Mechanical Reliability Engineer

Challenge yourself

It is an exciting time to be a part of Newcrest’s journey to building Australia’s largest and most technically advanced block cave. We are building our mining development expertise for our panel caving expansion works for phase three to extend our vision of a 50-year mine life for Cadia.

Operations near and far

Our Cadia site is located in Central West New South Wales, approximately 25 kms outside the vibrant regional town of Orange. Employees reside in the varied accommodation options in Orange, with the surrounding winery and national park areas to enjoy. Have access to the area’s wide range of amenities, including a prominent health sector, excellent educational facilities, shopping, recreation activities, transport and other services such as childcare.

Who we are looking for

As a passionate and technically astute Mechanical Reliability Engineer, you will support maintenance and reliability services to our mechanical fixed plant and infrastructure assets at our Cadia Mine. Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer, this rewarding opportunity will play a key role in ensuring availability, utilisation and effectiveness of plant equipment on the surface and underground. It will also see you utilise your expertise towards managing the installation and commissioning of small capital works and plant modifications as required.

Your fixed plant & mining infrastructure maintenance experience will empower you to deliver highly effective reliability centred maintenance strategies, based on condition monitoring programs and develop asset management plans for mechanical assets

You have the ability to quickly identify and mitigate potential hazards and lead mechanical fault finding and failure analysis procedures, including  Root Cause Analysis

You will also assist in breakdown investigations and be accountable to improve asset reliability and availability.

Additional key responsibilities of the role include:  

• Ensuring continuous improvement of mechanical plant and infrastructure systems through analysis of performance data, downtime records, and incidents
• Condition monitoring of critical mechanical equipment
• Investigate equipment failures through a structured RCA process and identify and implement solutions
• Ensuring adherence with Australian standards and relevant site specifications

To succeed in this role, you will be detail oriented, enjoy continuous improvement and have the drive to deliver consistent results. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and the innate ability to communicate effectively upwards and to operational levels, along with the following:

• Tertiary Qualification in Mechanical Engineering
• Demonstrable understanding of reliability engineering and asset life planning strategies
• Execution experience in fixed plant equipment maintenance
• In-depth knowledge and experience with asset integrity management systems
• Exposure and knowledge of the NSW WHS (M&PS) Legislation and Australian Standards

Please note: The current roster for this role is 5 days on/2 days off; with an on-call component approximately one weekend per month - thus we do require candidate to be locally based in Orange, NSW or surrounding areas.

Our commitment to you

Keeping our people safe and healthy is our most important asset. Our commitment to safety, health and well-being is supported by systems and standards that embed our safety culture.

Newcrest is also committed to building a diverse workforce. Our strategic focus is on gender diversity and diversity to reflect the communities in which we operate. Creating an inclusive culture will enable us to leverage the richness of cultures across our workforce and the capability of our diverse employees to get better business outcomes.

If you are seeking a new career challenge, where you can transfer your existing skills, into a positive and empowering team environment, we would love to hear from you!

At this stage, we are not accepting any external agency CVs for these opportunities.

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