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Fixed & Mobile Plant Maintenance

Trade roles keeping processing plants and mobile equipment running, consistently one of the largest categories of mining job ads by volume.

What it involves: Scheduled and breakdown maintenance on fixed plant (crushers, conveyors, mills) or mobile equipment (haul trucks, excavators, dozers), depending on the role.

Typical requirements: A trade qualification (diesel fitter, boilermaker, auto electrician, or similar). See the getting-into-mining guide for how trade backgrounds transfer in.

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Common rosters for this job

From live fixed & mobile plant maintenance ads that state a roster. Six weeks shown; teal is time on site.

  • 7/77 days on, 7 days off · 50% of the year on site26 jobs
  • 2/12 weeks on, 1 week off · 67% of the year on site23 jobs
  • 8/68 days on, 6 days off · 57% of the year on site8 jobs
  • 2/22 weeks on, 2 weeks off · 50% of the year on site6 jobs

146 live fixed & mobile plant maintenance roles

Kinross Gold

Maintenance Manager

1h ago
  • Kettle Falls, Washington State, US
  • Gold
  • via careers site
$165,000–$185,000/yr

Macmahon

LV Fitter

6h ago
  • Reefton, NZ
  • 7/7
  • Gold
  • via careers site

Macmahon

Drill Fitter

6h ago
  • Reefton, NZ
  • FIFO 7/7
  • Gold
  • via careers site

Gold Fields

Fitter

6d ago
  • ZA
  • Gold
  • via careers site

ICL Group

Fitter

12d ago
  • Loftus, GB
  • via careers site

Macmahon

Boilermaker

12d ago
  • Perth Airport, WA (Residential), Western Australia, AU
  • via careers site

Macmahon

Auto Electrician

12d ago
  • Telfer, WA, Western Australia, AU
  • FIFO 2/1
  • via careers site

Macmahon

Tyre Fitter

12d ago
  • Tropicana, Kalgoorlie, AU
  • FIFO 2/1
  • via careers site

Mineral Resources

Supervisor MEM

12d ago
  • Port Hedland, Western Australia, AU
  • via careers site
Fixed & Mobile Plant Maintenance jobs: what it involves & requirements · FiFoDiDo