Operating at an under resourced capacity most of the time with a aging fleet with next to no supportThe good thingsIn my many roles I got travel around a lot in the Pilbara and I got to work at many mine sites and saw how they operated. I also got to work in the Quarry plant and the manufacturing ANE plant in Port Hedland and various big to one man sites.
was a great place to learn and I definitely learnt a lot going from a Trainee MMU Operator to Supervisor. There are some very knowledgeable people there to learn from
The challengesI think because I had a lot of prior skills and able to operate solo and under pressure keeping aging assets operating and clients happy, I was always sent to failing or difficult projects to turn them around which after 7 years in the end put me through burnout, had given multiple warnings I was struggling with workload to multiple senior managers but that fell on deaf ears, the hard part for me in the end was the lying and lack of humility from territory managers and business manager of the Pilbara team. Upon returning to work after burnout I was sent straight back to working in the same environment where I had an incident then fired. Transparency, accountability and safety seem to be their values but only on the posters in the office.
A great place to start your mining fifo journey then move on. Stay away from the one man sites as the workload is too much and there is no support when stuff breaks down and you soly have to answer to angry mining clients and come up with solutions.