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24/7 Industry
It deserves 24/7 workforce support.
01 — The Role
Senior Commercial Leadership Opportunity
Build the next pillarof ECD Workforce
Commercial Manager — Fixed Plant, Shutdowns & Projects
Join an established Queensland mining workforce business and lead the creation of a new market vertical, backed by more than 20 years of experience, proven operating infrastructure and purpose-built technology.
- Brisbane or Central Queensland
- Reporting directly to the Founder
- Working alongside the HME Operations Lead
- Confidential enquiries welcomed
Explore the Role
We are not looking for someone to inherit an established division. We are looking for someone to help build one.
02 — The Problem
The industry is readyfor something better
Mining operates around the clock. Too much of the workforce sector still operates as though it does not.
For decades, workers have been scheduled, mobilised, communicated with and paid through the same fragmented processes. Delays are accepted. Poor communication is normalised. People are too often treated as numbers.
We believe there is a better way.
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People First
Payroll, communication and reliability matter.
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Built to Improve
Technology should remove friction, not create more administration.
That belief became the foundation of ECD Workforce.
Story continues
03 — Our Story
Years
Built over 20 years.Ready for what comes next.
East Coast Diesel Service began with a simple idea: respond faster, supply the right people and support clients when others could not.
More than 20 years later, we are still supplying skilled maintenance personnel into Queensland mining operations — including at one of the first sites we began supporting.
That history matters. It means the next stage of the business is being built on real relationships, proven delivery and experience earned through changing markets.
East Coast Diesel Service
Workforce systems and technology
ECD Workforce
20+ years operating
Long-term mining relationships
Built on Heavy Mobile Equipment experience
But the business has grown beyond the name it started with.
ECD Workforce brings together our mining experience, workforce capability, people-first philosophy and purpose-built technology under a brand that reflects where we are going — not only where we have been.
We are not rebranding because we are trying to become something different.
We are rebranding because the business has outgrown the name it started with.
Next: The Founder's Vision
04 — The Founder's Vision
I'm not looking for someoneto fill a position.
I'm looking for someone to help build what comes next.
I started East Coast Diesel Service because I saw an opportunity in the market. Mining companies needed skilled maintenance people, but too often the providers were too slow to respond or simply could not supply the right people when it mattered.
Business ownership has always been in my blood. My father, grandfather and uncles all built businesses across the mechanical, transport and earthmoving industries. I was never wired to simply work for someone else. I wanted to prove I could build something on my own terms.
For an industry that operates 24 hours a day, the businesses supporting it should be prepared to do the same.
What continues to frustrate me is how little innovation exists in the labour sector. Workers are still scheduled, communicated with and paid through systems and habits that have barely changed in decades.
If someone is paid incorrectly, that matters.
If a supervisor calls at seven o’clock at night because someone has not turned up, that matters.
If technology can remove administration and allow good people to focus on relationships and delivery, that matters.
That is why we built ECD Connect. It is why we are evolving into ECD Workforce. And it is why this role matters.
I am not looking for someone to inherit a mature division. I am looking for someone who understands the Fixed Plant, Shutdown and Projects market and wants the opportunity to help build it.
Grant Fraser
Founder, ECD Workforce
Next: Cole's Perspective
05 — A Peer's Perspective
You won't be buildingthis alone.
You'll be working alongside people who understand what it takes to deliver.
Peer perspective
Peer interview coming soon
Cole Bowman
HME Operations Lead
Cole Bowman leads ECD's Heavy Mobile Equipment operations and has played a central role in strengthening how the business recruits, mobilises and supports its workforce.
The successful commercial leader will sit alongside Cole, with responsibility for building the Fixed Plant, Shutdowns and Projects vertical. Both roles will report directly to Grant Fraser.
Cole will share what it is like to work directly with Grant, how decisions are made inside ECD and what support the new commercial leader can expect.
The opportunity is to build your own market, while having an established operating platform behind you.
ECD already has recruitment, mobilisation, compliance, payroll, administration and operational support in place.
That means the new leader can focus on understanding the market, building relationships, identifying opportunities and helping shape how the new vertical develops.
The Heavy Mobile Equipment and Fixed Plant businesses will operate as complementary parts of ECD Workforce — sharing capability, systems, workforce knowledge and commercial opportunities.
Grant Fraser
Founder
Cole Bowman
HME Operations
New Commercial Leader
Fixed Plant, Shutdowns & Projects
Parallel leadership · Shared infrastructure
Direct Access
Work directly with the founder and leadership team.
Established Support
Recruitment, mobilisation, compliance and administration already exist.
Parallel Leadership
Build Fixed Plant alongside an established HME operation.
Room to Move
Good ideas can be tested and implemented without layers of corporate approval.
Next: The Technology Behind the Business
06 — Technology & ECD Connect
We don't just talkabout innovation.
We build the systems that make workforce delivery better.
Too much of the workforce sector still relies on disconnected spreadsheets, manual follow-up and fragmented communication.
ECD Connect is our response.
It is a purpose-built workforce platform designed around the real challenges of recruiting, mobilising, scheduling and supporting skilled people across complex mining operations.
