Principal Underground Mining Specialist

15 hours ago

Australia Gold Fields Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Join a high-impact team shaping the future of underground mining performance at Gold Fields to deliver safe, reliable, cost effective and consistently stable operations.

As part of our Asset Optimisation team, the Principal Specialist Underground Mining will play a pivotal role in strategic decision-making, operational improvement, performance optimisation, and ensuring consistency across our underground operations. You'll provide leadership and collaborative influence across Gold Fields, championing best practice underground mining to help sites achieve their business plans.

You'll drive underground mining excellence by offering technical and operational guidance, promoting safety and risk awareness, and supporting performance across the Group. A key part of your role will be mentoring and influencing operational leaders to embed improvements that consistently deliver on business objectives. You'll benchmark KPIs and technologies, while identifying and managing operational risks and opportunities across regions to support stable and consistent operations.

This Perth-based role is offered on a permanent full-time basis, with travel to site and flexibility to work across time zones and outside standard hours is essential.

The successful candidate will bring extensive underground mining experience with a Mining Engineering degree. Your deep technical expertise spans underground mining operations, fleet performance and continuous improvement. You bring strong project and financial modelling skills, with the ability to manage complex tasks across regions and influence stakeholders at all levels. As a strategic and collaborative leader, you are known for your resilience, adaptability, and drive to deliver results.

Gold Fields pride themselves on offering competitive remuneration packages with short and long-term bonuses, along with benefits including private health insurance allowance, access to Long Service Leave after 5 years, and both salary continuance and life insurance.

At Gold Fields, we are dedicated to creating a workplace culture that reflects our commitment to our core values, emphasizes safety, and drives high performance, to help us fulfill our purpose of creating enduring value beyond mining.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 9 NOVEMBER 2025

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We work across geographies, with diverse teams and cultures. This diversity of talents, backgrounds, experience, and knowledge drives our growth and ability to deliver safe, reliable and sustainable production with lasting value for all our stakeholders. We are committed to continue building a safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and follow an inclusive recruitment process with all qualified applicants considered.

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