Leading Hand Fixed Plant Mechanical Fitter

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Cloudbreak – Fortescue’s Cloudbreak mine is located on the traditional lands of the Palyku and Nyiyaparli peoples.

Roster: 7D/7N/14R – FIFO ex Perth, Busselton, Broome, Karratha, Port Hedland, Fitzroy Crossing and Kununurra.

Cloudbreak is seeking a Leading Hand Fixed Plant Mechanical Fitter to provide frontline leadership and technical expertise across the Ore Processing Facility (OPF). Reporting to the Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor, this role is responsible for coordinating safe and efficient execution of maintenance activities, supporting team development, and ensuring plant reliability targets are achieved across crushing, conveying, screening and processing infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate daily fixed plant maintenance activities.
• Provide visible safety leadership and field supervision.
• Execute planned and breakdown maintenance on OPF assets.
• Mentor and develop Fixed Plant Fitters and apprentices.
• Ensure work is completed to schedule and quality standards.
• Drive equipment reliability and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support shutdown planning and execution activities.
• Maintain compliance with Fortescue procedures and statutory requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• Australian recognised Mechanical Fitter trade qualification.
• Demonstrated experience in fixed plant maintenance leadership roles.
• Strong knowledge of crushers, conveyors, screens and processing equipment.
• Proven ability to lead teams in a high-production mining environment.
• Experience with SAP, maintenance planning and work management systems.
• Strong fault-finding and root cause analysis capability.
• Schedule 26 Statutory Supervisor appointment or ability to obtain.
• Excellent communication, safety leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.

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.