Senior Water Management Engineer

2 weeks ago

Perth, Western Australia Fortescue Full time

About Us

Fortescue is leading the way with its vision to decarbonise its iron ore operations, harnessing renewable energy and developing technology that will transform the planet forever.

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Cloudbreak mine site (Chichester Hub)

  • Fortescue's Cloudbreak mine is located on the traditional lands of the Palyku and Nyiyaparli peoples.

Roster: 8D/6R FIFO ex. Perth

This role will cover the Cloudbreak and Christmas Creek mine sites in the department of Water Management as part of the Chichester Hub Operations.

The Senior Water Management Engineer will provide engineering and technical support to the Chichester Water Management operations and maintenance team, enabling the department to meet its safety, cost, and performance objectives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and nurture a diverse team covering production, reliability, control systems, and dewatering hydrogeology.
  • Establish and maintain standard measuring, monitoring, and reporting of assets performance, providing strategies and tactics to continuously improve reliability.
  • Actively identify and lead improvements to all dewatering-related standards, specifications, procedures, systems, and processes.
  • Continuously liaise with Projects on the safe and successful design, implementation, and commissioning of delivered water projects to standards and procedures.
  • Provide technical direction to the operations and maintenance teams to ensure continuous improvement and optimisation of the dewatering and water supply networks.
  • Generate improvement projects and drive the team to deliver these projects based on their benefit to the department and key stakeholders.
  • Assist in the development of operational budgets and business cases for capital investment projects.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Tertiary qualification in Engineering (Mechanical, Civil, or Environmental) or Geosciences.
  • Water management experience in the mining industry, with a focus on large-scale open-pit dewatering, water supply, reinjection, sumping, and tailings operations.
  • Working knowledge of Industry and Australian Standards, Mine Safety & Inspection, and OHS Act/Regs.
  • Demonstrated ability to engage, connect, and influence key stakeholders at all organisational levels.
  • Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Advanced skills in MS Office, particularly Excel.
  • Experience using GIS and CAD software such as ArcGIS and AutoCAD.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and encourages team members 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.

Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ 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.

https://fortescue.com/careers

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.

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