đ Work with world-renowned products and services.
đ Permanent full-time role.
đ° Competitive salary of $120,000 base, plus Super!
About Us:
Welcome to The Perth Mint, where golden career opportunities await.
The Perth Mint is an iconic Western Australian organisation operating on a truly global scale. Situated in East Perth for over 125 years, The Perth Mint is a premier tourist destination, an award-winning exporter, and a key supplier of precious metals to markets throughout the world. Our purpose is âto bring the wonder of precious metals to the worldâ.
Thereâs no organisation quite like it, with a variety of roles available, from engineers and chemists to artists and technicians.
The Opportunity:
Weâre looking for someone ready to step straight in, joining us in a permanent, full-time role based at our refinery site near the Perth Airport.
This is a hands-on laboratory role where your work is critical to the accuracy and integrity of our results. Working closely with the Manager Technical Laboratory, youâll commission and validate instrumentation and analytical methods, support daily testing, and help ensure everything we deliver meets the highest standards.
Youâll balance technical work with coordination - supporting quality control, compliance activities, and continuous improvement across the lab. Youâll also play a key role in building team capability, contributing to training, competency assessments, and consistent ways of working across instrumental and fire assay teams.
Itâs a role that combines precision, problem solving, and collaboration, ideal for someone who enjoys improving systems while staying close to the detail.
Roster:
To ensure consistent coverage across our rotating schedule, candidates must be able to commit to the set three-week roster cycle, which includes:
The rotation repeats every nine weeks, and reliability in following this structure is essential for the role.
About You:
You have a strong background in laboratory science, with experience in analytical instrumentation and wet chemistry - ideally within mining or precious metals. Exposure to ICP and XRF instruments, fire assay, and method validation will set you up for success.
Youâre detail oriented, organised, and confident managing priorities across testing, calibration, and compliance. When issues arise, you approach them calmly and methodically.
You also enjoy supporting others - sharing knowledge, contributing to training, and helping build capability across the team.
Most importantly, you take ownership of your work and are committed to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. A relevant tertiary qualification and practical laboratory experience are essential.
Our Benefits:
Itâs easy to dismiss the perfect opportunity if you donât see yourself as the perfect fit. If this role feels right, no matter your background or personal circumstances â please submit your application.
Applications close on 1 July 2026. The Perth Mint reserves the right to close applications prior to this date.
Candidates must have the right to work in Australia and pass our national security check.
The Perth Mint is Australiaâs largest fully integrated, innovative precious metals enterprise, providing premium gold, silver and platinum products and services to markets throughout the world.
Internationally renowned and respected for our quality, security, efficiency and technical expertise, our dynamic operation maintains its global standing by upholding the core values of excellence, ethics and equity, underpinned by an uncompromising focus on cost efficiency.
Holding accreditations with the worldâs top five trading centres, The Perth Mint produces significant volumes of physical metal for delivery to the leading investment markets. It owns and operates the only refinery in Australia which is certified by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) for gold and silver, and holds certifications by the New York Commodities Exchange, the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, the Tokyo Commodities Exchange and the Shanghai Gold Exchange.
The Perth Mint also provides the worldâs sole government guaranteed precious metals investment and storage program, and exports some $18 billion worth of pure gold, silver and platinum bullion bars and coins to investors in more than 100 countries annually.
Issuing an array of legal tender commemorative coins each year, The Perth Mint showcases Australiaâs icons to the world and celebrates a variety of popular universal themes, through the original artistry of its coin designs and creative concepts.
Located in Perth, Western Australia, and still operating in its original premises in the east end of the city, founded in 1899, The Perth Mint is a premier tourist destination. Its world-class visitor centre houses a dazzling Gold Exhibition which brings the story of Western Australian gold, and The Perth Mint, to life, while an elegantly appointed retail shop offers customers a selection of the Stateâs natural treasures, exquisite jewellery and giftware.
