Mine Planning Engineer - Infrastructure Planning

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: Perth Office – Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people

Roster:  Monday to Friday

As a Mine Planning Engineer, you will be the primary interface between the Decarb Infrastructure team and the 2-Year and operations planning teams.

You will translate near-term mine plan changes into electrical infrastructure and energisation requirements, maintain the integrated pit register and ensure infrastructure schedules remain aligned with the quarterly mine plan cycle. This role will also support infrastructure planning, change management and trade-off analysis to enable safe and effective planning outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary interface with the 2-Year and operations planning teams and attend planning meetings
• Translate approved 2-Year mine plans into near-term electrical infrastructure and energisation requirements and identify variations from previously approved plans
• Model HME charging demand, including charger type, quantity and location across pits over the 2-year horizon
• Maintain the integrated pit register, including current and planned cabled machine numbers, chargers and related infrastructure requirements
• Integrate electrical infrastructure constraints into the 2-Year mine sequence and identify conflicts and required changes
• Resolve scheduling conflicts between fleet deployment, energisation dates and mine plan timing
• Identify short-term fleet deployment changes that may impact energisation schedules and raise these with the team
• Quantify infrastructure cost and schedule impacts arising from quarterly 2-Year plan changes and support trade-off analysis
• Validate that Decarb Infrastructure planning reflects the latest approved 2-Year plan and publish relevant datasets to Anvil and Snowflake each quarter
• Support change management and the standardisation of electrical infrastructure designs.

Qualifications and Experience

• Mine planning background with experience in 2-year or short- to medium-term planning
• Mine design or consultancy experience is advantageous
• Experience with planning tools such as Alastri, Deswik, Vulcan or similar
• Familiarity with site-level operations, fleet deployment and mine sequencing
• Understanding of electrical infrastructure and energisation planning concepts
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving capability
• Good understanding of the interaction between mine planning, geology, geotechnical, drill and blast and operational functions
• Practical, solutions-focused approach to engineering and planning challenges
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across operational and technical teams
• Proactive approach, strong initiative and attention to detail, with the ability to communicate technical information, risks and opportunities to a range of stakeholders.

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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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.