Control Systems Senior Engineer

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people.

Roster: Monday to Friday

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Fortescue is on a mission to fully decarbonise our Pilbara iron ore operations, and expanding renewable power infrastructure is at the core of making this bold transformation a reality. We’re building a future where electric haul trucks, green energy systems, and real-time optimisation redefine what’s possible in mining — and we’re looking for a Senior Energy Systems Engineer who can help make that future happen.

The Senior Energy Systems Engineer role is a Fortescue’s subject matter expert responsible for designing, modelling, analysing and optimising the integrated renewable power infrastructure required to decarbonise the entirety of Fortescue’s Pilbara “pit to port” mining value chain.

This includes the optimal design and operational strategies for “Pilbara-wide” power generation, storage & transmission infrastructure as well as each individual mine-site’s power distribution network that will supply energy to the electrified mining fleet.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, coding & supporting simulation, modelling & analytical tools used to optimise the design and future operating strategies of Fortescue’s Pilbara-wide integrated energy balance and Fortescue’s mine-site distribution power networks
• Performing techno-economic analysis with the integrated energy balance model(s) to support investment decisions including identify the optimal combination of technologies and capacity of infrastructure and equipment required for Fortescue Decarb
• Performing system constraints, capacity & capability analysis for mine-site distribution power network design to inform ongoing infrastructure & equipment investment and re-deployment decisions.
• Supporting the development of systems and tools for use by Fortescue Operations in Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch (SCUC/SCED) decisions and control in the transition to a grid with very high penetration of variable renewables.   
• Transferring knowledge and capability into other Fortescue functions to support ongoing development and operation of Fortescue’s renewable power infrastructure

Qualifications and Experience

• A strong technical understanding of renewable energy power generation and power demand in a remote mining context, including factors determining variability (highly desirable)
• Experience in modelling and analysing time usage models or equivalent in a power system or mining context (highly desirable)
• Experience in working with industry standard Power system models such as PLEXOS and power system engineering tools such as Power Factory (highly desirable)
• Strong capability to program in Python or an equivalent software language appropriate for analytical application development
• Familiarity with relevant database technologies for operational data in a mining and energy context
• Familiarity with optimisation techniques and tools appropriate for optimising models and simulations of dynamic systems
• Degree qualified engineer, ideally in an electrical domain (mining/chemical/process or mechanical also encouraged to apply)
• +5 years industry experience, ideally in mining and/or power grid operations or design

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.