Principal - Improvement & Innovation

**Applications Close**: 17/08/2025
**Position No**: RSGI-SGI-IAI
**Work Type**: Permanent - Full Time
**Location**: Bunbury

**Join Us in Shaping the Future of Mining Innovation**

**Principal - Improvement and Innovation**
- Location: Bunbury, WA (flexible work arrangements available)_
Are you a curious and solutions-focused leader who thrives on improvement, innovation, and making things work better? Would you enjoy driving meaningful change in a growing Australian mining technology business expanding on the global stage?

At RCR Mining Technologies, we’re entering an exciting phase of growth. As we scale into new global markets, especially North America, we’re building the systems, processes and capability to grow with confidence.

We’re looking for a Principal - Improvement & Innovation to join our Strategy, Growth & Innovation team. This is a hands-on, high-impact role that will lead business improvement projects, coach teams in continuous improvement methods, and help us embed smarter, more connected ways of working across the entire business.

**What does this role actually do?**

Here’s a taste of what you might be doing in an average week:

- Facilitating a workshop with a site team to streamline a key process
- Partnering with IT to roll out a new dashboard or reporting tool
- Piloting a digital support innovation like digital work management or AI-driven analytics
- Helping Product Support close the feedback loop between service data and design
- Leading a project to reduce spares lead time or improve service workflows
- Coaching a team in Lean or Six Sigma techniques
- Exploring global best practice in digital transformation and CI methods
- Building the business case for a new system or process automation initiative

You’ll be hands-on with projects, act as a trusted advisor to leaders, and bring structure, insight, and creativity to how we operate and grow — both locally and globally. You’ll also play a key role in bridging business needs with IT capabilities to ensure technology solutions deliver real impact.

**What We’re Looking For**

You’ll thrive in this role if you are:

- A passionate improvement leader with experience driving change in manufacturing or customer service environments
- Digitally confident and systems-savvy, someone who can quickly understand how systems work, identify improvement opportunities, and collaborate with IT to deliver solutions
- Excited by the potential of tools like AI, automation, IoT and BI to make work easier and smarter
- Comfortable coaching and facilitating across all levels of the business
- Energised by solving real business problems, and seeing your work deliver real results
- Curious, hands-on, and excited to help build a high-performance culture

Experience in Lean, Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt), performance reporting, and systems implementation will be highly regarded, along with your ability to lead projects that deliver measurable, sustained value.

**Why Join RCR?**
- **Lead meaningful improvement** - Work across the company to help make us better
- **Global Growth** - Be part of a team shaping RCR’s international expansion
- **Inclusive culture** - We foster a values-based, supportive work environment where your voice is heard
- **Flexibility** - Flexible work options that support life and career
- **Purpose and impact** - Be part of a small, values led, high-performing team that exists to make the whole business better

**About Us**

RCR Mining Technologies (part of NRW Holdings) is an established Australian business with over 50 years of history in providing innovative materials handling solutions to the resources sector. With a strong reputation for engineering excellence, we are now focused on expanding internationally and leading the way in customer experience, innovation, and sustainability.

If you’re ready to drive improvement that matters, and help a growing Australian business scale internationally — **we’d love to hear from you**.