Reliability Senior Engineer

Location: Fortescue's Solomon mine is located on the traditional lands of the Eastern Guruma and Yindjibarndi peoples.

Roster: 4D3X ex Perth (occasional 8D6X Senior Leader or shift coverage required).

Drive optimal fixed plant performance by embedding core asset management principles, leading defect elimination initiatives, and identifying and executing targeted improvement opportunities. This role balances strategic planning with practical execution and fosters cross-functional collaboration to achieve sustainable, high-performance outcomes aligned with operational conditions.

In the context of rapid AI development, this role will be at the forefront of adopting AI tools to predict failures and identify underlying trends and opportunities in plant reliability. Your energy and passion for reliability should inspire others to achieve higher performance.

• Conduct detailed technical analysis of downtime events, work management practices, and operational performance.
  
• Develop business cases for improvement initiatives and cost-reduction opportunities.
  
• Create and maintain advanced dashboards and reporting tools in Power BI, integrating data from sources such as Snowflake.
  
• Act as the Defect Elimination Champion — verify investigation quality, guide reporting practices, and identify systemic improvement opportunities.
  
• Act as a subject matter expert, offering high-level technical guidance to engineering teams, particularly within condition monitoring and lubrication, to drive strategic alignment and ensure the adoption of industry best practices.
  
• Lead or contribute to major reliability projects, including strategy creation, updates, and document development.
  
• Drive the adoption of AI tools to improve effectiveness and automate reliability processes, freeing up engineers from data input, reporting and analysis to more value-add work by using the data to help make key decisions.
  

• Engineering or Technical Qualifications – All disciplines considered but require a minimum of 5 years industry and site experience; hands-on field and practical experience with a technical qualification will be highly regarded.
  
• Root Cause Analysis (Required) — formal training and proven record in delivering high-quality investigations.
  
• Data Analysis (Required) — ability to interrogate large datasets to identify performance gaps, trends and improvement opportunities.
  
• Power BI Development (Required) — capable of building dashboards from scratch and integrating multiple data sources.
  
• VCAT II – Vibration Analysis (Preferred) — qualification and hands-on experience with interpretation and diagnosis.
  
• Oil Analysis (Preferred) — solid working knowledge; formal training desirable.
  
• Improvement Project Delivery (Preferred) — experience in identifying, prioritising, and executing initiatives that deliver measurable results.
  

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise iron ore operations, harness renewable energy, and develop technology that will change our planet forever.

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and encourages team members to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives an inclusive culture within our organisation and the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender diversity, neurodiversity, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
  
• Employment type: Full-time
  
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
  
• Industries: Mining