Senior Process Engineer

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.

Senior Process Engineer

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

Roster: Monday to Friday

We are currently seeking highly motivated Senior Process Engineer to join our Strategic Planning Team. This role will be responsible for a range of projects across pre-feasibility Studies, Optimisation and improvements across our existing sites and scoping studies.

To be successful in this role candidates must have strong interpersonal skills with good understanding of both operational and planning functions within the mining industry, including the technical and support functions that support these areas. The candidate will possess strong technical skills and being able to articulate potential risks and opportunities within the planned works to the relevant stakeholders.

 Key accountabilities will include:

• Deliver solutions to existing operational challenges regarding safety, process, yield or upgrade
• Work closely with Strategic Planning to deliver modelling outcomes
• Develop and manage testwork programs to progress project evaluation, oversee technical quality, integrity and adequacy of designs
• Work closely with mine planning and geology teams to improve ore body knowledge and regression predictions
• Develop projects with operations; supporting through design, execution, commissioning and handover
• Generate and/or approve process related deliverables and documentation for project evaluation and delivery
• Assist in building and maintaining processes, tools and systems to analyse options and the impacts to the existing, and potential future, infrastructure and operations to inform business case inputs
• Business case development for studies including sensitivity and risk analysis for the key drivers
• Liaise with technical support functions to understand risk and opportunities to the proposed operations and to enable timely achievement of study milestones
• The role will also interact with internal operational and functional stakeholders and will be expected to effectively manage integration and coordination with operating activities

Qualifications and skills required:

• Demonstrated commitment to safety
• Tertiary Qualifications in Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or similar discipline
• Minimum 10 years in mineral processing industry with direct operational/ technical development experience with producer, ideally over 5 years process engineering experience on major mineral processing projects working on materials handling, crushing, screening and wet beneficiation process plant (especially physical separation unit processes)
• Demonstrated experience in most major components of mining project studies and development
• Strong conceptual thinking and analytical focus with practical alignment to reality
• Excellent problem-solving skills and continual improvement focus

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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