Reliability Engineer - Excavators & Drills

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.

Reliability Engineer - HME

Work Location: Chichester Hub - Fortescue’s Chichester hub is located on the traditional lands of the Palyku and Nyiyaparli peoples.

Roster: 8D/6R – FIFO ex Perth

Currently seeking a Reliability Engineer to provide direct technical and maintenance engineering support for site-based maintenance activities. Assist maintenance department to make well-informed maintenance decisions to reach cost-effective solutions with minimal impact to production requirements. Analyse failures to determine root cause and proactively implement maintenance regimes to prevent reoccurrences.

Key responsibilities include:

• Daily interaction with supervisors and workshop personnel for “hands on” input into strategies and improvement ideas.
• Review and further interrogate daily, weekly, monthly reports and KPI’s to identify common faults and trends to apply problem solving and root cause analysis, with a continual improvement focus.
• Provide reliability support to all sites to ensure that equipment is being maintained in accordance with our maintenance strategies and WOL plans.
• Actively participate in the planning process to ensure that assumptions & targets are technically feasible (as applicable).
• Propose improvement ideas based on detailed examination of anticipated or recurring issues of a technical or specialist nature
• Identify and recommend critical spares that are required to ensure optimal performance of HME assets and their forecast maintenance plans

Qualifications and Experience: 

• Experience in a heavy mobile maintenance environment desired 
• Experience in mineral processing environment or similar
• Knowledge of excavators and drillings (CAT, Liebherr, Epiroc)
• Strong communication with a self-starter attitude
• Caterpillar mining equipment and autonomous systems is desirable 
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Trade certification in a Mechanical Discipline

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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