Your Impact

At Newmont, your expertise will truly make an impact. In this role, you will enhance equipment availability and reliability, improve schedule compliance, and drive meaningful knowledge transfer across the workforce. Through hands-on coaching, you will build technical capability, strengthen problem-solving skills, and support efficient, high-performing operations.

You will play a critical role in supporting and optimising heavy mobile equipment in the mining industry, including drills, excavators, and shovels, working across major OEM platforms such as Sandvik, Epiroc, Caterpillar, and Hitachi.

As part of our team, you will

Be a trusted technical partner, working closely with maintenance and operations teams to uplift capability and improve outcomes.

Your role will include:

• Coaching and mentoring the workforce in maintenance and troubleshooting activities.
• Providing technical support to maintenance and operations teams to resolve complex issues.
• Investigating, solving, and managing technical problems as they arise.
• Collating and analysing data to identify improvement opportunities and trends.
• Ensuring strict adherence to safety standards and compliance during all technical activities.
• Liaising with maintenance teams to coordinate timely and effective equipment repairs.
• Assisting in the development and delivery of technical training programs.
• Conducting regular inspections and audits of technical processes.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to technical and maintenance practices.
• Managing inventories of critical spare parts and equipment.
• Identifying risks, implementing mitigation strategies, and continuously monitoring risk exposure.

Prerequisites for your success in this role

To thrive in this position, you will bring a strong technical foundation and a practical, solutions-focused mindset, including:

• Trade Certificate (including auto electrical and air conditioning).
• Experience in technical support, maintenance, troubleshooting, data analysis, safety compliance, and process optimisation.
• Proven experience with heavy mining equipment, particularly drills, excavators, and shovels.
• Strong product knowledge across Sandvik, Epiroc, Caterpillar, and Hitachi equipment.
• Open-cut mining experience preferred.
• International assignment experience and the ability to work effectively in remote locations are advantageous.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a PNG Licence.
• Advanced technical capability in troubleshooting, process improvement, and safety systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyse complex information and turn insight into action.
• Experience in risk management and supporting technical training programs.
• Proactive, energetic, and able to work independently.
• Adaptable to change, with the ability to think creatively and “outside the box”.
• Self-aware, collaborative, and confident in giving and receiving feedback.

Your work environment

This role is offered on a 21:21 FIFO roster from Australia to tropical Lihir Island, PNG, with day shifts that may change to day and night shifts based on operational requirements.

Our FIFO employees stay in a secure and comfortable camp, in an en-suited and airconditioned room equipped with mini fridge, TV and Wi-Fi. A variety of healthy meal options are catered for at our mess; and the wet mess provides a relaxed social setting where employees can unwind with a game of pool or darts.

You will work in a collaborative, safety-first environment, partnering with supervisors, engineers, technicians, HSE teams, and external contractors and suppliers to drive continuous improvement.

Why Join Newmont

At Newmont, you’ll be part of a global leader in mining that values safety, integrity, sustainability, and people. We invest in our workforce, encourage innovation, and foster a culture where everyone is empowered to contribute, learn, and grow. By joining Newmont, you’re not just taking on a role you’re building a career where your skills, ideas, and commitment help shape the future of responsible mining.

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.