Reliability Engineer

Newmont has recently acquired Newcrest Mining creating the world’s leading gold mining company. 

With operations around the world, our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities where we operate. We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, valued, and supported to bring their whole unique self to work. We bring out the best in each other, inspiring performance and a shared belief that what we do matters. 

Our Cadia operation in MAINTENANCE is now recruiting for the position of RELIABILITY ENGINEER.

Operations near and far

Cadia Valley Operations is located in Central Western New South Wales, approximately 25 kms outside the vibrant regional township of Orange and a convenient three hours from the capital city of Sydney. Employees reside in varied accommodation options in and around the district of Orange with the surrounding area’s occupied by wineries, stone fruit orchards, farming and national parks.

Employees have access to the area’s wide range of amenities, including a prominent health sector with a modern well-equipped regional hospital, excellent educational facilities, shopping, large selection of sport and recreation options, transport and other services such as childcare.

Who we’re looking for  

Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer for Asset Integrity, the Engineer will support maintenance and reliability services to our mechanical fixed plant and infrastructure assets at our Cadia Mine by focusing on long term asset integrity. You will play a key role in supporting the maintenance team to deliver long term asset health through strategy implementation, insight investigation, assurance activities and delivery of improvement projects for both surface and underground ore processing equipment.

The role will utilise your investigative and critical thinking skills, allowing you to undertake insight studies to identify asset integrity improvements and to scope, plan and deliver these through capital improvements with the support of the maintenance execution supervisors. You will have good project management skills and utilise your experience of successfully working within maintenance teams to get shared results for both the mechanical and structural asset types.

Your fixed plant and 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 will utilise your knowledge and experience of static and structural assets to provide engineering assurance to our maintenance team in areas including load capacities and ratings, crane statutory requirements, tank integrity, fixed platforms stairs and ladder design and corrosion control.

You will have a passion for safety and demonstrate that through identifying and implementing safety improvements, talking to workers in the field to review safety controls, and through your personal choices as you work within the Cadia team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Review and set maintenance strategies for fixed plant equipment. This will include facilitating FMECA workshops for critical assets and identifying and outlining appropriate maintenance plans for long term asset integrity.
• Asset integrity insight studies to provide the organisation with detailed and accurate asset health understanding.
• Identify and communicate asset integrity improvement initiatives.
• Lead the site wide structural audit and improvement works. Maintain scoping documents, oversight of 2 yearly audit, scope and project manage required improvement works.
• Capital improvement project management including scope definition, project planning, funding requests, management of change, cost control, contractor oversight, project engineering oversight, safe execution and commission of change.
• Provide engineering assurance advice for mechanical and structural assets with reference to relevant Australian Standards, industry standards, site standards, and equipment manuals.
• Participation in incident investigations to provide engineering judgement and assessments as required.
• Safety leadership including safety interactions to help support the effectiveness of critical controls in the field.
• Communicate effectively to provide technical advice and support for site mechanical plant and manage internal stakeholder & customer relationships.
• Ensure effective management of contractors and consultants.
• Build own capability for work in current and future roles.

To succeed in this role, you will be a self-starter, 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 or Structural Engineering
• Mining or heavy industry – Preferred
• Project management skills and experience. 
• 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: This is a 5/2 (9 hours per day) or 9 days per fortnight (10 hours per day) residential role in Orange, NSW.

Our Commitment to You 

Newmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Underpinned by our values of Safety, Sustainability, Integrity, Responsibility and Inclusion, our commitment is to respect the rights of every individual to work to their highest potential, free of discrimination, as well as the cultures, religions, and governing codes applicable to each country in which we operate.  

If you share our values and feel that you could make a meaningful difference in this role, submit your application through our website before the advertised closing date. 

At this stage, we are not accepting any external agency CVs for the opportunity. 

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