Reliability Engineer

At Newmont, people create the value in the metals we mine and are ambassadors in the communities where they live and work. As a team, we foster an environment in support of our people vision, where everyone belongs, thrives and is valued. We have built a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people can bring their differences to support delivering results together. 

Boddington provides you with the opportunity to live locally and go home every day or stay in our Village for your roster and DIDO.  We are only 130kms from the Perth CBD and approximately 100kms from the coast.  You will work 9 hours per day and have every second Friday off as your RDO - a great work/life balance.

• Do you have a Degree in Mechanical Engineering and experience as a Reliability Engineer in the mining industry?
• Do you understand heavy mobile equipment i.e. Shovels, Autonomous 793F Haul Trucks, Loaders, Drills, and other ancillary mining equipment?
• Are you able to interrogate equipment downtime & SAP Databases to identify Improvement Opportunities?
• Are you experienced in investigating equipment failures to determine root causes and corrective actions?

Purpose

As part of our Asset Management Mobile Maintenance Team, you will help to develop and foster a culture that strives to continuously improve safety, reliability and cost performance.  

Through coaching and mentoring operators, maintainers, Asset Management professionals and practitioners on reliability and maintainability programs and actively sharing knowledge, you will help drive continuous improvement activities throughout the entire life cycle of plant assets.

As an experienced Reliability Engineer your role will be to identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations.  This broad primary role can be divided into three smaller areas of responsibility:

•    Defect Elimination

•    Asset Maintenance Strategy

•    Life cycle asset management (LCAM)

Key Duties

• Monitor and analyse the reliability performance of HME fleet.
• Identify issues/defects and improvement opportunities by analysing equipment performance, process delays, costs, asset management KPI's, and maintenance history (SAP).
• Support the use of reliability software systems (e.g. SAP, AMT or similar CMMS tools).
• Actively participate and contribute to safety improvements and environmental awareness.
• Prepare and present reliability reports, KPIs and improvement plans.
• Develop and manage equipment maintenance strategies using RCM methodology for new equipment and PM optimisation for existing strategies on equipment that is not meeting availability or reliability requirements.
• Compile and distribute key asset performance indicators (availability, utilisation, MTBF, MTBS, MTTR).
• Facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) sessions using RCA guidelines to identify failure causes, containment and countermeasures as necessary
• Develop life cycle cost models for critical assets. Monitor and quantify equipment life cycle costs and utilise for investigating / adopting alternative strategies support capital replacement plan.

About you

Your demonstrated knowledge and experience will include:

• Previous mining or heavy industry experience.
• Sound understanding of heavy mobile equipment systems with previous maintenance reliability experience.
• Strong background in using maintenance reliability methods i.e. defect elimination, criticality analysis, asset strategy development, operate for reliability, condition monitoring, etc.
• Root cause analysis, problem solving and other analytical techniques
• Project management.
• Effective planning and time management.
• Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) facilitation and understanding of maintenance strategies using RCM principles.
• Ability to lead and drive cultural change in a positive manner and influencing others on new concepts.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise work accurately and to work with cross-functional teams effectively.

We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you

Applications Close Sunday October 26, 2025.

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