Technical Advisor - Hoisting

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer, the Technical Advisor – Hoisting provides specialist technical leadership and support for the reliability, statutory compliance, and maintenance of hoisting assets across site. The role works closely with maintenance, operations, and planning teams to optimise hoisting asset performance and support safe execution of maintenance and shutdown activities.

This position plays a critical role in maintaining the integrity of winders, ropes, conveyances, and shaft infrastructure while ensuring compliance with legislative and Australian Standard requirements.

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Developing and maintaining maintenance and monitoring strategies for hoisting assets
• Managing statutory inspection programs and ensuring critical controls are effective
• Supporting and coordinating hoisting shutdowns from planning through close-out
• Providing technical troubleshooting and leading root cause analysis activities
• Managing rope and attachment lifecycle tracking, inspections, and records
• Coordinating NDT, OEM, and specialist inspections and integrating outcomes
• Maintaining hoisting technical documentation, drawings, and work packs
• Coaching and mentoring maintenance teams on hoisting best practices and safe work methods

About you

You are a technically strong mechanical professional with significant experience in hoisting or shaft systems within mining or heavy industry. You bring deep technical knowledge, a structured approach to risk and compliance, and the ability to provide technical leadership without direct line management responsibility.

• You hold a mechanical engineering or relevant trade qualification, or equivalent hoisting experience
• Experience with winders, ropes, conveyances, brakes, sheaves, and shaft infrastructure
• Strong understanding of statutory compliance and inspection requirements
• Experience developing SWIs, SOPs, and technical documentation
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

About us

From humble beginnings in 2010, 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 a bold team with a bright future. Our operational diversity offers employees access to many experiences and career opportunities within the one company.

At Ernest Henry

At Ernest Henry, our mine life extension to 2040 and a doubling of ore reserves offers more operational diversity on site, and a bright future for our people and the community.

Your Benefits

At Evolution, we support, develop and reward everyone who chooses to be part of our bright future. Benefits include relocation assistance, salary packaging (novated leasing and remote area housing), quarterly bonuses, employee share scheme, referral bonuses, recognition programs, study assistance, discounted health insurance, and allowances for DIDO and local employees.

The roster for the roster is 8/6/7/7

At Ernest Henry, you can choose FIFO, DIDO, or local living in the close-knit community of Cloncurry. We understand flexible work means something different to everyone and encourage conversations about available options.

To find out more about us and our Ernest Henry Operation, click: here.

We thank you for taking the time to submit your application.