Superintendent Product Assurance

Country/Region: AU

State: WA

City: Perth

Job ID: 12595

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Work Location: Perth – Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people

Roster: Monday to Friday

The Product Assurance superintendent is a senior leadership role accountable for the planning, execution, and governance of all integration, verification, and validation activities across the Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) product line. This role ensures that complex, safety-critical, distributed mining systems meet functional, performance, safety, and regulatory requirements in alignment with ISO 61508 and OEM partner standards.

The superintendent leads cross-functional verification, integration, and validation teams—encompassing verification coordinators, test leads, test engineers, integration engineers, and field I,V&V staff. Acting as the program's authority on verification and system readiness, the superintendent drives a structured, evidence-based approach to product assurance and deployment.

• Own and drive the overall Integration, Verification & Validation (I,V&V) strategy across all product lines, ensuring alignment with system engineering lifecycle and program milestones
• Establish and enforce standards, processes, and tools for requirements traceability, test coverage, defect management, and compliance with ISO 61508
• Serve as the authority for verification, validation, and integration readiness in program and safety reviews
• Oversee integration planning and execution across SIL, HIL, and field testing environments
• Ensure integration validates critical controls, mine model management, assignment logic, health monitoring, and safety functions per ADA Functional Requirements
• Lead system-level validation campaigns to demonstrate compliance with safety, performance, operational, and usability requirements
• Build, lead, and mentor a multi-disciplinary V&V team while balancing resources across feature verification, system integration, and customer site validation
• Drive defect management and risk-based testing, focusing on high-safety and high-availability functions (e.g., collision avoidance, GNSS integrity, site-wide stop)
• Collaborate with Product Management, System Engineering, and Architecture to embed testability in requirements and design
• Act as the single accountable leader for V&V readiness, engaging stakeholders and ensuring validated releases transition smoothly into production operations.

• 10+ years in systems engineering, verification, or validation roles, with at least 5 years in a leadership capacity
• Proven experience in complex, safety-critical, distributed systems (autonomous vehicles, mining, defence, or aerospace preferred)
• Strong knowledge of ISO 61508 and functional safety practices
• Demonstrated success leading integration, SIL, HIL, and field verification campaigns
• Expertise in requirements management, test strategy, and defect triage
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills
• Experience in DevOps-driven test automation and continuous integration/deployment is highly desirable.

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds 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 across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ 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.