INDEPENDENT ADVISORY FOR INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS
Reshaping operational performance.
Mulga Advisory brings practitioners - not theorists - with deep domain expertise across the full operational lifecycle. Every engagement and every recommendation is grounded in operational experience. Every outcome is measurable.
20+
Years of operating and advisory experience
Independent
no vendor ties, no product to sell alongside the advice
The value wasn't the report. It was knowing exactly which three things to fix first, and why the rest could wait.
Operations director, mid-tier mining client
Built by operators, not consultants who visit site once.
Mulga Advisory is built by people who have led operations and asset management, from the workshop floor to a global functions.
Supported by a team built from proven operational and maintenance leaders from across the resource sector, directly experienced in the roles and reality you are facing today.
We assemble the expertise required to assess and address your business issues
Where we work
We address the whole system, not just the parts that are visible.
Performance & Productivity
Operating strategy and value chain performance
Supporting operations to produce more value, more reliably, at lower cost across the value chain. We design the operating rhythm and performance system that set what the operation produces and what it costs.
Maintenance & Reliability
Asset management strategy and operating model
Ensuring assets do what they are designed to do, when they are needed, from strategy through to execution. We design the asset management system and maintenance operating model, and set the strategy the specialist work is built to deliver.
Leadership & Culture
Leadership systems and organisational capability
Building the leadership, culture, routines and capability that turn good intent into sustained performance. We design the accountabilities, leadership routines and capability programmes that keep an operating system in place after the engagement closes.
Sectors we work across
Mining & minerals
Energy & utilities
Heavy manufacturing
Logistics & bulk handling
Industrial services
When operators bring us in
Most engagements start at one of five moments.
A performance uplift
Performance has fallen, or the operational bar has lifted, and the site needs a pathway it can resource, sequenced to stabilise, recover and sustain.
Operational readiness
A new asset, expansion or restart approaching handover, with the people, routines, spares and systems in place before the first day of operation.
Building leadership capabilities
Programmes for frontline leaders, asset management leaders and the people leading change, built from the firm’s own courses and cut to fit the operation.
A business transformation that has stalled
The programme is funded and announced, and the work on the floor has not changed. We find where it stalled and reset the sequence.
New technology on the ground
Putting technology to work by changing the roles, routines and decisions around it. The partners have led maintenance for one of the world’s largest autonomous haul truck fleets and asset management for a global miner.
How an engagement runs
We are ready to meet you where you are at, from an emerging problem to a fully-formed plan that needs support, or the desire for an external check on your operational controls.
Current state
From remote reads, site diagnostics or a leadership workshop, we engage with stakeholders, walk the operations and review documents to build a synthesis of current state and plans forward.
This will help us understand if we are the right team to support your operations.
Agree the pathway
We meet you and your teams where they are at in their operational maturity journey, building a plan that is owned and run by your teams, and supported by us where we add value.
Ensuring that the pace of change meets both your business objectives and the capacity of your site.
Deliver together
Working alongside those in your organisation that own the outcomes, we coach, support and drive the improvements.
Along the way we build processes, tools and capability to ensure the improvements are sustained after we leave.
Meet Our
Founding Partners
Mulga Advisory was founded on the view that most industrial businesses don't lack ideas – they lack a clear, sequenced view of what to do next, and the discipline to see it through.
We work in short, direct engagements: an assessment of current state, a set of priorities ranked by impact and effort, and a plan that a leadership team can actually run against without a second consulting bill.
Every engagement is led personally by a partner with direct operating experience in the sector – not handed to a graduate analyst after the pitch is won.
Ben Sharpe
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Two decades in global resources industry in asset management, projects and procurement roles across Australia, Asia, USA, London and Singapore.
Andrew Hosken
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Two decades across Rio Tinto’s Pilbara iron ore operations, from frontline leadership, business improvement and operational and maintenance senior leadership positions.
Every engagement starts with one conversation about the decision you are facing.
The conversation can start with what is not working, or with the decision in front of you. If an engagement would not help, we will say so.
Mulga Advisory. Independent advisory, built for industrial operations.
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