Reliability Senior Engineer

Our Opportunity

Location: Fortescue’s Solomon mine is located on the traditional lands of the Eastern Guruma and Yindjibarndi peoples.

Roster: 4D3X ex Perth (occasional 8D6X Senior Leader or shut coverage required).

Drive optimal fixed plant performance by embedding core asset management principles, leading defect elimination initiatives, and identifying and executing targeted improvement opportunities.

This role requires balancing strategic planning with practical execution, fostering cross-functional collaboration to achieve sustainable, high-performance outcomes aligned with operational conditions.

In the rapid development and growth in AI, this role needs to be at the forefront of how AI tools can be adopted and used to predict failures and identify underlying trends and opportunities in plant reliability. Your energy and passion for reliability will be infectious and inspire others to achieve the next levels of performance required by the fixed plant.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed technical analysis of downtime events, work management practices, and operational performance.
• Develop business cases for improvement initiatives and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Create and maintain advanced dashboards and reporting tools in Power BI, integrating data from sources such as Snowflake.
• Act as the Defect Elimination Champion — verify investigation quality, guide reporting practices, and identify systemic improvement opportunities.
• Act as a subject matter expert, offering high-level technical guidance to engineering teams, particularly within condition monitoring and lubrication, to drive strategic alignment and ensure the adoption of industry best practices.
• Lead or contribute to major reliability projects, including strategy creation, updates, and document development.
• Drive the adoption of AI tools to improve effectiveness and automate reliability processes, freeing up engineers from data input, reporting and analysis to more value adding work by using the data to help make key decisions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Engineering or Technical Qualifications – All disciplines considered but need to have minimum 5 years industry and site experience, hands-on field and practical experience coupled with a technical qualification will be highly regarded.
• Root Cause Analysis (Required) — formal training and proven track record in delivering high-quality investigations.
• Data Analysis (Required) — ability to interrogate large datasets to identify performance gaps, trends and improvement opportunities.
• Power BI Development (Required) — capable of building dashboards from scratch and integrating multiple data sources.
• VCAT II – Vibration Analysis (Preferred) — qualification and hands-on experience with interpretation and diagnosis.
• Oil Analysis (Preferred) — solid working knowledge; formal training desirable.
• Improvement Project Delivery (Preferred) — experience in identifying, prioritising, and executing initiatives that deliver measurable results.

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.