Job Description
Workplace Type: Onsite
About Newmont
At Newmont, we’re not just a world-leading gold and metals producer – we’re a team united by our commitment to shaping a more inclusive, sustainable, and responsible mining industry. Joining us means becoming part of a global, diverse workforce where everyone is valued, empowered, and encouraged to grow. Our people are the heart of our success, bringing exceptional skill, integrity, and dedication to everything we do as an organization and we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive.
About Lihir
Our Lihir Operation, located on the beautiful island of Niolam, approximately 800km north of Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby, is one of the world’s largest gold mines. Set within a geothermically active, extinct volcanic crater, Lihir operates an open-pit mine producing refractory ore, which undergoes pressure oxidation and conventional leaching to recover gold. Our workforce includes both residential and commute rosters, creating a diverse and dynamic team. Lihir offers a range of recreational facilities, including a gym, sports club, restaurant, bar, swimming pool, tennis and squash courts, and a 9-hole golf course. For those who enjoy the outdoors, the Lihir fishing and boating clubs provide access to pristine waters and beaches, while our onsite deli and café serve fresh local and imported produce, barista-made coffee, and freshly baked goods.
We are proud to work closely with the local Lihirian community and value its vibrant culture. Through initiatives like our School to Mine program, we offer meaningful employment, training, and development opportunities for Lihirian men and women, as well as scholarships and vocational apprenticeships. We also partner with the New Ireland Province to ensure economic benefits flow directly to the community, strengthening our commitment to sustainable development and positive local impact.
Purpose
The FE Maintenance Supervisor provides frontline leadership to maintenance crews, ensuring safe, high quality, and efficient execution of daily work. This role drives work compliance, task assignment, job pack delivery, and the accurate completion of work orders, while maintaining a strong focus on safety and operational performance. The Supervisor is accountable for clear communication between teams, ensuring planned and unplanned work is completed to standard, and that equipment is returned to service safely and reliably. With a strong presence in the field, this role leads by example, champions continuous improvement, and plays a critical part in achieving equipment availability and production targets.
Essential Duties
- Front line leader of trades/crews.
- Directly manages maintainers and daily execution.
- Execution management & crew leadership.
- Assigning tasks, ensuring safety, scanning WOs, QA/QC in real time.
- Finds defects during execution.
- Raises & approves notifications.
- Sets corrective task priority.
- Provides labour insight, skills, tooling, and readiness information.
- Confirms if plans support safe execution.
- Final sequence of work on the ground.
- Signs off on schedules.
- Assigns daily tasks, issues job packs, ensures safety, oversees work.
- Records outcomes and QA/QC.
- Ensures WOs are scanned and progressed.
- Closes work orders and ensures correct data entry.
- Confirms time, materials, rotables, unused stock returns.
- Documents failure modes.
- Provides operational insights and field data.
- Identifies improvement opportunities from crew experience.
- Directly leads the maintenance crews.
- Ensures safety and daily work execution.
Training & Experience
- Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- 5 to 10 years mining experience in a similar role within the mining industry
- Experience with crushing conveyors, grinding mills and large slurry pumps
- A personal commitment to safety
Working Conditions
This is a FIFO role on a 21/21 roster.
At Newmont, our commitment to diversity and inclusion ensures that everyone can work to their full potential, free from discrimination, while respecting the cultures, religions, and governance of the regions in which we operate. Guided by our values of Safety, Integrity, Sustainability, Responsibility, and Inclusion, our Lihir team – 90% of which are Papua New Guinean – is dedicated to creating a culturally rich and supportive environment where meaningful, long-term connections can be formed within the industry.
We believe in the strength of our people and the positive impact we can create together. Newmont employees are rewarded with a competitive salary, flexible packaging options, and programs that recognize those who go above and beyond. We know no candidate meets every qualification listed, so if you share our values and feel you can make a meaningful contribution, we encourage you to apply – we’d love to hear from you!