With over four years of site experience, Josephine has worked across a diverse range of operations, including underground open stoping, sub-level caving, block caving, and open-pit mining. She fulfilled a childhood dream of commodity price forecasting during a four-month secondment to BHP’s Strategy and Market Intelligence team. Her career spans multiple facets of the mining industry in both operational and corporate roles, covering commodities such as iron ore, nickel, copper, bauxite, and uranium. She has also gained expertise in mining engineering, metallurgy, environmental approvals, external auditing, and consulting.

Josephine is a passionate advocate for inclusion and diversity in engineering and is committed to nurturing the future pipeline of engineers. She has held numerous leadership roles, including Founding President and Co-Founder of Women in Engineering and Mathematical Sciences UWA, Chairperson of UWA Young Engineers, and Undergraduate Representative on the UWA Faculty of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Inclusion & Diversity Committee. Additionally, she served as Vice-President Careers of UEC, Treasurer of AusIMM UWA SC, and a WA Mining Club Young Professionals committee member.

Currently, Josephine contributes as an organising committee member for the 2021, 2022, and 2023 AusIMM New Leaders Conference, serves as the AusIMM New Professionals Network Ambassador for Western Australia, and holds a three-year term as a committee member of the AusIMM Mining Society.