Reliability Engineer

About the Company

At Liontown, our Kathleen Valley operation is moving confidently into full-scale production. Following our recent capital raise and significant investment in growth, we’re expanding our technical teams to support the long-term success of the mine.

This role will provide technical expertise in the design, modification, and optimisation of mechanical assets across the operation. In this permanent, full-time role based at Kathleen Valley on an 8:6 roster, you’ll play a key role in ensuring safe and reliable equipment performance by delivering practical engineering solutions, supporting maintenance execution, and resolving operational challenges.

About the Role

Reporting to the Engineering & Reliability Lead, your role includes:

This permanent, full-time role based at Kathleen Valley on an 8:6 roster, you’ll play a key role in ensuring safe and reliable equipment performance by delivering practical engineering solutions, supporting maintenance execution, and resolving operational challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Asset reliability & performance improvement to enhance asset availability, reduce unplanned downtime, and improve equipment performance.
• Defect elimination & root cause analysis; applying sustainable corrective actions that prevent repeat failures and improve long-term asset integrity.
• Condition monitoring & predictive maintenance to enable early fault detection and proactive intervention.
• Maintenance strategy & spares optimisation, balancing asset criticality, risk, cost, and operational continuity.
• Data analysis, reporting & insights, including identifying trends and measuring effectiveness, to inform continuous improvement initiatives and support decision-making.
• Stakeholder collaboration & technical influence. Partner with operations, engineering, planning, and external stakeholders to align reliability initiatives with site priorities and execution capability. Provide technical guidance and influence to reliability best practice across maintenance and operational teams.

About You / Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant engineering discipline, e.g. Mechanical Engineering. Additional qualifications in Electrical Engineering will be highly regarded.
• Professional engineering recognition (RPEng, CPEng) is desirable.
• Training in reliability engineering, asset management, or maintenance improvement methodologies (e.g. FMEA, RCA, RCM) is desirable.
• C Class Drivers licence.
• Relevant experience in asset reliability, maintenance engineering, or asset performance improvement within a mining, resources, or asset-intensive environment.
• Proven experience applying reliability engineering principles to improve equipment availability, reduce unplanned downtime, and address repeat failures.
• Relevant experience in contributing to structured defect elimination programs, FMEA, criticality analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and downtime investigations.
• Ability to meet site requirements, including a current National Police Clearance (or ability to obtain), pre-employment medical, and drug & alcohol screen.

Qualifications & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (or relevant engineering discipline) and related qualifications noted above.
• C Class Drivers Licence (required).
• National Police Clearance (or ability to obtain) (required).

What's On Offer / Benefits

• Why join now? With our production ramp-up in full swing, this is a pivotal time to be part of Liontown. Our focus is on building a safe, reliable, and efficient operation – and this role will directly influence the performance and sustainability of our processing operations.
• Why Liontown At Liontown, you’ll be joining a company that’s helping drive the clean energy future. Our operations are designed with sustainability at their core — powered by renewables and built for long-term impact.
• This is your opportunity to take ownership of a pivotal technical role during a major project phase, while enjoying the stability of a long-term site-based position.
• Visit: liontown.com to learn more.

How to Apply

Please visit the company site for application details.