Location: Jilalan Locomotive Depot
Remuneration/Benefit: Attractive Salary and bonus opportunity
About the role:
Provide effective frontline leadership to locomotive maintenance teams by supervising, directing, and organising the daily execution of service plans and business objectives. Drive performance and accountability to meet operational targets, while fostering a proactive safety culture aligned with the "I Know Safe, I Choose Safe" approach. Lead teams with a focus on continuous improvement, collaboration, and operational excellence.
You will be responsible for:
- Track rosters, on time performance, safety and deliverables against benchmarks and standards of performance
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and greater collaboration and implement plans to effectively address these areas and resolve issues.
- Ensure the allocated team has up to date training and competency and clear, current and measurable goals and objectives aligned to the operating plan and business targets.
- Build positive workplace relationships with allocated team including setting and monitoring of performance standards and behavioural standards, building a high-performance team, and managing performance, disciplinary matters.
- Take accountability for incident investigations within the area of responsibility and conduct timely, complete, detailed and factual investigations reports.
- Ensure all operational activities are compliant with relevant industrial instruments, safety management systems, company procedures, and legislative/statutory obligations.
About you:
You are a trade-qualified professional with proven frontline leadership experience in large-scale logistics or heavy industry, underpinned by a strong commitment to safety. A confident and engaging leader, you excel at building, sustaining, and coaching high-performing teams of skilled tradespeople.
- Ability to work a 24/7 shift roster
- Certificate IV/Diploma Frontline Management or equivalent.
- Experience in recovery of rollingstock delrailments (preferred).
- Well-developed Safety management skills and knowledge including incident investigation, safety interactions, near miss reporting and behaviour-based safety leadership.
- High level of skill in trouble shooting, fault rectification, minor repairs and the carrying out of preventative maintenance procedures on rollingstock or similar equipment.
- Demonstrated line leadership skills including task assignment, communication, problem solving and performance management.
- Demonstrated commercial acumen and customer relationship skills
- Aurizon's Frontline Leader Program (or willingness to obtain).
- Demonstrated project management skills and a clear understanding of the planning and scheduling process.
What we offer you:
At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities.
Some of our benefits include:
- Development and growth opportunities.
- Access to mentoring and development programs.
- Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
- Parental leave program and super booster.
About Aurizon.
Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets.
Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.
At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.
