Shutdown Scheduler

About the Role

Reporting to the Shutdown Superintendent, you will play a critical role in developing and controlling execution-ready schedules for shutdown maintenance activities across a complex fixed plant operation. You will be part of a team delivering large-scale shutdowns including 288-hour Modular shutdowns and 240-hour Major shutdowns involving 1,200 personnel and multi-discipline maintenance scopes. You will have ownership of an entire portfolio where schedule performance directly impacts plant production.

This is an opportunity to be part of a unique and high-performing processing facility, where your work directly contributes to minimising downtime and improving plant reliability. We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Scheduler who thrives in a fast-paced, high-pressure shutdown environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed, resource-loaded shutdown schedules using MS Project
• Interpret shutdown scopes and generate labour profiles to optimise resource utilisation
• Establish and manage schedule logic, sequencing, and critical path activities
• Facilitate and drive the scope management process, ensuring alignment with shutdown readiness milestones
• Coordinate maintenance schedules in line with labour, equipment, and contractor availability
• Perform resource levelling to eliminate clashes and maximise workforce efficiency
• Integrate and align major outages, supporting shutdown cost tracking and reporting
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure scopes are accurate, executable, and aligned to safe delivery
• Monitor schedule performance during execution and support post-shutdown reporting and close-out activities
• Assist in the development of detailed shutdown work packs
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across planning, scheduling, and execution processes

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience in fixed plant maintenance scheduling within mining or heavy industry
• Strong capability in MS Project and SAP (essential)
• Proven experience building and managing complex shutdown schedules
• Understanding of maintenance execution strategies and work management processes
• Experience in shutdown cost tracking and budgeting
• Mechanical or Electrical trade background (highly regarded)
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence and coordinate across multiple teams
• Ability to perform effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced shutdown environment with competing priorities

About Fortescue

• 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.