Cultural Heritage Manager

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and collaborative leader to manage a team of professionals responsible for cultural heritage fieldwork programs. In this leadership role, you will be responsible for ensuring effective logistics, contractor coordination, and pre-planning requirements are delivered to support heritage fieldwork activities.

• Ensure all logistical requirements are effectively delivered to support heritage fieldwork programs.
• Drive continuous improvement across heritage logistics processes, enabling streamlined, end-to-end delivery of fieldwork activities.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Manage a team of six Cultural Heritage Fieldwork Program Coordinators, providing guidance and support to ensure successful project delivery.
2. Escalate and resolve pathways with accommodation constraints that impact heritage fieldwork surveys.
3. Identify trends in cultural heritage accommodation no-shows, unexpected arrivals, non-departures, and similar, and escalate for resolution.
4. Manage early forecasting of vehicle demand and heritage survey demand to escalate periods of HLA constraints.
5. Enable reporting of CMS monthly hours reporting for Traditional Owner Partnerships team.
6. Support the team to ensure the C7 aviation standards are followed for helicopter-assisted surveys.
7. Ensure C7 annual reporting of usage and annual audits to review operational standards of contracting companies is completed to align with C7 aviation standards.
8. Coach and mentor the Heritage coordinators team.
9. Adhere to all safety protocols and procedures.
10. Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations.
11. Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating, and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of best practices.
12. Collaborate closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, with the ability to build strong relationships across diverse teams.
• Solid project management capabilities, ensuring timely delivery and effective coordination of initiatives.
• Strong organisational skills, with the capacity to manage multiple priorities and resolve issues efficiently.
• Demonstrated safety leadership and a sound understanding of safety protocols and practices.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to convey complex information clearly.
• Sharp critical thinking and the ability to distil information into actionable insights and compelling narratives.
• Familiarity with safety protocols and procedures, ensuring compliance and continuous improvement.
• A high level of adaptability, resilience, and versatility in dynamic environments.
• Ability to respond swiftly and effectively to requests, maintaining quality and consistency under pressure.

What We Offer:

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking, and your hard work.
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority.
• A permanent position working directly for an international mining company.
• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia.
• Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus.
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family.
• Attractive share ownership plan.
• Company-provided insurance cover.
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options.
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave).
• Exclusive employee discounts.