Asset Maintenance Specialist - Dewatering and Water Management

Our Opportunity

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

Roster: Monday to Friday

*Work from home up to 2 days per week.

As a key member of Fortescue’s Asset Management fixed plant team, you will ensure that Fortescue’s Mine Dewatering and Water Management assets under your jurisdiction are managed to the optimal cost, performance, and risk outcomes over their lifecycle.  As the organisation’s central technical subject matter expert (SME) in Dewatering and Water Management Asset Reliability, you will leverage your extensive operational experience with these assets to provide technical support, continuous improvement, and assurance functions to both site based and central teams.  You will utilise your strong interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships with engineering and maintenance teams across operations that enable you to deliver best-for-business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development, review and optimisation of maintenance strategies
• Develop and review critical work instructions, check sheets, maintenance work instructions etc
• Collaborate with Long Term Planning to develop asset budget forecasting models in alignment with lifecycles expectations for each asset type
• Define, develop, and deliver engineering solutions to optimise whole of life cost and asset performance
• Provide technical expertise to support the business in resolution of challenging faults and issues
• Provide ongoing and enabling technical support to Projects, Operational Readiness, Procurement
• Assist site operational teams in recovery and investigation of major downtime events
• Provide guidance and governance on best practice processes and systems to manage Fortescue dewatering and water management assets in your assigned category
• Provide governance on requested changes to inventory levels for high value components
• Explore process, equipment, and engineering opportunities to reduce risk exposures
• Engage and maintain strong relationships with site teams through regular site visits and interactions

Qualifications and Experience

• Extensive operational experience and equipment technical expertise working with water management assets such as bore and skid pumps, ponds, generators, VSDs, piping and valves
• Reliability Engineering background
• Water management assets design advantageous
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
• 5+ years operational experience with heavy industry fixed plant assets preferably at senior engineer level
• Well-developed interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills with the ability to engage and influence at all levels
• Knowledge of CMMS systems (SAP preferred)

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.

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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.