Leading Hand Light Vehicle Fitter
Evolution Mining
Job Description
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About the role
Reporting to the Light Vehicle Supervisor, this is a hands-on Leading Hand role where you’ll be on the tools while also running the crew day-to-day.
You’ll take the lead across your shift, executing the plan, allocating work, and making sure the job gets done safely and right the first time. You’ll be working on a mixed light vehicle fleet, keeping gear reliable and available for the operations team.
This isn’t a desk job. It’s about:
- Leading from the front and working alongside your crew
- Keeping the LV fleet maintained, serviced and ready to go
- Planning and prioritising work for the shift and adjusting when things change
- Managing breakdowns and keeping downtime to a minimum
- Making sure work orders, paperwork and handovers are done properly
- Coaching and developing your team to lift standards across the board
- Driving safety, holding the line on standards and calling things out when needed
You’ll also work closely with supervisors, planners and other departments to keep everything moving and support continuous improvement across the workshop.
About you
You’re a qualified Light Vehicle Fitter who knows your way around light vehicles particularly Toyota fleet and enjoys stepping up to lead a crew.
You take pride in your work, back your decisions, and don’t cut corners. You’re the kind of person others look to on shift — someone who sets the standard and keeps things running smoothly.
To be successful in this role, you’ll bring:
- Trade qualification (Light Vehicle Mechanical)
- Solid experience maintaining LV fleets in a mining or heavy industry environment
- Previous Leading Hand or strong step-up experience
- The ability to plan work, prioritise jobs and keep your crew on track
- Strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills
- A safety-first mindset
- Good communication
- A willingness to mentor others and build a strong team
- Hold (or are working towards) Section 26 Statutory Supervisor
Bonus if you:
- Have experience in underground operations or mine site operations
Most importantly, you’re reliable, you show up, and you get the job done right — every shift.
This roster is 7:7and a 12 hour day – Dayshift Only (Thursday to Thursday).
About us
From humble beginnings in 2011, Evolution Mining is now a leading gold producer, operating six mines across Australia and Canada. Enacting our vision to be inspired people creating a premier global gold company, we are indeed a bold team with a bright future. Our operational diversity offers our employees access to many experiences and career opportunities within the one company. So, whether you choose to work at one of our underground or open pit operations, explore for our future as part of our Discovery team, or join our Group Office, we know you’ll have a bright future with us.
At Mungari
At Mungari, now with a mine life through to 2038, our people have a longer future with opportunities to grow. With underground and open pit mining, and an expansion of the processing plant completed, the operational diversity and unique work experience is great for building and uplifting careers. Located in the Western Australia Goldfields, you can choose what suits your priorities. Work an attractive fly-in/fly out (FIFO) roster from Perth or live local and enjoy our close-knit communities and local lifestyles.
Your Benefits
At Evolution, we support, develop and reward everyone who chooses to be a part of our bright future. Your benefits include relocation assistance, salary packaging (i.e. novated car leasing, remote area housing), life insurance and income protection, quarterly performance bonuses, employee share scheme, referral bonuses, recognition program, study assistance, discounted health insurance and local employee benefits. At Evolution, as our name suggests, change and transformation is in our DNA. We want the Evolution experience to be your career highlight. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workforce that represents the communities in which we operate. We provide a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all and candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We are focused on keeping our people safe and healthy and creating sustainable value in an environmentally and socially responsible way. Join our bold team to start your next exciting chapter.
To find out more about us and Mungari, click here https://joinus.evolutionmining.com/
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