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Geographe offers apprenticeship opportunities primarily in engineering and manufacturing fields. Our program focuses on providing hands-on experience and nationally recognised training in machining, fitting, and welding.
To apply for an apprenticeship at Geographe, applicants must meet specific eligibility criteria including minimum age requirements, educational qualifications, and relevant work experience. It's essential to review these criteria before applying.
We recommend you thoroughly research Geographe's operations and values. Tailor your resume and cover letter to highlight relevant skills and experiences, and address questions such as why you want to work for Geographe and what makes you a great fit for our business.
After preparing your application, you can submit it either through Geographe's SEEK listing or by emailing it to people.geographe@geographe.com.au. Ensure your application is comprehensive and addresses all the required components.
If your application is shortlisted, you will be invited to attend an interview. Be prepared to discuss your interest in Geographe's apprenticeship program, your suitability for the role, and your support network for committing to a four-year apprenticeship. Practice common interview questions to ensure you're ready.
Geographe's apprenticeship program typically lasts for four years and combines on-the-job training with technical sessions conducted by a Registered Training Organisation. This structure aims to help apprentices develop practical skills and knowledge for their future careers in manufacturing and engineering.
Enhanced Performance (EP) parts are specifically engineered to solve common challenges mine sites face, optimising the performance, durability, and efficiency of machinery used in mining operations. Enhanced Performance parts incorporate advanced materials, innovative designs, and rigorous testing by enhancing the current design, offering superior resistance to wear, corrosion, and impact, resulting in extended service life and reduced downtime to achieve operational excellence.
Thermal lancing is a cutting process that uses a mixture of oxygen and fuel to create a high-temperature flame for cutting through metal or other materials. The process involves a thermal lance, which is a long steel tube.
This is a widely used technique in mining operations to remove worn or seized components in earthmoving equipment. Thermal lancing is incredibly time-consuming and comes with inherent risks that can jeopardise worker safety such as respiratory risks, severe burns, eye injuries, toxic fume emissions, as well as being a fire hazard.
Enhanced Performance (EP) significantly supports maintenance events as parts are designed to last longer, reducing the frequency of maintenance intervals.
Geographe EP parts ensure optimal performance, enabling machines to reach the required number of operating hours before the next maintenance event. EP parts can also increase safety in maintenance events by eliminating the need for hazardous practices like thermal lancing or hot works.
Our Enhanced Performance (EP) solutions can also simplify the process of ordering and utilising components by offering kits that bundle various necessary parts under a single part number.
The cost-effectiveness of Geographe EP Parts stems from their engineered development, specifically designed to address on-site challenges. These parts not only provide better-performing replacement components and promote safer work practices but also offer long-term cost savings. By reducing labour costs and increasing product longevity, our EP range minimises the need for frequent change-outs. As a result, customers benefit from improved performance, enhanced safety, and reduced maintenance expenses, making EP Parts a highly cost-effective solution.
EP Parts significantly reduce downtime by improving maintenance practices and enhancing operational performance. Through innovative solutions such as colleted/greaseable pins, enhanced ball studs, and top hat bushes, Geographe EP Parts offer several benefits such as faster pin replacement, eliminating the need for time-consuming thermal lancing; improved durability and performance, enabling longer operational hours; and enhanced longevity of critical components, minimising the need for frequent replacements. These advantages collectively contribute to reduced downtime, lower maintenance costs, and increased operational efficiency for our customers.
Specialised Tooling refers to the development and production of custom tools tailored to meet specific requirements in various industries. The Geographe engineering team design purpose-built tools that are precisely crafted to address unique challenges encountered during maintenance, repair, and other operational processes in the mining sector. These tools are engineered to optimise efficiency, accuracy, and safety, empowering professionals to carry out their tasks with effectiveness and confidence.
Through our expertise in Specialised Tooling, Geographe provides industry-specific solutions that contribute to the overall success of mining maintenance activities.
Specialised Tooling creates safer maintenance by eliminating high risk practices and the need for additional equipment. Specialised Tooling increases efficiencies and streamlines operations enhancing operator safety.
Geographe’s Ball Stud Removal Tool (BSRT) won the 2021 Innovative Mining Solution award at the Australian Mining Prospect Awards
Together with Western Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group, Geographe sought to find a solution to the challenges FMG were facing when removing seized ball studs. The solution was a lightweight, single-person operated BSRT, that's now used around the world by companies including FMG, BHP and Newmont.
