Asset Health Lead - Strategy

Our Opportunity

Fortescue is seeking an experienced Asset Health Lead – Strategy to join our Asset Health & Performance team in Perth.

In this role, you will help shape what the future of Asset Health looks like across Fortescue — and why it matters to the business.

Working across a diverse portfolio including Heavy Mobile Equipment, Rail, Fixed Plant, Green Fleet and Energy Operations, you will develop and maintain our Asset Health strategy, identify capability and monitoring gaps, and help guide the transition toward more preventative and condition-based maintenance.

This is an opportunity to combine your technical Asset Health and reliability expertise with strategic thinking, commercial acumen and strong stakeholder engagement to influence how emerging technologies and data-driven solutions are adopted across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Asset Health strategy and supporting technical frameworks.
• Identify gaps and opportunities across Asset Health technology, monitoring coverage, processes and data capability.
• Develop and prioritise business cases for new technologies, capabilities and strategic initiatives based on value, risk and business needs.
• Define Asset Health indicators and measures to track asset condition, risk, program performance and business value.
• Support the transition toward preventative and condition-based maintenance through scalable, data-driven solutions.
• Guide the adoption of technologies including online and remote monitoring, automated alerting, analytics and emerging Asset Health solutions.
• Partner with site and central teams to improve the use of Asset Health data in maintenance and operational decision-making.
• Provide strategic guidance on cost-effective defect detection, monitoring and Asset Health solutions across multiple asset classes.

Qualifications and Experience

• Strong experience in Asset Health, reliability engineering, condition monitoring or maintenance strategy within mining or heavy industry.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing multi-year technical strategies, roadmaps or capability uplift programs.
• Experience translating technical opportunities into business cases, implementation plans and measurable business outcomes.
• Broad exposure across asset classes such as Heavy Mobile Equipment, Rail, Fixed Plant and green assets.
• Strong knowledge of condition-based maintenance, reliability, defect elimination and condition monitoring principles.
• Knowledge of Asset Health data, monitoring technologies, analytics, automated alerting and emerging technologies.
• Strong strategic thinking, technical problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across site and central teams.
• An Engineering degree or relevant Mechanical/Electrical trade qualification with substantial Asset Health or reliability experience, plus a current WA Driver’s Licence.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.