Make your mark with Thiess
As a global business, we are proud to offer diverse and rewarding career opportunities. We are committed to Thiess being a company that supports great people to succeed, develop their careers, and feel supported to reach their highest potential. We offer a safe and inclusive work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
Every day, all around the world, Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent and reward transparency. We champion diversity and embrace change.
Join us. Hone your skills and develop new ones. Take on big challenges and grow through mentorship, collaboration, and empowerment.
Thiess is the place to make things happen
Thiess is built on a proud history of delivering excellence in mining for over 90 years. With a team of 15,000+ across multiple continents, we blend world-class talent and cutting-edge technology to shape a sustainable mining future.
About The Role
The primary purpose of this role is guiding and supporting the design, establishment and adoption of systems that embed an operational improvement culture to deliver sustainable value and performance across Australia by:
- Establishing integrated analytics, consolidation and reporting systems that identify, validate and manage improvement strategies.
- Establishing a Power BI model/supporting the existing model to track and disseminate improvement strategies across projects and functional departments.
- Driving consistent and best practice operational performance reporting.
- Ensuring compliance with business governance requirements.
Additionally, you will:
- Drives delivery of work tasks to ensure team and business goals are achieved.
- Supports others in the team to ensure delivery of results and improvements.
- Effectively coordinates efforts across teams and stakeholders to achieve results .
- Deals effectively with issues, conflict and problems and escalates matters for resolution as required.
- Actively supports and champions change initiatives across the business.
- Understand critical risks in work area and reassess hazards if changes occur in the work area.
- Familiar with and applies the standards and procedures relevant to job.
- Stop the job if in doubt and fix the problem or warn people of any danger.
- Share knowledge with others and contribute to team discussions and meetings.
- Works autonomously and with minimal oversight to complete most work activities .
- Builds rapport and strong working relationships across a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Listens and communicates clearly to influence stakeholders (verbally and in writing).
- Works autonomously and with minimal oversight to complete most work activities .
- Builds rapport and strong working relationships across a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Listens and communicates clearly to influence stakeholders (verbally and in writing).
- Actively keeps team members and stakeholders informed of work activities and outcomes.
- Actively keeps team members and stakeholders informed of work activities and outcomes.
- Actively participate in the development of an operational improvement culture across the Australia business.
- Communication of operational improvement processes with key stakeholders.
- Develop a strategy to effectively integrate systems/processes across multiple departments such as Finance, Planning, Ops Tech, Data Science, etc. to enable seamless workflows and reporting
- Establish an integrated analytics and reporting process/system to identify, validate and manage improvement strategies
- Establish a system to track and disseminate improvement strategies across projects and functional departments.
- Integrate operational and financial reporting systems to enable an improved and more efficient Business Planning process.
About You
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in an applicable discipline (Engineering, Sciences, Business, Finance, etc.)
- Preferable - experience with reporting/analytics architecture and tools (not for programming but to assist with defining possibilities) for achieving business outcomes.
- Preferable Power BI experience and infoMine.
- Exposure to IT/Finance/Engineering.
- Mining industry exposure is beneficial.
- Understanding of business wide and operational performance analytic principles and processes.
- Understanding and/or demonstration operational improvement processes.
- Understanding of business system and process integration to support improved business efficiency and performance outcomes.
- Understanding of how information is best displayed/presented to drive sustainable improvements.
- Understanding of the operational aspects of contract mining.
- Understanding of business drivers and finance/commercial aspects of contract mining.
- Understanding of estimating and budget/forecast development processes of contract mining.
- Ability to interrogate business systems and process and determine critical touch and potential integration points.
- Excellent communication (both written and oral), relationship management and influencing skills.
- Excellent critical thinking skills and the ability to understand complex business issues and how these relate to performance and financial outcomes.
- Ability to influence and guide process and system owners and stakeholders to achieve best for business outcomes
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to challenge status quo or unacceptable performance.
What Thiess Can Do for You
- Help to grow your career, offering diverse and varied opportunities for advancement
- Flexible working arrangements
- Recently renovated corporate head office located in South Bank, Brisbane
- World-class health & wellbeing programs
- On-site gymnasium
- Salary sacrifice options
- A range of corporate discounts, including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products
- Referral bonus program
About Us
Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia, and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.
The pioneering spirit of our founders – the legendary Thiess brothers – is our legacy and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.
At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition and developing services to enable sustainable mining.
We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning – supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining.
We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration, and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers.
We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of everyone matters always. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best selves to work because they feel safe, included, and empowered.
Learn more http://thiess.com/makeyourmark
Should you require assistance applying for this opportunity, please contact us at [email protected]
How to Apply
This role is an opportunity to take the next step in your career. With our culture of recognition, development, and a stimulating and satisfying work environment, there is no better time to join Thiess.
Thiess follows a Pre-Employment Process for all successful applicants, which includes two employment references, a National Police Check, and a medical assessment. These checks are essential to your application, and your recruiter will support you through the process.
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