalate engineering requirements where necessary.
• Ensure vulcanising equipment, splice environments and quality hold points are correctly managed.
• Coordinate work orders, access, parts, permits, isolations and close-out requirements.
• Maintain field action registers, constraints logs and effective shift handovers.
• Coach supervisors and employees to maintain consistent technical and behavioural standards.
• Enforce fatigue-management, PPE, housekeeping, timekeeping and conduct requirements.
• Support the development and progression of Guinean employees.

About you

You will have:

• At least eight years’ conveyor belt maintenance experience.
• Strong experience in belt change-outs, splicing, repairs, inspections and shutdown work.
• A mechanical trade qualification, conveyor-specialist background or equivalent fixed-plant qualification.
• Previous senior supervisory or superintendent-level experience.
• Strong knowledge of conveyor belts, splices, pulleys, idlers, cleaners, skirts, tracking systems, take-ups and drives.
• Experience planning manpower, equipment, cranes, permits, isolations and shutdown activities.
• Strong understanding of critical-risk controls and safe isolation practices.
• Experience with SAP, RTBS or comparable maintenance-management systems.
• Strong written reporting and shift-handover capability.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

French-language capability will be highly regarded, particularly for local workforce communication, coaching and training.

Mobilisation requirements

Appointment will be subject to:

• Medical and fitness-for-work clearance.
• Visa and international travel requirements.
• Site inductions and access approval.
• Verification of qualifications, licences and competencies.
• Company and client mobilisation approval.

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What is offered

• A senior operational leadership role on an international mining project.
• Responsibility for establishing and maintaining high conveyor-maintenance standards.
• The opportunity to lead and develop a multicultural workforce.
• 6/3 Roster
• Immediate start

Pay: $150,000.00 – $162,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Perth WA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Do you have previous senior supervisory or superintendent-level experience?
• Do you have strong knowledge of conveyor belts, splices, pulleys, idlers, cleaners, skirts, tracking systems, take-ups and drives.
• Do you have strong experience in belt change-outs, splicing, repairs, inspections and shutdown work.
• Do you have a mechanical trade qualification, conveyor-specialist background or equivalent fixed-plant qualification?

Experience:

• Conveyor Belt Maintenance: 8 years (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 50% (Required)

Work Location: In person