Lead Heritage – Field

MinRes can offer you! 

• Lead the strategic integration of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage management at MinRes, setting standards for compliance, stakeholder engagement, and operational excellence across our projects.
• We invest in your career, with a focus on leadership, upskilling,trainingand development programs
• Live Your Best Life!Our benefits offer you access to deals,supportand discounts to help you unlock the important things in Life Health, Family, Recreation and Your Future with MinRes

The opportunity 

The Lead Heritage Field oversees MinRes’ Aboriginal cultural heritage field operations, ensuring consistent and best-practice outcomes across all projects and operational areas. Reporting to the Manager Heritage, this role develops and implements processes for safe and effective heritage survey delivery and on-ground compliance. You will drive leadership to Superintendent Heritage Field positions to optimise asset use, resource allocation, and team cohesion, and directly manages the Heritage Logistics Coordinator. The Lead Heritage Field is also responsible for designing and delivering training programmes for MinRes employees and contractors, as well as building and executing safety and compliance management systems. 

Keyresponsibilities: 

• Oversee the coordination of heritage field operations across all regions, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and compliance with governance frameworks and regulatory obligations.
• Collaborate with heritage leadership to align field activities with approvals processes, cultural heritage management plans, and compliance requirements.
• Establish and maintain effective systems for managing cultural materials in accordance with legislative, agreement, and Native Title Party obligations.
• Maintain oversight of heritage field resources and assets to ensure availability, suitability, and optimal utilisation across the portfolio.
• Provide expert input into Cultural Heritage Management Plans from an operational delivery perspective to ensure plans are practical, achievable, and compliant.
• Develop and implement longterm field strategy, including workforce capability, resource planning, and technology integration, to enhance efficiency and heritage protection outcomes.
• Monitor and assess heritage field performance, fostering operational excellence, continuous improvement, and consistent standards across all projects.

Whatisrequired? 

• Advanced degree in Archaeology, Anthropology, Cultural Heritage Management, or related field (highly desirable)
• Extensive experience specialisingin cultural heritage management witha significant portionin mining/resourcesindustry
• Strong heritage field operations experience, ideally in a leadership or coordination role across multiple geographic areas or projects
• Previous working knowledge of WAs Aboriginal heritage legislation and agreement frameworks.
• Provenleadershipexperienceideallymanaging multidisciplinary teams and collaborating with Traditional Owners/Native Title Parties.
• Strongtrack recordof developing and implementing strategic heritage management plans to meet business objectives
• Ability to communicate confidently, both in written and oral form, with strong cross-cultural communication skills, and ability to influence key internal and external stakeholders.

About Mineral Resources 

MinRes is a leading diversified resources company with extensive operations in lithium, iron ore,energyand mining services across Western Australia. With a focus on people and innovation, MinRes has become one of the ASXs best-performing companies since listing in .