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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 Opportunity

Work Location: Fortescue’s Perth CBD office with regular site visits to the Pilbara.
Roster: Monday to Friday (flexible hours, with childcare creche available)
The Fortescue team are genuinely committed to provide a caring and inclusive workplace for our employees to grow and flourish towards their full potential. With Family at the heart of our values, we offer family friendly, flexible work arrangements that allow for a happy work/life balance.
Joining Fortescue as Asset Maintenance Specialist- Fixed Plant for our Asset & Materials Management department and reporting to the Superintendent Fixed Plant Reliability, you will play a key role in ensures that Fortescue’s fixed plant assets are managed to the optimal cost, performance, and risk outcomes over their lifecycle, throughout the whole of the iron ore business.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and deliver sustainable engineering solutions to optimise whole of life cost and asset performance.
• Provide technical support the business primarily in resolution of challenging faults and issues. Also, with tender requests, evaluation and contract management.
• Grow and maintain positive relationships with site teams through regular site visits and interactions.
• Assisting the site operational teams in the recovery and investigation of major downtime events.
• Provide guidance and governance on best practice processes and systems to manage the Fortescue fixed plant assets in your assigned category.
• Explore process, equipment, and engineering opportunities to reduce risk exposures.
• Develop whole of life asset management plans and look at asset capital replacement plans.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Proven expertise with large scale mining assets surrounding reliability improvement, cost optimisation, and project management.
• Sound equipment understanding of material handling ore bins and chutes, wear liners and wear management, and train load out stations.
• Well-developed interpersonal, facilitation, and presentation skills with the ability to engage and influence at all levels.
• Knowledge of the CMMS and SAP systems is preferred.

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.

https://fortescue.com/careers

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.