Reliabity Engineer | Brisbane or Perth
BHP
About BHP
At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
Come and be a part of this success.
About the Role
We support centralised, remote monitoring teams that use data and asset-health knowledge to detect equipment failures early and act before they cause downtime. We are looking for a Reliability Engineer with a strong reliability and data analysis background focused primarily on mobile equipment to turn alarm, condition and downtime data into proactive, high-confidence alerts on a modern predictive maintenance platform.
You will identify the failure modes that drive the greatest production loss across the mobile fleet and translate your equipment reliability expertise into proactive monitoring requirements, alert logic and response workflows. Working alongside data and platform specialists who develop and deploy the models, you will define, validate and continuously improve the conditions required to detect defects earlier and prevent unplanned downtime.
What you'll do
- Analyse mobile fleet data - alarms, condition monitoring and downtime history to identify the failure modes driving the greatest production loss across haul trucks and ancillary equipment.
- Design proactive, trend-based alerts that combine multiple signals to detect degradation earlier and with higher confidence than single-threshold alarms and define the action each alert should trigger.
- Close the loop - use stakeholder feedback to refine models and alarm quality, and report reliability performance (MTBF, MTTR, downtime, noise-vs-actionable alert ratio) to drive continuous improvement.
- Engage - engage with stakeholders to help establish the standards, processes and value framework needed to improve and scale the capability across sites and asset classes.
About You
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Reliability experience on surface mobile equipment in a mining or heavy industrial environment.
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Engineering degree (mechanical or electrical) or trade-qualified with demonstrated reliability / maintenance experience.
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Strong data analysis skills - able to work with large alarm, condition and downtime datasets to identify patterns, trends and failure modes and translate them into actionable defect monitoring.
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Applied reliability methods - RCM, FMEA/FMECA, RCA and condition monitoring (vibration, thermography, oil analysis).
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A collaborative, structured problem-solving mindset with a passion for tackling complex maintenance challenges using data-driven insights.
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Strong communication and stakeholder skills, with the comfort to operate in ambiguity and engage with a wide variety of stakeholders.
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Working knowledge of 1SAP and Work Management in a maintenance environment.
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Highly regardedExposure to predictive maintenance and operational data platforms (e.g. APM, Snowflake, Power BI, OEM/SCADA alarm systems)
About Our Process
At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.
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Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.
At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
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