Manager - Engineering & Capital Projects

Minara Resources has an opportunity for an experienced Engineering Manager to join our established and dedicated team.

Minara Resources is Australia’s largest cobalt producer and a major world producer of nickel. Our Murrin Murrin site in WA’s northern Goldfields is an integrated nickel and cobalt mining and processing operation employing over 1,000 people. We are a diverse, dedicated and driven workforce, building a sustainable business today with a focus on tomorrow.

Minara Resources is wholly owned by Glencore, one of the world’s largest globally diversified natural resources companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities. Glencore employs over 145,000 people operates around 150 operating mining and processing sites, oil production assets and agricultural facilities in over 35 countries.

The Role

This site-based leadership position reports to the General Manager and is responsible for the strategic oversight and operational delivery of the Engineering and Capital Project functions. The role leads multidisciplinary teams across structural, mechanical, electrical and project engineering to ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable asset performance aligned with business priorities.

You will be responsible for:

• Providing strong and visible leadership to a multidisciplinary engineering and project team.
• Delivering the capital projects portfolio safely, on time and within budget in a brownfield environment.
• Collaborating with operations and maintenance leadership to align priorities and resources across engineering and project activities.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and Australian Engineering Standards.
• Championing a culture of continuous improvement and leading initiatives to enhance plant availability, safety, and cost performance.
• Supporting the development of business cases for major asset improvements and monitoring project progress against KPIs.
• Managing budgets, reporting and stakeholder engagement for all project and engineering activities.

About You

You are a technically strong and people-focused leader, capable of managing a complex site-based portfolio. You bring a mix of capital project delivery, maintenance engineering and asset management experience, ideally in metallurgical or heavy industrial environments.

You will also have:

• Degree qualification in Engineering (Engineering Australia recognition preferred).
• At least 10 years’ experience in engineering, reliability and project delivery in mining, refining, or heavy industry environments.
• Demonstrated leadership capability with experience managing large multi-discipline teams.
• Strong understanding of relevant legislation, predictive maintenance strategies and budgeting processes.
• High-level stakeholder engagement and technical communication skills.

What We Offer

We offer a diverse range of opportunities across our multi-pit mining operations through to our complex and technically challenging hydrometallurgical process plant.

Also on offer:

• A permanent position working directly for Minara Resources
• The opportunity to work for a progressive industry leader in nickel mining and processing
• A work environment that prides itself on high safety standards
• A range of health and lifestyle benefits including our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• An excellent team culture with recognition and reward programs
• An attractive variable compensation program that creates a link between individual performance and company success
• The opportunity to take advantage of our impressive 100 kilometres of cycling and running tracks, premium on-site gym facilities with weekly fitness and sport programs
• An above industry standard superannuation contribution of 15%
• A generous private health insurance allowance
• Well established on-the-job training opportunities and development programs to further your technical and leadership skills
• The ability to salary sacrifice flights, parking, super and novated leasing etc.
• Relocation and visa support.

Apply now at www.glencore.com/careers