Superintendent - Maintenance

Macmahon provides extensive mining, civil design and construction, performance enhancement, and site maintenance services across Australia and Southeast Asia. With a strong commitment to a values-based culture, we celebrate over 60 years of success and development.

Macmahon is seeking a results-driven Maintenance Superintendent to lead both mobile and fixed plant maintenance at our Byerwen operation. This is a key leadership role focused on delivering safe, compliant, and efficient maintenance outcomes across one of Queensland’s leading hard coking coal sites.

About the Role

• Conduct Safe Act Observations (SAOs) and proactively address unsafe behaviours or process deviations to uphold Macmahon’s safety standards and statutory obligations.
• Guide and support supervisors and trades in executing equipment repairs and overhauls, with a focus on minimising downtime and maximising fleet availability.
• Identify and implement optimisation initiatives across mobile and fixed plant maintenance to enhance efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Work closely with production and planning teams to align maintenance priorities with operational needs, ensuring plant reliability and availability targets are met.
• Monitor and enforce adherence to site standards, work instructions, and statutory procedures across all maintenance activities and personnel.

About You

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring:

• Proven leadership in open cut coal maintenance, ideally across both mobile and fixed plant environments.
• Strong technical knowledge of mining machinery, processing infrastructure, and shutdown coordination.
• S1, S2, S3, current Coal Board Medical, and relevant RIIs.
• Commitment to Macmahon’s safety-first culture and inclusive workforce value.

Employee Benefits

• Paid parental leave benefits.
• Continuous career development opportunities.
• Dedicated support for lifestyle, financial, and mental health.
• Access to exclusive employee discounts with Macmahon retail, vehicle, insurance, and banking partners.

Be More at Macmahon

Across Macmahon's team, you will find positive stories of people embracing opportunities to develop and grow their careers going on to celebrate impressive career milestones that contribute to our success. With over 9,000 highly skilled people in our team, we're proud of the values-based culture we have built over 60 years which is the driving force propelling our people to continually aspire to Be More.

About Macmahon

Macmahon is a leading Australian contract mining company with projects throughout Australia and Southeast Asia. Delivering a comprehensive range of surface and underground mining, civil design and construction, performance enhancement, and mine site maintenance and rehabilitation services to the resources sector.

Recruitment Process

Successful applicants must pass a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol screening, as well as criminal history and qualification checks. Proof of working rights in Australia (valid passport, birth certificate, citizenship certificate, or current visa grant notification) is also required.

Macmahon is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages suitably qualified women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to apply.

Macmahon Winning Values

United | Integrity | Courage | Pride