REGIONAL OPERATIONS MANAGER – QUARRIES
* Lead nine quarry operations across a large and diverse regional portfolio
* Take ownership of an approximately $95 million P&L and two million tonnes of annual sales
* Deliver significant operational, asset, resource development and capital priorities
Your next opportunity!
This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished quarrying leader to take responsibility for a significant regional portfolio within one of Australia’s leading construction materials organisations.
Reporting directly to the General Manager, you will lead nine quarry operations across Queensland and the Northern Territory, supported by experienced Quarry Managers and specialist leaders across assets, logistics, finance, commercial, property, sales and safety.
With an approximately $95 million P&L, annual sales of around two million tonnes and a substantial program of operational and capital investment, you will have genuine scope to shape performance, strengthen operational consistency and deliver lasting improvement across a diverse and commercially important portfolio.
The Opportunity
Your portfolio includes operations across Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Wide Bay, Toowoomba and Darwin.
The role may be based in Brisbane, Townsville or another practical Queensland location, with Mackay, Cairns and the Wide Bay-Burnett region also open for consideration. Regular travel across the portfolio will be required.
You will lead a group of Quarry Managers with varying levels of operational, commercial and leadership experience. Your role will be to establish credibility quickly, create a consistent operating cadence and ensure each site receives the right level of leadership, challenge and support.
Key priorities will include:
· Securing the long-term continuity of quarry resources and raw materials
· Improving fixed-plant productivity, reliability and cost-per-unit performance
· Delivering significant operational and capital projects
· Establishing consistent KPIs, operating metrics and performance disciplines
· Strengthening accountability and capability across the Quarry Manager group
· Implementing and embedding key quarry safety initiatives
· Maintaining safe, compliant and environmentally responsible operations
Planned and potential investment includes a new primary crushing circuit, significant fixed-plant development, sand quarry asset replacement and a range of resource development, stripping, mobile equipment and site infrastructure projects.
Your Responsibilities
You will be accountable for:
· Providing operational leadership across nine quarrying operations
· Leading, coaching and developing the portfolio’s Quarry Managers
· Managing an approximately $95 million regional P&L
· Delivering production, safety, cost, margin and operational performance outcomes
· Driving fixed-plant and mobile-equipment optimisation
· Developing business cases and leading operational input into capital projects
· Identifying and prioritising replacement, continuity and growth investment
· Ensuring long-term resource availability and operational continuity
· Building greater consistency and standardisation across the regional network
· Partnering with finance, commercial, assets, logistics, property, sales and safety teams
· Managing relationships with regulators, councils, communities and other stakeholders
· Maintaining strong site visibility through regular regional travel
What you will bring
This role requires more than broad heavy-industry leadership. You will need the technical and operational credibility to engage experienced Quarry Managers, understand what is happening beneath the headline numbers and challenge performance constructively.
You will bring:
· An open Site Senior Executive (SSE) qualification, or the background and capability to obtain the required Queensland qualification quickly
· Substantial operational leadership experience within quarrying, aggregates or a closely aligned environment
· Previous responsibility for a large quarry or multiple quarry operations
· A deep understanding of safe, productive and commercially successful quarry operations
· Strong financial literacy and previous accountability for operational P&Ls, budgets and forecasts
· Experience developing capital business cases and delivering complex operational or asset projects
· Knowledge of fixed-plant optimisation, crushing operations, mobile equipment and resource development
· Demonstrated success leading experienced operational managers across multiple locations
· Strong knowledge of quarry safety, environmental and regulatory requirements
· The ability to interpret operational and financial data and turn it into decisive action
· A proactive leadership style and the confidence to take ownership without waiting for direction
· The flexibility to travel regularly across Queensland and the Northern Territory
Applicants from mining or mineral-processing environments may be considered where they can demonstrate highly transferable quarrying knowledge. However, direct experience within quarries, sand or aggregates will be strongly preferred.
Why join?
This is a rare opportunity to lead a quarrying portfolio with genuine scale, complexity and organisational visibility.
You will have significant autonomy, direct access to the General Manager and the opportunity to influence substantial operational and capital investment. You will also be supported by an established team of specialists across finance, assets, logistics, commercial, property and safety.
The organisation is seeking a leader who can move confidently between portfolio strategy and site-level operations, someone who knows when to step into the detail, when to challenge and when to empower others.
If you combine deep quarrying knowledge with commercial discipline, authentic leadership and the ability to turn priorities into action, we would welcome a confidential discussion.
For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact Lorraine Thompson 0431 767 528 or simply follow the link and apply now. All enquiries and applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
Hinchen Recruitment Group are a team of experienced industry recruiters who offer a highly informative, honest process, where our genuine goal is to provide a quality and valued service. One that is respectful to all and is as transparent as possible. Confidentiality is assured with all applications, with your privacy our utmost priority.
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Regional Operations Manager - Quarries
Regional Operations Manager - Quarries
Work type: Full Time
Date posted: 03-Sep-2026
Location: Brisbane, QLD - QLD
Industry: Mining, Resources & Energy
Salary: + 10% STI
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