Covalent Lithium

General

• Coordinate, and manage shutdown plans, schedules, and work scopes for fixed plant maintenance and project activities.
• Coordinate resources, labour, contractors, equipment, materials, tooling, and services required for shutdown execution.
• Facilitate shutdown planning meetings and liaise with key stakeholders to ensure scope alignment and readiness.
• Monitor shutdown progress and adjust priorities to ensure critical path activities are completed on schedule.
• Identify and manage shutdown risks, constraints, and opportunities to improve safety, productivity, and efficiency.
• Ensure all shutdown work complies with site safety, environmental, and statutory requirements.
• Proactively engage with the Operations Coordinators to support the coordination of permit requirements, isolations, access arrangements and shutdown logistics.
• Coordinate high-risk work activities including confined space entry, hot work, working at heights, lifting operations and electrical isolations to ensure critical controls are implemented and maintained.
• Monitor contractor performance and ensure work is completed to the required quality standards.
• Track shutdown costs, resource utilisation, and schedule performance against approved plans.
• Provide regular progress updates and reports to maintenance and operational leadership teams.
• Facilitate effective communication between all shutdown stakeholders before, during, and after execution.
• Lead shutdown close-out activities, including work order completion, reporting, lessons learned, and continuous improvement reviews.
• Support the development and optimisation of shutdown management processes, systems, and procedures.
• Ensure accurate documentation and maintenance history updates within the CMMS.
• Contribute to the preparation of budgets, including personnel, capital justification and the collation of data on a systematic basis for progressive forecasting and future estimating.
• Drive the reduction of overall costs as relates to shutdowns.
• Manage relevant expenditure to remain within approved budget and forecasts in compliance with commercial protocols and procedures.
• Demonstrate visible safety leadership and promote a strong safety culture aligned with Covalent’s values.
• Build collaborative relationships across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Planning, and contractor teams.
• Drive accountability for shutdown performance, quality, and schedule adherence.
• Promote continuous improvement through effective planning, execution reviews, and lessons learned.
• Maintain a proactive and solutions-focused approach to managing shutdown challenges and competing priorities.
• Actively lead and participate in the establishment of a health and safety culture, leading by example, and setting the required health and safety standards.
• Ensure a safe working environment where all work is undertaken in a safe and efficient manner, in accordance with statutory requirements and Covalent policies & procedures.
• Ensure all health, safety and environmental incidents are reported, investigated, and appropriate corrective action taken to prevent recurrence.

Coordinator Shutdown – Mt Holland