Superintendent Draglines

About the Role

This is a senior leadership position responsible for the operational oversight of the 'Largest Dragline fleet in the Southern Hemisphere'. You will be instrumental in driving safe, efficient, and cost-effective overburden removal and coal exposure, directly contributing to the mine's overall production success.

What You'll Do

• Operational Management: Direct daily dragline operations, ensuring optimal digging sequences and strip mine methodologies to achieve ambitious overburden mining targets (BCM), maximise coal exposure and minimal coal loss.
• Safety & Compliance: Champion a zero harm culture. Ensure rigorous adherence to all Queensland mining regulations, safety standards, and environmental authority requirements within a demanding 24/7 operating environment.
• Fleet Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage a large team of dragline operators across multiple pits.
• Planning & Collaboration: Partner with Technical Services and Mine Planning teams to ensure pit advancement aligns with the long-term mine plan, focusing on efficient multi-seam coal extraction.
• Budget Control: Manage and control high-value operational budgets, ensuring cost-effective resource utilisation.

What You'll Bring

• Experience & Leadership: Extensive, proven experience in a Senior Supervisory or Superintendent role, specifically managing large dragline fleets in a complex open-cut coal environment.
• Technical Acumen: Deep technical understanding of dragline operations
• Qualifications: Relevant mining qualifications and experience.
• Mining Proficiency: Demonstrated ability to read, execute, and optimise complex dragline operating plans and strip mining techniques.
• Communication: Exceptional leadership and communication skills, capable of effectively engaging with operations, maintenance, technical teams, and senior site leadership.
• Focus: An unwavering commitment to operational excellence, safety, and continuous improvement.

Why Whitehaven Coal?

• Scale & Impact: Join one of Australia's most stable and significant coal producers and lead the operation of one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest dragline fleets.
• Growth: Blackwater Mine is a cornerstone asset with a projected mine life exceeding 50 years, offering long-term career stability and growth potential.
• Remuneration: Secure a highly competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package commensurate with the scale and responsibility of this senior role.
• Leadership Role: This is an opportunity to be a strategic decision-maker and leader in a pivotal part of Whitehaven Coal's expanding portfolio.

Whitehaven Coal is seeking an experienced Dragline Superintendent to oversee our crucial dragline operations at Blackwater Mine in Central Queensland.

• Safety
• Teamwork
• Respect
• Integrity
• Value
• Excellence