Senior Track 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.

Senior Track Engineer

Work Location: Port Hedland. Fortescue’s Hedland Operations are located on the traditional lands of the Kariyarra people.

Roster: 4/3 

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Track Engineer to join our Reliability Engineering team (Hedland Operations). As a Senior Track Engineer at FMG, you will be joining a dynamic and collaborative team working on heavy haul railway.

This position requires candidates to meet the following:

• Demonstrated experience in asset management planning and condition monitoring (track geometry, IOC etc).
• Well-developed skills in problem-solving, and time and priority management.
• Proven commitment to safety with a focus on teamwork and quality.
• Strong communications skills, with the ability to lead and mentor the broader engineering community.
• Ability to work in team and influence clients and stakeholder groups.
• Skill in data analysis and programming (desirable).

Key accountabilities will include:

• Support the development and implementation of new and existing standards and existing industry practices.
• Providing specialist engineering solutions across a wide range of asset and life cycle issues and ensure asset integrity.
• Leading small through to large-scale engineering investigations. This will include major maintenance activities, failure investigations (Root Cause Analysis), reliability reviews, rectification and upgrade works.
• Identify, assess and manage operational risks.
• Responding to technical queries from other business operations.
• Manage small to medium sized projects, overlooking project delivery.
• Monitoring Asset Management KPI's, identify gaps in performance and recommend actions to resolve.
• Coaching undergraduate/graduate engineers.

Qualifications and skills required:

• Engineering degree in relevant discipline (preferably Civil or Mechanical).
• Min of 5 years experience in Track Engineering.
• Demonstrated competency in use of SAP, SQL and Microsoft Suite.

Fortescue, we treat our team mates as though they are family. We appreciate everyone’s contribution and know that a diverse workforce creates a safer, more engaged and productive working environment.

Our aim is to have a workforce that reflects the community in which we live, and we encourage females, Aboriginal Australians, those identifying as LGBTIQ+, people of all ages, differing abilities and culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this role.

www.fmgl.com.au/jobs-at-fortescue

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified.