Engineering Manager - Asset Support
Challenging & Rewarding Leadership Role
Drive Engineering Excellence across the Global Asset Support business
Global Industry Leader + Attractive Package + Lifestyle Location
Leading and developing a growing team of Engineers, Draftspersons and other Technical personnel to ensure engineering excellence and world-class support of a fleet of in-service critical equipment, is what this position is about. To achieve this, you will need to understand as much about people, relationships and communication as you do about systems, technology and the design engineering process.
Established for thirty-seven years our client, Russell Mineral Equipment (RME), is the acknowledged world leader in grinding Mill Relining Systems. As an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), RME’s core competencies include quality design and manufacture as well as global distribution, after-sales service and mill relining and consulting services. Via a network of wholly-owned international subsidiaries, the organisation supports customers in more than 65 countries.
Reporting to the Group Manager - Asset Support, and in collaboration with other key stakeholders across the organisation, in this role you will apply your leadership, operational management competence, best practice knowledge and hands-on approach to leading and developing the Asset Support Engineering Team.
This will involve:
- ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of employees;
- managing, leading and developing the team;
- reviewing and communicating business objectives and priorities to the team;
- liaising with other departments and teams to ensure cross-functional alignment of processes and systems;
- ensuring that the team’s Engineering skills and capabilities are aligned to wider business requirements;
- ensuring technical control and compliance of Engineering activities;
- maintaining alignment between capacity and demand to ensure on-time delivery of profitable solutions; &
- related monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement.
Your ability to effectively lead and develop a multi-disciplinary technical cohort, while maintaining the day-to-day efficiency and effectiveness of the Asset Support Engineering function, coupled with your demonstrated interpersonal, analytical and organisational skills, strong relationship management skills and customer service ethic, commercial acumen and pragmatic approach, will underpin your success in this rewarding role.
Significant experience in the leadership and management of technical and/or engineering personnel is essential. Relevant tertiary qualifications (e.g. Engineering, Business, Project Management), experience managing a multi-disciplinary team, working in a structured Engineering Management System environment and with Product Lifecycle Management software will be a distinct advantage.
This role, which is becoming vacant due to an internal promotion, is based at RME’s Global Headquarters in Toowoomba, Queensland, and some domestic and international travel may be required. Applicants must currently reside, and be permitted to work permanently, in Australia and while all relevant applications are appreciated, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Our client is an equal opportunity employer.
Situated on the edge of the picturesque Great Dividing Range, less than 1.5 hours west of Brisbane and only two hours from both the Gold and Sunshine Coasts (and with direct flights daily to Sydney and Melbourne), the 'garden city' of Toowoomba is one of South East Queensland’s best kept secrets. This thriving regional community, Australia’s largest inland provincial city with 160,000 residents, offers affordable housing, world-class health, education, recreation and cultural facilities.
Please forward your application, quoting Ref. No. AS10523, by Wednesday, 17 May 2023 to applications@nexusexecutive.com.au