Mining Executive Search and Recruitment

Placing Mining & Metals Leaders Who Change Your Operation 

Mining Executive Search Across Australia

With deep netwoPARTNER Executive is a specialist mining executive search firm based in Perth, Western Australia. We appoint senior leaders and executives across the full mining lifecycle, from exploration and study phase through project development, construction, commissioning, operations and processing.

Our clients are ASX listed producers and developers, private and foreign owned miners, mining contractors, and mining services and equipment businesses. We work across iron ore, gold, lithium, nickel, copper, bauxite and alumina, rare earths, mineral sands and bulk commodities, on operations in the Pilbara, Goldfields, Mid West, Kimberley and Yilgarn, and nationally across the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.

The executives who create value in mining are rarely applying for jobs. They are running production, delivering studies, commissioning plant and managing safety, cost and stakeholder pressure at the same time. Reaching them takes direct approach, sector credibility and discretion, which is what a retained search process is built for.

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• Executive and board appointments including CEO, Managing Director, COO, CFO, General Manager and Executive General Manager
• Site leadership including Mine Manager, Registered Manager, General Manager Operations, Processing Manager and Mill Manager
• Technical and study leadership across geology, mining engineering, metallurgy, resource development and project delivery
• Confidential and replacement searches where an incumbent is still in the seat
• FIFO, residential and Perth based corporate roles, with realistic advice on what each market will actually pay
• Market mapping, remuneration benchmarking and succession planning for clients not yet ready to appoint

Why Mining companies  Choose PARTNER Executive

Mining leadership is unforgiving. A general manager who performs in a mature iron ore operation will not necessarily succeed ramping up a first time producer, and a corporate executive from a major does not always adapt to a lean ASX listed developer where the whole team fits in one room. Getting the appointment right means understanding the stage the business is at, not just the sector it sits in.

We assess mining leaders on evidence rather than pedigree: safety performance and how it was achieved, production and cost outcomes against plan, the condition of the team they inherited compared to the one they left behind, and how they handled the year everything went wrong.

Our networks reach the people who are difficult to find through advertising, including operators on site who never look at job boards, executives on notice in confidential situations, and Australian mining leaders currently working offshore in Africa, South America, Canada and Central Asia who are ready to return.

Every search is retained, research led and run by the consultant you meet at the briefing. You see the market map, you know who has been approached, and you hear the honest version of what the market is telling us, including when it says your brief needs to change.

ROLES We RECRUIT IN MINING & METALS

We concentrate on search identifying leaders and executives who possess commercial acumen, appropriate sector experience for their role, and leadership capabilities that suit complex mining environments across Australia and beyond.

Commodities and Locations We Cover

Get in touch to discuss your Mining & Metal talent requirements.