Product Owner - Operations AI

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Fortescue Centre - Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people.

Roster: Monday to Friday 

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity. The key mission of this role will be to drive the roadmap, agile delivery and adoption of innovative software and systems to deliver on this vision. The right candidate will bring familiarity and interest in AI-based operations transformation and digital decision support, experience in building close relationships with operations stakeholders, and a passion for product management and agile delivery in cross-functional teams 

Key Responsibilities

• Create a purpose-led, high-performing culture within your delivery team that is aligned with the company values, and is laser-focused on delivering value for your customers and the wider company
• Leverage innovation, thought leadership, and domain expertise to develop a vision for AI systems and solutions that deliver significant value to company
• Develop and communicate business cases for new AI systems and solutions, including value opportunity sizing, delivery model, and stakeholder alignment
• Conduct data analysis and user research to identify core business problems, design innovative solutions, and evangelise these with end-users and stakeholders to get buy-in
• Within scope evaluate existing and emerging technologies and/or solutions that can accelerate value delivery, direct existing development, or initiate new strategic direction
• Develop, maintain, and communicate roadmap for AI system and solution work programs to stakeholders throughout the company
• Build, groom and prioritise product backlogs, developing user stories and acceptance criteria and managing product teams to ensure timely and high quality delivery
• Define, implement, and track performance metrics once solutions enter production including adoption and impact, with a strong focus on real-world value delivery
• In collaboration with technical leadership, define the set of necessary competencies and skills required in the delivery team
• Drive user adoption and engagement, running demos and showcases to the target users and the broader business
• Support development and implementation of training and change management programs for delivered technologies

Qualifications and Experience

• Domain expertise with technical project delivery experience in one or more of the following areas;
  • Production scheduling
  • Mine engineering
  • Mine Control
  • Geostatistics and geological modelling
  • Green energy and green hydrogen projects, green technology
• Experience in the application and/or development of AI & digital decision support solutions and systems to drive improvements in mining, renewable energy, or heavy industrial applications
• Experience with application of machine learning, optimization, simulation, and/or industrial mathematics in mining, renewable energy, or heavy industrial applications
• Experience in cross-functional teams and ability to communicate effectively across multiple business areas (e.g., operations, technology)
• Experience with modern product development including Agile and OKR methodologies, lean testing and user research, product roadmap development, and vision creation

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.

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.