Wagon Supervisor

Wagon Maintenance Supervisor

• Great leadership opportunity – Opportunity to grow within the business.
• Permanent position located in Nebo
• Work within a critical area of the business
• Day Shift rotating lifestyle 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

As the Wagon Maintenance Supervisor, you are responsible to plan and coordinate maintenance activities and resources allocated to the maintenance site, including activities on and off site.

In-line with this, you will ensure that all safety requirements are achieved, and all work is carried out in accordance with Pacific National technical and quality standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure, comply and promote the Safety Health and Environment of the site through the implementation and maintenance of organisational systems, programs and procedures. Continually review and update site-specific safety processors and strive for improved safety performance.
• Manage the daily production to achieve the business division’s wagon requirements in an efficient manner; this shall include appropriate resource allocation.
• Coordinate the whole work area including:

1. Activities for the PMs/repairs to wagons out of service.
2. Activities for the repairs to plant and equipment within workshop
3. Setting of work priorities for the team in a shift-by-shift basis

• Liaise with the Nebo Capacity Planner and develop weekly and daily resource plans to achieve requirements.
• Liaise with the customer/ business divisions planning and production staff to coordinate wagon placement, release forecasting and wagon pick up.
• Undertake wagon preventative maintenance, repairs and incident response.
• Ensure maintenance activities are undertaken in accordance with safety, technical and quality standards.
• Ensure staff and contractors under their control comply with Pacific National policy and procedures.
• Supervise and handle grievances within the local work area.
• Manage repairs in line with the depot budget.
• Liaise with Maintenance Planners/Technical Personnel on wagon issues.
• Ensure that the requirements of the service level agreements are complied with.

About you

You will be an excellent and articulate communicator with appropriate maintenance background and people management experience whilst demonstrating exceptional organisational and problem-solving skills. 

In addition, you will have:

• Appropriate related trade background or engineering qualification.
• Proven experience in maintenance management, preferably in a rail industry/related transport environment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in rolling stock performance, technical details and maintenance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability and experience in supervision of trade and non-trade employees on and off site.
• Frontline management experience
• Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise varied maintenance tasks to meet customer requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage a maintenance budget.

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: 

• Opportunities for growth and career development 
• Access to mentoring programs 
• 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
• 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 https://work180.com/en-au/for-women/employer/pacific-national 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 3rd May 2024

Next steps

Are you ready to be part of our future?

To apply, please click on the 'Apply' button below 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.