Scheduler - Services & Backfill
Newmont
Job Description
Your Role
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Your Impact
Reporting to the Services and Backfill Superintendent, the Services & Backfill Scheduler provides operational and scheduling support to the Services and Backfill department, comprising Underground Paste Fill, Shotcreting, and Mine Services. The role requires close collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure Underground Paste Fill, Shotcreting and Mine Services works are planned, scheduled, and executed in alignment with operational requirements
As part of our team, you will
- Provide leadership for Shift Supervisors and Mining Crews to enable the safe and effective delivery of paste fill, mine services, and shotcreting activities.
- Provide coverage for the Mine Services and Backfill Superintendent during rostered days off.
- Plan and monitor underground paste reticulation installations and maintenance in line with approved schedules and standards.
- Ensure underground services are installed and maintained to a high operational and safety standard.
- Manage business partners and contractors through effective work scheduling, coordination, and performance oversight.
- Engage peers and stakeholders to support effective problem solving, planning, and continuous improvement.
Prerequisites for your success in this role
- Proven experience managing paste backfill systems, including paste plants and reticulation networks.
- Demonstrated capability in underground services management, including ventilation, dewatering, compressed air, and fixed infrastructure.
- Knowledge of shotcrete and ground support standards, including QA/QC processes, compliance auditing, and continuous improvement practices.
- Ability to coordinate multi‑disciplinary teams (operations, maintenance, technical services, business partners and projects) to achieve targets.
- Experience developing and reviewing operating procedures, standards, and work instructions for underground backfill and services activities.
- Demonstrated commitment to safety leadership, workforce engagement, and coaching, fostering a strong safety culture underground.
Your Work Environment
- FIFO 8:6 roster
- Reside in our fully equipped accommodation village
- Approved point-of-hire locations: Darwin, Alice Springs, Perth and Brisbane
What’s on Offer
- Industry-competitive remuneration package
- Annual performance incentives
- FIFO allowance
- Health & Wellbeing Allowance
- Access to employee benefits, career development and progression opportunities with a global organisation
Join us and play a critical role in maintaining a safe, reliable and high-performing underground operation.
Apply now and be part of a team committed to safety, performance and excellence.
We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
Our business success comes from the accomplishments and well-being of our employees and contractors. Our goal is to build a workplace culture that allows every person to thrive, participate, grow, and proudly play an active role in achieving our strategy.
Newmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, placing and promoting the best individual for each position without regard to personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, social and indigenous origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, etc.
We invite women and applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply, particularly First Nations persons of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island descent. Newmont acknowledges First Nations People and respects their enduring connection to Country from which their culture, spirituality, and identity flow.
More About Newmont
- Website: http://www.newmont.com
- Lifecycle of a Mine: https://www.newmont.com/lifecycle-of-a-mine/
- Blog: https://www.newmont.com/blog-stories/
- Annual sustainability report: https://www.newmont.com/sustainability/sustainability-reporting/
Note: Newmont does not ask individuals to pay money to apply or be considered for employment or to provide sensitive personal data without first submitting a job application through our secure, online portal. If you are asked to do either, do not respond and please report this immediately to it.sec@newmont.com.
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