ECD Connect · Interface concept
Recruitment Pipeline
Candidate profiles
Role matching
Market relationships
Workforce Bookings
Compliance Dashboard
Documentation and site-readiness interface placeholder
Worker App
Communication and information access
Timesheet Workflow
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Technology should remove friction, improve visibility and allow good people to focus on relationships and delivery.
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Recruitment
Build and manage candidate pipelines, worker profiles and market relationships.
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Mobilisation
Coordinate onboarding, compliance, documentation and site readiness.
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Workforce Scheduling
Manage bookings, shifts, availability and workforce movements.
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Worker Experience
Improve communication, access to information and engagement with the workforce.
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Timesheets & Approvals
Support cleaner time capture, validation, reporting and future automation.
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Client Visibility
Provide clearer information across workforce delivery, approvals and performance.
Commercial Relevance
Built to be taken to market
The successful commercial leader will not be selling labour alone.
They will be taking a more connected workforce model to clients — supported by systems that improve speed, communication, compliance and visibility.
Their experience in Fixed Plant, Shutdowns and Projects will also help influence how ECD Connect evolves for that market.
You will not only help build the market. You will help shape the tools used to serve it.
Product Direction
A platform designed to keep evolving
Operational Today
Recruitment · Scheduling · Workforce Management
Current operational capability
In Development
Compliance · Timesheet Automation · Approval Workflows
Development-stage capability — not yet complete
Future Direction
Predictive Workforce Planning · Client Analytics · Intelligent Automation
Exploratory direction — not a production commitment
Next: The Market You Will Build
07 — The Market You Will Build
This is not a marketyou will inherit.
It is one you will help create.
ECD has spent more than 20 years building capability and relationships across Heavy Mobile Equipment maintenance and skilled workforce supply.
The next stage is to establish a parallel market position across Fixed Plant, Shutdowns and Projects.
We are looking for someone who already understands that environment — the clients, the contractors, the commercial realities and the operational pressure that comes with planned and unplanned maintenance.
Market Focus
A clear place to begin. Room to build.
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Fixed Plant Maintenance
Mechanical, structural and maintenance workforce support across processing and materials-handling infrastructure.
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CHPP & Processing
Coal handling and preparation plants, conveyors, crushers and associated processing equipment.
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Shutdowns
Planned maintenance campaigns requiring rapid workforce mobilisation and disciplined delivery.
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Large Mining Assets
Draglines, electric rope shovels and larger maintenance programs outside ECD’s traditional mobile-equipment focus.
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Project-Based Work
Short and medium-duration packages where ECD can initially support labour requirements and progressively develop broader delivery capability.
ECD Workforce
Two complementary verticals
Established Pillar
Heavy Mobile Equipment
- Established market
- Existing delivery history
- Led operationally by Cole Bowman
New Growth Pillar
Fixed Plant, Shutdowns & Projects
- New growth vertical
- Led by the successful commercial appointment
- Built alongside the HME business
Shared Foundation
Recruitment
Mobilisation
Compliance
Payroll
Administration
ECD Connect
Existing mining relationships
Direct access to Grant Fraser
Complementary markets. Shared systems, capability and opportunities.
Strategic Scope
Your mandate
Shape a credible market position, then help the business turn that position into safe and reliable delivery.
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Identify and prioritise target clients and market segments.
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Build credible relationships with maintenance, project, procurement and operational leaders.
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Develop opportunities across workforce supply, shutdowns and project support.
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Help define how ECD presents and prices its fixed-plant offering.
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Work with Grant, Cole and the broader team to convert opportunities into safe, reliable delivery.
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Bring market insight into the future development of ECD Connect.
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Help determine when and where ECD should move beyond labour supply into defined work packages.
Commercial Progression
Build with discipline
Phase 1 — Establish
Build market relationships, secure initial workforce opportunities and establish credibility.
Phase 2 — Expand
Grow repeat work, broaden capability and develop a reliable fixed-plant workforce network.
Phase 3 — Deliver
Evaluate selected shutdown and maintenance packages where ECD can take greater responsibility for outcomes.
Later phases depend on demonstrated capability, client demand and disciplined execution. They are not presented as guaranteed outcomes.
Success is not simply winning the next labour order.Success is building a market position that becomes one of the major pillars of ECD Workforce.
You Bring
- Market experience
- Relationships
- Commercial judgement
- Fixed-plant and shutdown understanding
- The desire to build
ECD Brings
- An established business
- More than 20 years of history
- Operational support
- Workforce infrastructure
- Technology
- Investment and direct decision-making
The opportunity is to combine both.
Next: Start a Confidential Conversation
08 — Start the Conversation
Could this beyour next chapter?
You do not need to make a formal application to start the conversation.
The person we are looking for may already be successful, well regarded and comfortable where they are.
We understand that exploring an opportunity like this should begin privately.
If the vision, the market and the opportunity to build something meaningful resonate with you, we would welcome a confidential conversation.
We are not looking for hundreds of applicants.We are looking for one exceptional person who wants the opportunity to help build what comes next.