Operational Specialist - Fixed Plant Control

Our Opportunity

Location: Perth - Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people.
Roster: 5D/2R or 4D/3R (your choice)

We’re looking for someone who thrives in the thick of it — not just keeping operations running but driving real change across multiple control room environments.

As an Operational Specialist, you’ll be the go-to for supporting our supervisors and operators, leading high-impact projects, and making sure our control rooms across the West are humming. You’ll bring structure where it’s needed, back up the team where it matters, and push us forward where we can do better. This is a hands-on, people-first, outcomes-focused role.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning the day-to-day: support site supervisors, help manage performance, and make operations flow smoothly.
• Delivering results: lead and land key improvement projects and capital initiatives.
• Uplifting the team: develop practical training tools and coach team members to be their best.
• Driving consistency: help align processes and systems across sites, so we move together.
• Solving problems fast: jump in when things get stuck and find smarter ways to work.
• Building culture: be part of a team that’s proud of what it delivers, every shift.

Qualifications and Experience

• Solid experience running or supporting control room operations (multi-site is a bonus).
• A background in project delivery, continuous improvement, or operational leadership.
• A natural ability to connect with people — from supervisors to site techs to head office teams.
• Sharp thinking and a bias for action — you don’t sit on problems, you solve them.
• A focus on safety, performance, and bringing others along for the ride.

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.