Senior Mining Engineer

Fortescue is now consistently producing 175-180 million tonnes of iron ore per year and has an exciting future ahead as it diversifies from a pure play iron ore producer to a green renewables and resources company.

Iron Bridge is Fortescue’s US$2.6 billion project, set to deliver 22mtpa of high grade 67% Fe magnetite concentrate product. Located 145km by road south of Port Hedland, the mine will deliver an innovative process design and industry-leading energy efficient operation.

Senior Mining Engineer

Work Location: Fortescue’s Iron Bridge project is located on the traditional lands of the Nyamal people.

Roster: 8/6 – Flying Wednesday to Wednesday

We are currently seeking highly motivated Senior Mining Engineer to join the Iron Bridge operations planning team. Reporting to the Short Term Planning Superintendent, this role is responsible for leading scheduling engineers to prepare and communicate the short term production schedules in order to achieve grade and tonnes targets.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead team delivery of safe, practical and efficient schedules and designs, and help to organise environmental and heritage permit requirements to mine operations.
• Deliver Ore feed and stockpiling plans, and coordinate planning, technical and operations stakeholders
• Provide mentoring and development to mining engineers, and work with construction and projects to ensure mutual completion of targets
• Develop mine planning systems, processes and software setup
• Participate or lead incident investigations where mine planning is involved
• Manage Data integration & reporting requirements for conformance to plan and End of Month requirements

Qualifications and skills required:

• Proven experience as a mining engineer, with a Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering or similar, with a practical approach to engineering and design problems, AND appropriate project management skills to allow scheduling of mining and construction activities
• Demonstrated experience in a greenfields operation including design and implementation of systems of work, with a good understanding and demonstrated ability in risk management including investigation and safety through design
• Broad depth of knowledge and experience including mine geology and mineral processing, knowledge in open pit mining preferably in deep pit (hard rock / base metal operations) and ideally experience with Autonomous mining & fleet management systems
• Computer proficiency (Excel, MS Office, Vulcan, Mine planning package - Alastri, Xact/Xpac or similar) with strong analytical & data query skills with attention to detail; Experience with Tableau / Power BI & knowledge of Python or C Sharp programming will be advantageous
• Team orientation and demonstrated ability to take initiative; Experience using collaborative platforms like SharePoint, Trello, Confluence etc. will be advantageous
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical detail to a variety of stakeholder

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.