About us

K92 Mining Limited are the owners the high-grade Kainantu Gold Mine in Eastern Highlands Province. Since commencing operations in 2016, we have delivered consistent production growth. More importantly, we have contributed significantly to the economy of Papua New Guinea, more than 90% of our employees and contractors are from PNG and our local education and skills development initiatives which include scholarships, traineeships and adult literacy programs continue to bring significant benefit the communities in which we operate. 

We are now transforming the operation with a new 1.2 mtpa process plant as well as extensive construction and expansion across site that will see us triple the output from our mine by 2027. In addition to our ongoing production success, we have an extensive exploration programme across our highly prospective tenement, making K92 a great place to build a long-term career.

About the role

Joining our operational services maintenance team, The Supervisor Electrical is responsible for the safe and effective coordination of personnel engaged in electrical maintenance across camp facilities, the diesel-powered power station and the surface high-voltage and low-voltage distribution network. The role is accountable for maintaining electrical asset availability and reliability, ensuring faults and defects are investigated and rectified in a timely manner, and maintaining compliance with site standards, statutory requirements and safe work practices.

Key Accountabilities

• Accountable for the safe, compliant and effective delivery of electrical maintenance within the Operational Services area, including adherence to statutory, site and electrical safety requirements.
• Accountable for the availability, reliability and maintainability of electrical assets supporting the diesel power station, HV/LV distribution network, camp facilities and associated surface infrastructure.
• Own the electrical maintenance priorities, standards and performance for the area, ensuring critical defects, repeat failures and maintenance risks are identified, escalated and controlled.
• Ensure the electrical workforce is appropriately supervised, competent, authorised and developed to safely perform the work assigned to them.
• Maintain effective coordination with Planning, Operations, Engineering, Projects, Procurement, Contracts and other stakeholders so electrical work is aligned with operational priorities and site requirements.
• Accountable for electrical maintenance cost control, annual maintenance schedules, budget input, contractor performance and appropriate use of labour, materials and external services.
• Ensure maintenance performance, plant condition, significant defects, statutory issues and key risks are accurately reported to management, and support improvement and project activities that enhance asset performance.
• Identify, monitor and escalate risks to generation, network reliability, and coordinate maintenance actions to minimise operational impact.
• Direct the day-to-day activities of Electricians, Technician Electricians, Trade Assistants and Apprentices, including pre-start allocation, task clarification, field support and confirmation that assigned work is completed safely and to the required standard.
• Review incoming electrical work requests and work orders, confirm scope and priority, and ensure sufficient technical detail is available before work is scheduled or released for execution.
• Liaise with Maintenance Planners and Schedulers to build executable daily, weekly, shutdown and outage plans, confirming labour, parts, tooling, permits, isolations, access requirements and specialist support.
• Monitor work-order progress during execution and ensure completed jobs are technically closed out with accurate labour, materials, failure information, test results, follow-up actions and equipment history.
• Participate in backlog reviews and identify work requiring escalation because of safety, statutory, production, generation-capacity or network-reliability risk.
• Coordinate electrical access, switching and isolation requirements with Operations and authorised HV personnel so maintenance and outage work can be performed without creating unacceptable network or operational risk.
• Identify critical electrical spares required to support generation and distribution assets
• Coordinate fault response and investigation for electrical trips, equipment failures and repeat defects, ensuring first-out information, operating conditions, inspection findings, test results, corrective actions and root-cause information are captured where applicable.
• Act as HV Switching Supervisor where authorised, ensuring all switching, isolation, commissioning and restoration activities are planned, risk assessed and executed in accordance with site procedures.
• Interface with Power Station Operations, Engineering, Projects, Procurement, Contracts, HSE and other relevant stakeholders to resolve maintenance constraints, technical issues, materials requirements and operational conflicts.
• Coordinate electrical contractors, OEM representatives and specialist service providers while on site, including scope clarification, work-front readiness, quality verification and completion documentation.
• Verify the quality of completed electrical work through field inspection, testing records and close-out review, and initiate corrective action where workmanship, compliance or documentation does not meet requirements.
• Coach and develop electrical tradespersons through field mentoring, task observation, skills transfer and identification of competency, training and authorisation gaps.
• Provide clear shift and roster handovers covering plant status, outstanding defects, work in progress, isolated equipment, critical backlog items, planned outages and matters requiring management attention.

About You

To be considered for this role, it is essential that you have a NATTB Trade Certificate. You will also need to demonstrate experience in the installation and maintenance of power distribution systems, transformers, motor control centres and starters. In addition to this, you will have some or all the following.

• Five (5) years’ experience working in a mining environment.
• Must be a Registered Mine Electrician (or ability to obtain accreditation) and maintain the registration/authorisation required to perform electrical work at a mine site.
• Must maintain a current electrician licence and any other electrical authorisations required by applicable government and site regulations.
• High Voltage Awareness and Switching Certificate; current HV switching competency/authorisation is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in the installation, operation, maintenance and fault finding of electrical power distribution systems, including transformers, HV/LV switchgear, motor control centres, transfer systems, starters and associated protection and control equipment.
• Previous hands-on supervisory or technical experience in a diesel-powered power station is essential, with practical knowledge of diesel generator operation, synchronising, load sharing, generator protection and station electrical systems.
• Experience using CMMS systems (preferably Pronto)
• Experience supervising planned and corrective maintenance in an operating industrial or mining environment, with a strong focus on equipment availability, reliability and safe execution.
• Strong fault-finding capability across electrical plant and ancillary equipment, including general light and power circuits, motors, pumps, chillers, air-conditioning systems and camp/facilities equipment.
• Ability to interpret electrical drawings, single-line diagrams, schematics, OEM manuals and technical specifications.
• Experience in maintenance planning, work order management, contractor supervision, reporting, budgeting and continuous improvement activities.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to develop national employees, apprentices and trade assistants and coordinate work across multiple departments.

Life at K92 

K92 is an Equal Opportunity Employer, our commitment is to respect the rights of every individual to work to their highest potential, free from discrimination.  Our values of Collaboration, Accountability, Respect for others, Excellence and Safety are at the core of everything we do, and they are the foundation upon which our success has been built.

Our camp is well managed and provides residents with good, healthy meals made from locally sourced fresh produce as well as internet, cable tv and a gymnasium.

At K92, we want all employees to share in our success, so as well as a competitive salary, employees also participate in our long- and short-term incentive plans, we also provide employees with access to savings incentive programs, medical assistance and the option to salary sacrifice for certain expenses.

In addition to all of this, employees can also access our Wellbeing and employee assistance programs whilst working a friendly roster. 

THIS POSITION IS OPEN ONLY TO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE & WORK IN PNG WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP