Senior Business Improvement Professionals

Fortescue has an exciting future ahead. As well as producing over 180 million tonnes of iron ore per year, we’re diversifying our business to become an integrated global green energy and resources company.

Business Improvement Professionals

Work Location: Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people.

Roster: Monday to Friday

Reporting to Manager Business Planning and Improvement, we have opportunities for experienced professionals responsible for driving business improvement across Fortescue’s operations, delivering ambitious cost savings and volume targets.  This includes supporting, coaching, building excitement, removing roadblocks and driving discipline for improvement efforts across sites and Perth support teams, and leading business improvement processes and routines for the operational lead team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Driving delivery of ambitious improvement targets across all areas of operations
• Supporting local improvement leads to establish an improvement management system
• Supporting the development of business plans, integrating inputs from across teams
• Driving excitement and energy around improvement efforts, including recognition
• Removing roadblocks for teams to rapidly deliver initiatives
• Coaching teams on how to use different improvement methodologies
• Establishing routines and metrics and to drive improvement discipline and delivery
• Working with operational hubs and functions to ensure alignment to broader organisational goals
• Assisting in the identification of opportunities to reduce expenditure, increase production, improve safety and culture
• Engaging stakeholders and facilitating workshops to help ensure the consideration of differing opinions and options
• Generation of Business Cases, Project Charters & Plans, potentially including Data Analytics & Root Cause Analysis
• Effectively present findings and updates to Management in a clear and concise manner

Qualifications and Experience:

• Postgraduate education in a business or mining related discipline 
• Strong communication / interpersonal / facilitation skills
• Ability to work cohesively with and influence others
• Improvement, Project Management & Change Management experience is desired
• 5+ years of operational experience in a similar role within the Mining or Manufacturing industry
• Experience working within both Operations and/or Maintenance

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

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