Manager, Operations Planning

Fortescue has an exciting future ahead. As well as producing over 180 million tonnes of iron ore per year, we’re diversifying our business to become an integrated global green energy and resources company.

Manager, Operations Planning

Work Location: Christmas Creek - Fortescue’s Christmas Creek mine is located on the traditional lands of the Nyiyaparli people.

Roster: 4D/3R FIFO ex Perth (with rotational 8D/6R weekend coverage)

Responsible for providing effective leadership and management of the mine planning, geology, geotechnical and survey processes for Fortescue's Christmas Creek operation. This role is critical in supporting Christmas Creek to safely achieve its production, quality and cost targets that align with overall business requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring strategies to achieve Fortescue’s objectives are successfully implemented 
• Providing robust technical solutions that deliver efficiency improvements and cost reduction goals and critical risk treatment in the short and medium term mine plans 
• Establishing effective working relationships with key stakeholders at Christmas Creek and across Fortescue
• Drive improvement and standardisation of processes, systems, and data in partnership with key stakeholders
• Manage the Mine Analytics Lab to ensure safe and effective operations 
• Leading and developing strong and capable teams in engineering, mine planning, geology, geotechnical and survey disciplines to deliver an effective technical service to the Christmas Creek operations

Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Mine Engineering (or equivalent)
• Ideally, 10+ years' experience in the mining industry, with a majority in Iron Ore Operations 
• Deep understanding and sound knowledge of orebody economics and its linkage to costs
• Capability to run mine scheduling software to produce monthly and quarterly plans, and provide mentorship and guidance to a strong technical team
• Exceptional Project Management experience and demonstrated strong leadership capabilities

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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