Reliability Engineer HME
About Us
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Our Opportunity
Work Location: Perth – Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people
Roster: Monday to Friday
Fortescue are currently seeking a Reliability Engineer to provide direct technical and maintenance engineering support for the Fortex AHS ecosystem technology kit and associated components, You will assist the Autonomy team to make well-informed hardware decisions to reach cost-effective solutions with minimal impact to production requirements.; analyse failures to determine root cause and proactively implement maintenance regimes to present reoccurrences;. identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives to improve and maintain the overall fleet performance within the AHS ecosystem.
Additionally, this role will be responsible for setting reliability expectations and validation plans for newly introduced products or technologies to ensure they meet operational standards prior to fleet-wide deployment.
Key Responsibilities
- Daily interaction with product specialists, engineers and workshop personnel for “hands on” input into strategies and improvement ideas
- Review and further interrogate daily, weekly, monthly reports and KPI’s to identify common faults and trends to apply problem solving and root cause analysis, with a continual improvement focus
- Provide reliability support to all sites to ensure that equipment is being maintained in accordance with our maintenance strategies and WOL plans
- Conduct RCA to identify root causes of major or chronic failures preventing or eliminating failures
- Lead the development and tracking of key reliability metrics such as MTBF and MTTR, and drive initiatives to improve them across the AHS ecosystem
- Ensure high-quality failure data collection and reporting to support robust reliability analysis
- Propose improvement ideas based on detailed examination of anticipated or recurring issues of a technical or specialist nature
- Develop and implement reliability verification plans for newly introduced products, ensuring they achieve minimum performance, durability, and availability criteria before full deployment
- Support field validation programs, warranty claim analysis, and new product introduction (NPI) initiatives from a reliability perspective
- Perform hardware lifecycle analysis to evaluate cost, performance degradation, replacement intervals, and end-of-life planning to support asset management and capital forecasting.
Qualifications and Experience
- Experience in a heavy mobile maintenance environment desired
- Experience in mineral processing environment or similar desired
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering/related field or Trade certification in a Mechanical Discipline
- Strong communication with a self-starter attitude
- Knowledge of computerised maintenance management systems (e.g. SAP) desired
- Experience with hardware lifecycle analysis, asset longevity strategies, and data-driven replacement modelling.
- Background in reliability testing, validation programs, or NPI initiatives is highly desirable.
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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