Geographe Specialised Tooling solutions have a direct and positive impact on the bottom line by reducing labour costs and the hours required for maintenance installations and removals.
With tools such as the Ball Stud Removal Tool (BSRT) which allow for efficient seamless removal of ball studs, customers can achieve significant cost savings and increased productivity – factors that contribute to long-term financial benefits.
We focus on Enhanced Performance Parts and Specialised Tooling to improve mining maintenance efficiency and reduce operational risk.
By listening to our clients and analysing their outcomes with OEM parts, our team uses cutting-edge technology to enhance parts and support miners with their maintenance and safety challenges.
Our EP parts can reduce the regularity of maintenance events, while the use of our Specialised Tooling reduces the duration of these maintenance events.
By reducing maintenance events, there are fewer personnel exposed to associated risks. Our EP parts and Specialised Tooling solutions are designed to remove the need for hot works and other dangerous maintenance practices.
Geographe’s R&D team executes rigorous internal and mine site based testing with all new developments. By leveraging our in-house metallurgical facilities and working to ISO9001 quality assurance, we can ensure traceability on materials and associated manufacturing processes.
Our Specialised Tooling is designed to be more user-friendly and cost-effective when compared to traditional tooling. Our EP parts feature material, heat treatment and tolerancing improvements that are designed to increase the mean time between failure (MTBF).
Yes, in-house or site visits can be arranged to train and advise on all our products.
Significant cost savings have been experienced through fewer maintenance events and more efficient part replacements. To learn more about them and how we can enhance your mine site operations, contact our team.
Our response and agility enable us to react quickly. Our in-house engineering, metallurgical and comprehensive automated manufacturing facilities allow us to maintain control over everything from the design prototype to the final production.
We offer several components in the Geographe Replacement Parts portfolio, including pins, bushes, shafts, collars, end plates, gears, racks, wheels, rollers and associated rotating equipment.
Our standard replacement parts are of equal or better specification than OEM components. As an ISO 9001 quality-certified company, we use an independent, climate-controlled inspection area where the temperature is monitored to be consistent 24 hours a day. All manufactured parts undergo rigorous statistical inspection within this environment against drawing specifications and process dependencies to ensure their accuracy and completeness.
By leveraging traditional and cutting-edge digital measuring equipment with Bluetooth connectivity, Geographe automates inspection reports during part inspections for efficient, accurate reporting and absolute consistency.
We manufacture high-quality replacement parts that can be expected to perform as well or better than the OEM.
Our response and agility enable us to react quickly. we have in-house engineering, metallurgical and comprehensive automated manufacturing facilities to maintain control over everything from design prototype to the final production.
To ensure traceability, Geographe has systems in place that provide an audit trail for the verification of materials used during manufacture and their origin, the product’s design details, and its full manufacturing process. Each part manufactured by Geographe is labelled with a unique job number which logs these details related to the batch in which they were made.
Geographe recognises the critical importance of enhancing safety during maintenance and operational practices in the industry. With a growing reputation for innovation, safety, and collaboration, we have extended our support to Asia, offering solutions to optimise fleet performance with our Specialised Tooling and Enhanced Performance (EP) parts.
Geographe facilitate the supply of parts to Asian mine sites directly across the region. Additionally, we have established local distribution channels on specific continents to streamline and expedite the delivery process, ensuring that mining operations receive our parts and tooling promptly and efficiently.
To discuss our distribution partners, please book a call here.
Geographe offers services in the overhaul and manufacturing of gear-related products. Additionally, Geographe provides a comprehensive in-house service for the manufacture of gears, including casting, heat treatment, gear tooth profile milling, and full-form gear grinding to DIN4 standards.
Our gearbox service and manufacturing facility is based in Kewdale, Western Australia.
Geographe can manufacture a wide range of gears, including:
- Casting (ferrous and non-ferrous)
- Heat treatment (gas carburising, quench & temper, induction hardening)
- Gear tooth profile milling, hobbing, shaping, and broaching
- Full-form gear grinding to DIN4
We service a variety of industrial gearboxes, including those from David Brown, Flender, Fenner, Hansen, Lightnin, Brevini, and Valmet.
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