Supervisor – Greta
- Permanent Opportunity
- Critical leadership role, managing our maintenance team in Greta!
- Rotating 12hour shift roster
About us
Pacific National (PN) is the largest private provider of diversified rail freight services in Australia. We haul a variety of freight including coal, intermodal containers, steel, and a range of bulk commodities and materials that keep the region’s economy, businesses and households running. We are a company built on solid foundations and we are incredibly proud of the essential role we continue to play supporting Australia’s supply chain. At Pacific National, we take great pride in delivering our best every day and have a relentless focus on customer service and place safety above all else.
We operate nationally with approximately 3,500 staff in over 90+ sites across Australia. We respect and care for the communities in which we operate and continue to evolve our community engagement and strengthen relationships through partnerships and investment. We are focused on reducing the carbon emissions of our business, while also enabling the reduction of carbon emissions in the broader supply chain to support the National targets.
About the Role
In this full-time permanent position your key accountability will be to provide leadership and guidance to a diverse team of employees in the day-to-day operations of our Wagon maintenance facility located in Greta.
The Supervisor Wagon Maintenance is responsible for ensuring Pacific National has the capacity and capability to manage the maintenance execution activities, identifying, delivering and driving change to support business operational requirements and asset utilisation targets. A key focus will be lifting the quality of the maintenance output.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Inspiring and leading a team of safety-focused people by supervising, coordinating and managing resources
- Developing and maintaining the knowledge, skills and attributes required of your team with a focus on coaching, mentoring, and safety
- Management of daily priorities to achieve maintenance execution requirements
- Coordination of the safe execution of work, effective distribution of labour across maintenance and other activities
- Setting of team priorities on a shift-by-shift basis and management of contractor resources
- People leadership and delivery of change management initiatives to support business goals
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have a strong safety background and:
- Maintenance background in the rail or heavy industry
- Experience in leading, coaching, and motivating a team in a busy environment
- Proven strengths in problem solving and analytical ability
- Experience in building and developing a multi-faceted team with a key focus on driving a strong safety culture
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to communicate at all levels
The benefits
At Pacific National we value diversity, inclusion and the contribution of each team member. Our values underpin our commitment to create an inclusive culture where everyone is accepted and valued for who they are, enabling everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.
When you join the Pacific National team, you’ll be encouraged to take ownership of your career and we’ll be there to support you with a range of exciting initiatives including:
- Industry leading programs focussed on your growth and career development
- Paid parental leave up to 14 weeks, with superannuation - after only 6 months service
- Parental benefits for birth, surrogacy, adoption, foster care, and kinship care
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Flexible working arrangements (subject to business needs)
- A focus on your mental health and wellbeing through our PeerConnect program
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, administered by Benestar, offering confidential counselling services for employees and their eligible family members, paid for by us at no cost to you
- Access to Unmind, a digital platform that gives you access to tools, training and exercises that will support your mental wellbeing
- Discounted fitness and wellbeing benefits with membership to WhereFit, our wellbeing benefits partner
- Novated leasing and discounts on selected health insurance funds, travel, retail brands, vehicles and more
We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for women, and you can visit our Work180 page Pacific National | WORK180 Endorsed Employer to find out more including a list of all of our benefits and policies.
We are seeking applicants who share our values: Make it simple, Share More, Kindness, Gratitude, Curiosity, and Own it. These values help us achieve strong connections with everyone we work with and play an important part in motivating us all to do our best work.
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
If you need an adjustment in the recruitment process, please outline at the time of your application.
Closing date
Applications close 18th April 2024.
Next steps
Are you ready to be part of our future?
To apply, please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the prompts.
To find out more about Pacific National, our benefits and opportunities we offer, visit our careers page: www.pacificnational.com.au/careers
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live and rail. We pay respect to Elders past, present and future and to the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.