Lead Engineer

2 weeks ago

Perth, Western Australia Fortescue Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Country/Region: AU

State: WA

City: Perth

Job ID: 12077

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Christmas Creek - located on the traditional lands of the Nyiyaparli people.

Roster: 8D/6R – FIFO ex Perth

Fortescue is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer – Mechanical to join our Christmas Creek Engineering & Reliability team. You will lead a team of engineers, providing senior technical advice and ensuring adherence to asset management principles. This is a leadership role for someone passionate about driving reliability, continuous improvement and team development in a safety-focused environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of different levelled Reliability Engineers.
  • Oversee personnel management, training, succession planning and recruitment.
  • Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
  • Provide technical support and guidance to maintenance, shutdown, and project teams.
  • Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance strategies and task lists.
  • Follow the Reliability Roadmap, including FMEA, bad actor analysis and spare parts management (BOM).
  • Monitor and improve departmental KPIs including reliability, decarbonisation and operational excellence metrics.
  • Act as Control Owner for Critical Risks Management, ensuring effective mitigation measures.
  • Ensure compliance with internal standards, external regulations and best practice reliability principles.
Qualifications and Experience
  • Extensive experience in reliability engineering and technical team leadership.
  • Strong knowledge of asset management principles, reliability metrics, and relevant legislation (Mine Safety, OHS, etc.).
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • Proficient in MS Office, MS Project and SAP.
  • Excellent analytical, communication and collaborative skills.
About Us

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

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members 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. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, 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.

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.

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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