Superintendent Engineering

About Us

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Our Opportunity

Work Location - Cloudbreak Mine

• Fortescue’s Cloudbreak mine is located on the traditional lands of the Palyku peoples.

Roster: 4D3R ex Perth, Karratha and Broome

The primary role of the Reliability and Engineering Superintendent is to provide leadership to a team of Reliability and Maintenance Engineers across Fixed Plant and Non-Process Infrastructure Operations. Disciplines include Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Process Control.

Fundamental accountabilities from the role are to establish and sustain key Reliability and Engineering Systems and Processes that support continuous improvement in safe and cost-effective plant reliability and supporting Maintenance Execution and the Maintenance Work Management Process. Provide leadership, direction and support for the Reliability and Maintenance Engineering team and establish an interdependent diverse culture.

The role will also be required to identify and manage asset reliability risks centre around equipment life cycle and maintenance with the strategies and tactics forming a critical part of the maintenance annual planning and budgeting process.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishing standardised measuring, monitoring and reporting of plant performance and provide strategies and tactics to continuously improve plant reliability. The plant performance is reported on Daily/Weekly/Monthly through a number of different media engaging all key stakeholders. 
• Facilitate/Conduct FMECA/RCA (Root Cause Analysis) into failures and provide improvement actions and monitor implementation of those actions.
• Conditioning Monitoring: Responsible for ensuring that Condition Monitoring processes, including ultrasonic (as well as phased array UT) pipeline inspections, vibration analysis of rotating gear, infrared inspections, fracture/failure analysis, lubricants analysis and others are applied to accurately determine equipment condition.
• Leading a team of Improvement Specialists, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers and Process Control Engineers
• Monitor, analyse and continuously improve equipment reliability performance of the Fixed Plants and NPI
• Deliver a maintenance budget based on data analysis
• Generate improvement projects and drive the team to deliver these projects based on the benefit they will provide to the plants
• Utilise Reliability processes and data to prioritise the teams work and input into the project development process
• Optimise plant performance by engaging with all departments to drive equipment efficiency gains
• Ensure the delivery of effective equipment maintenance tactics and associated documentation to align with Asset management Plans
• Monitor and control equipment reliability performance metrics
• Responsible for ensuring statutory and legislative compliance of relevant equipment within the operation
• Ensure Implementation of FMG Asset Management framework

Qualifications and Experience

• Extensive Maintenance and Reliability experience within Mining Fixed Plant, Oil and Gas and/or Heavy Industry
• Tertiary qualifications in a technical discipline, ideally Mechanical Engineering
• Extensive Trade background Fixed Plant experience
• Post graduate qualification in Reliability or Project Management
• Experience leading and facilitating diverse teams
• Experience in implementation of reliability engineering processes and tools
• Demonstrated ability to select, develop, coach and mentor employees to improve engagement, diversity and organisational capability
• Demonstrated ability to engage, connect and influence key stakeholders at all organisational levels

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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Advert closes: 25 October 2024

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.