Advisor, Permits

Your impact

At Newmont, every shutdown is an opportunity to improve safety, reliability, and operational performance. As our Advisor, Permitting (Front End), you will play a critical role in ensuring major processing plant shutdowns are planned and executed safely, efficiently, and seamlessly. You'll be the connection point between Operations, Maintenance, and Shutdown Teams, ensuring permitting, isolation, and energy control standards are maintained while driving operational excellence across complex shutdown activities.

As part of our team, you will

• Lead the operational permitting and planning requirements for major processing plant shutdowns.
• Partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, Safety, and Shutdown Planning teams to ensure shutdown readiness and successful execution.
• Review emergent and late work scopes to ensure they are fully integrated into operational ramp-down and isolation plans.
• Facilitate shutdown planning, scheduling, and progress meetings, providing clear communication and alignment across stakeholder groups.
• Champion safety by ensuring compliance with Permit to Work, Isolation, and Energy Control standards.
• Coach and mentor operational teams to improve planning quality, incident management, and continuous improvement outcomes.
• Maintain operational shutdown organisational structures and ensure responsibilities are clearly understood and communicated.
• Develop detailed post-shutdown reports, capturing lessons learned and identifying opportunities for future improvement.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and proactive risk management.

Prerequisites for your success in this role

You'll bring:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience within mineral processing or a heavy industrial processing environment.
• Strong experience supporting, planning, or coordinating major shutdown activities.
• Knowledge of permitting, isolation, energy control, and operational risk management processes.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and build credibility across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated leadership capability through coaching, mentoring, and developing others.
• A high level of organisation, attention to detail, and time management.
• Experience preparing operational documentation including shutdown plans and post-shutdown reports.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and SAP proficiency.
• Exposure to IntelliPermit or similar permitting systems will be highly regarded.
• Relevant processing qualifications, tertiary education, or metalliferous processing competencies will be advantageous.

Your work environment

You'll join a collaborative operational leadership team supporting the Front End Processing function at Lihir.

This role offers unique exposure to site leadership and significant opportunities to develop your operational expertise, leadership capability, and strategic shutdown planning skills. If you're passionate about continuous improvement, mentoring others, and making a measurable impact on operational performance, you'll find both challenge and reward in this position.

Working Conditions

This role is offered on a 21:21 Fly in, Fly out (FIFO) roster to Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

Our FIFO employees stay in a secure and comfortable camp, in an en-suited and airconditioned room equipped with mini fridge, TV and Wi-Fi. A variety of healthy meal options are catered for at our mess; and the wet mess provides a relaxed social setting where employees can unwind with a game of pool or darts.

Why join Newmont

At Newmont, you'll join a team committed to safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. We value diverse perspectives, empower our people to challenge the status quo, and invest in career development pathways that help our people grow and succeed.
If you're ready to bring your shutdown expertise, operational knowledge, and leadership capability to a role where your impact will be seen every day, we'd love to hear from you.

Submit your application through our website quoting reference number 44162 before the advertised closing date: 3 September 2026.