Superintendent Engineer Quality & Reliability

About Us
Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.
Our Opportunity
Work Location - Eliwana Mine
Roster - 4 days /3 off - FIFO ex Perth
Reporting to - Operations and Maintenance Manager
This key leadership role will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, safety, and optimal performance of the fixed plant operations.
Key Responsibilities
Risk Reduction and Safety Leadership:

• Drive the exposure risk reduction program and the potential loss of life program.
• Instill a strong safety culture within the team and actively promote safe work initiatives.

Engineering and Reliability Systems:

• Establish and optimize key engineering and reliability systems and processes to foster continuous improvement in plant reliability.
• Lead the development and implementation of strategies for safe and cost-effective plant reliability.

Maintenance Excellence:

• Support maintenance execution and the maintenance work management process.
• Ensure maintenance activities align with strategies, playing a critical role in the annual planning and budgeting process.

Asset Reliability Management:

• Identify and manage asset reliability risks through effective lifecycle management.
• Conduct FMECA/RCA for failures, provide improvement actions, and monitor their implementation through robust reliability processes.

Condition Monitoring and Inspections:

• Oversee Condition Monitoring processes, including ultrasonic and phased array UT pipeline inspections, vibration analysis, infrared inspections, fracture/failure analysis, etc., to accurately assess equipment condition.

Project Management:

• Identify sustaining capital improvement projects and manage them efficiently, utilizing internal resources or collaborating with the operational projects team in Perth.

Performance Reporting and Data Systems:

• Ensure accurate reporting of plant performance through various media, engaging all key stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain effective data and reporting systems for tracking plant performance, identifying issues, and analysing trends.

Qualifications and Experience

• Tertiary degree in Engineering
• Proven leadership in motivating multidiscipline engineering, reliability, and operational teams within the mining industry.
• Preferably possess a post-graduate qualification in Reliability or Project Management.
• Strong safety leadership skills and a track record of promoting safe work initiatives.
• Demonstrated budget management experience.
• Collaborative leadership style with excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Change management leadership experience.
• Creative thinking and problem-solving capability.
• Effective planning and stakeholder management skills.

Our Commitment
Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds 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 across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ 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.