Track Senior Engineer

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Hedland Operations.  Fortescue’s Hedland Operations are located on the traditional lands of the Kariyarra people.

Roster: 8/6 - residential or FIFO opportunity available

Fortescue has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Track Engineer to join our team, working 8 days on and 6 days off. This position offers a perfect work-life balance while allowing you to leverage your expertise in asset management and track engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of new and existing standards and existing industry practices.
• Prepare rerailing plan and generate track asset health reports
• Perform analysis on track geometry & IOC readings.
• Coordination track geometry system service or repair
• Providing specialist engineering solutions across a wide range of asset and life cycle issues and ensure asset integrity.
• Leading small through to large-scale engineering investigations. This will include major maintenance activities, failure investigations (Root Cause Analysis), reliability reviews, rectification and upgrade works.
• Identify, assess and manage operational risks.
• Responding to technical queries from other business operations.
• Manage small to medium sized projects, overlooking project delivery.
• Monitoring Asset Management KPI's, identify gaps in performance and recommend actions to resolve.
• Coaching undergraduate/graduate engineers.

Qualifications and Experience

• Engineering degree in relevant discipline (preferably Civil or Mechanical).
• Min of 5 years experience in Track Engineering.
• Demonstrated competency in use of SAP, SQL and Microsoft Suite.
• Demonstrated experience in asset management planning and condition monitoring (track geometry, IOC etc).
• Well-developed skills in problem-solving, and time and priority management.
• Proven commitment to safety with a focus on teamwork and quality.
• Strong communications skills, with the ability to lead and mentor the broader engineering community.

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.