Manager - AI-Driven Maintenance Excellence

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth CBD

Roster: Monday to Friday 

Applications are encouraged from candidates seeking to relocate to Perth.

Fortescue is seeking a Manager – AI-Driven Maintenance Excellence to help drive measurable improvements in maintenance execution, with a strong initial focus on reliability maintenance planning and maintenance master data quality.

The primary purpose of this role is to improve asset management outcomes by defining and delivering AI systems and tools to strengthen reliability engineering, maintenance planning, maintenance strategies and master data management.

This role will work closely with site maintenance, planning, and reliability teams to embed these systems and tools, to drive their adoption and to measure their effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with maintenance and reliability leaders to identify pain points and translate them into AI-enabled solutions and systems, including improvements in:
• Preventive maintenance effectiveness
• Asset criticality and failure mode clarity
• Planning accuracy and schedule compliance
• Master data management
• Lead the program of work that includes in-house development and sourcing of AI-enabled solutions that enhance decision-making in maintenance planning and execution.
• Lead change management and adoption activities, designing and managing changes to ways of working to deliver sustainable outcomes.
• Track outcomes through clear execution-focused KPIs (e.g. availability, reliability, schedule compliance).
• Collaborate with engineering and systems teams to accelerate implementation and ensure these solutions are managed effectively across the product development lifecycle.
• Contribute to the development of internal capability at the intersection of asset management and AI.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated senior-level experience in maintenance, reliability, or asset management within asset-intensive industries is essential.
• Exposure to AI, advanced analytics, or decision-support tools is essential.
• Familiarity with modern product delivery or continuous improvement practices.
• Worked in owner-operator background preferred (mining, oil & gas, or heavy industry) is essential 
• Strong experience reliability maintenance planning and maintenance execution.
• Hands-on experience with SAP PM / EAM and maintenance master data is essential
• Proven ability to translate maintenance problems into process redesign
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across operations, engineering and digital.
• Demonstrated transformation delivery with tangible execution outcomes
• Strong change leadership capability, with evidence of driving adoption in operational environments.

About Us

Fortescue is a Western Australian based global resources company, established in 2003, with a strong iron ore business and a rapidly growing energy and green technology portfolio to support industrial decarbonisation.

We are evolving how maintenance is planned and executed  combining strong asset management fundamentals with AI-enabled decision support to improve reliability, safety, and productivity across our operations.

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.

https://fortescue.com/careers 

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.