Location: Mackay or Rockhampton
Remuneration/Benefit: Attractive Package offered
About the role: Reporting directly to the General Manager of Aurizon’s Network Operations, this is a challenging yet highly rewarding leadership opportunity. You’ll be supported by an exceptional team of superintendents and supervisors, while collaborating with a multidisciplinary group to ensure contractual obligations are delivered safely on time, and within budget.
As a key leader, you will foster a high-performance culture, drive operational excellence, and optimise asset utilisation. Your focus will include continuous improvement and effective engagement with a large, geographically dispersed workforce across Central Queensland
Key accountabilities include:
- Deliver a culture of safety, productivity, reliability, and customer service across a team of 300 permanent staff and daily support from a specialist contractor workforce.
- Budget oversight of over $100M, within your area of control, achieving budget outcomes through effective cost management, productivity initiatives with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Lead and manage major transformation programs and optimise asset management solutions.
- Manage geographically dispersed, multidisciplinary teams, and facilitate effective internal integration of supply and logistics chains.
- Support, advise and influence strategic and operational decision making of Network Operations to drive better business performance and commercial outcomes.
- As a manager of managers, develop and grow Network Operations leadership and trade core.
- Effectively represent Aurizon’s business interests with customers and local communities to meet operational business objectives.
What you bring to the role: You are a strategic leader with a track record of delivering results in heavy industry. Resilient and adaptable, you thrive in complex environments, driving transformation and fostering collaboration to achieve operational excellence.
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.
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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.
To learn about us and our company values, please visit www.aurizon.com.au/careers
