Shane Mcintosh

Key responsibilities:
• Effective management of a significant Opex and Capex budget
• Primary, Secondary, and Break down Maintenance on the Track. Including, Lube and grind, Steel replacements (SR&B/Frogs/IRJ), Rerails, Bog hole repairs, Level Crossing repairs, Track Renewals back to formation, Bridge renewals, TSR Removals, recoveries of defective wagons, derailments, ultrasonic defects, and Hi-rail runs.
• Logistics team management: Coordination and Delivery of assets and machinery
• Project Management of Minor Renewals
• Highly proficient in managing change
• Regular infield coaching with Leadership team, with a strong focus on cascaded coaching
• Provide ongoing guidance and education to Leaders within our team in relation to the HR process to ensure consistent application
• Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities for process improvements, implementing best practices, and exploring new technologies or methods to enhance track maintenance efficiency, reduce downtime, and increase the lifespan of the track assets.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborating with other departments, such as operations, engineering, renewals, and safety, to ensure seamless coordination and alignment of track maintenance activities. This involves, participating and facilitating meetings, providing updates, and addressing concerns and enquiries from stakeholders.
• Defect Elimination - Focus on Preventative maintenance and maintenance tactics
• Scheduling and Planning: Identifying opportunities and implementing processes to ensure we are maximizing our opportunities to reduce our footprint on the network whilst improving track health.

Act Locomotive Maintenance Superintendent:

A leadership role within the Rail Maintenance team responsible for the safe delivery of cost effective and reliable asset performance through execution of high-quality maintenance activities.

• Key responsibilities:
• Effective management of a significant Opex budget
• Facilitation of maintenance activities required to successfully deliver the first Autohaul® train between mine to port
• Effective transition of Autohaul® maintenance activities into the locomotive maintenance team
• Regular infield coaching with supervisory team
• Provide ongoing guidance and education to supervisors of HR processes to ensure consistent application
• Active promotion of continuous improvement initiatives to benefit safety, cost and production
• Collaboratively partner with engineering teams to reduce unscheduled loss on the network
• Improved locomotive reliability by implementing new processes
• Actively improved the defect elimination process for locomotives

Locomotive Maintenance Supervisor:

Responsible for the welfare and performance management of a team of maintenance personnel, with an underlying commitment to the availability and reliability of locomotives and brake cars.

• Key responsibilities:
• Leading and developing a medium sized maintenance team
• Supervising mechanical and electrical fitting of diesel-electric locomotives
• Advocate and recognise ongoing team participation in continuous improvement initiatives
• Liaising with Reliability Engineers to successfully deliver campaign maintenance
• Regular, effective coaching and feedback to all team members
• Identify and action pain points raised by team members
• Completed recruitment assessment centres
• Daily planning to ensure the safe and efficient execution of a work schedule
• Adherence to statutory and workplace inspections, audits and interactions
• Liaising with planners and coordinators to develop effective planned work schedules
• Focused approach to Work Management through utilising of SAP (time confirmations, supervisor cockpit, creating notifications/maintenance orders, creating purchase requisitions and service orders, utilisation of task lists)
• Supervision of locomotive breakdown attendance and derailment assistance
• Overseeing installation, repairs and commissioning of major mechanical change outs
• Incident investigation
• Hazard identification and control
• Communication of safety notices, procedural updates and change
• Dedicated approach to ensuring safety critical documents such as SWPs and TBCCCs are continuously updated and improved

Locomotive Maintenance Coordinator:

A leadership role within the Locomotive Maintenance team, ensuring locomotives were delivered for servicing or breakdown work and all parts required for repairs were readily available.

• Key responsibilities:
• Liaising with Rail Operations for the delivery of rolling stock
• Ensuring Locomotives/Brake cars were delivered on time and in the right location
• Raising purchase requisitions for workshop repairs/breakdowns
• Liaising with the warehouse to ensure all parts were delivered on time
• Formed close relationships with vendors
• Lead daily/weekly delay meetings
• Confirmed times in sap
• Ordered weekly consumables
• Raised notification/Maintenance orders for all PM03 through
• Created task lists for regular component change outs
• Completed workshop improvement projects
• Accountable for all PM03 work (Tracking/Delivery/Maintenance orders/Parts)
• Delay account and shift performance reporting
• Project work that helped remove bottlenecks from the trip service facility