Reliability Engineer - Heavy Mobile Equipment (Ancillary)

Fortescue Metals Group; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 81,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mining company is seeking a Reliability Engineer for their operations. The role involves providing maintenance support for heavy mobile equipment, analyzing failures, and implementing solutions to improve fleet performance. Candidates should have a degree in Mechanical Engineering and experience in heavy mobile maintenance or mineral processing. Strong communication and knowledge of CMMS like SAP are key requirements. Join an inclusive team committed to innovation and excellence.

Benefits

Inclusive work culture

Opportunity to join a leading organization

Qualifications

• Experience in a heavy mobile maintenance environment desired.
• Experience in mineral processing environment or similar desired.
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering/related field is required.
• Strong communication with a self‑starter attitude.
• Knowledge of computerised maintenance management systems (e.g. SAP) desired.

Responsibilities

• Daily interaction with supervisors for hands-on input into strategies.
• Review and interrogate reports and KPIs to identify common faults.
• Provide reliability support to ensure equipment maintenance aligns with strategies.
• Conduct RCA to identify root causes of chronic failures.
• Participate in planning to ensure feasibility of assumptions and targets.
• Propose improvement ideas based on detailed examination of issues.
• Identify critical spares for optimal maintenance of HME assets.

Skills

Heavy mobile maintenance experience

Mineral processing experience

Strong communication skills

Knowledge of CMMS (e.g. SAP)

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Job description

Reliability Engineer - Heavy Mobile Equipment (Ancillary)

Country/Region: AU

State:

City: Perth

Job ID: 13908

Location: Solomon - Fortescue’s Solomon mine is located on the traditional lands of the Eastern Guruma and Yindjibarndi peoples

Roster: 8D6RFIFO ex Perth

Fortescue is currently seeking a Reliability Engineer to provide direct technical and maintenance engineering support for site-based HME maintenance activities. Assist HME maintenance department to make well‑informed maintenance decisions to reach cost‑effective solutions with minimal impact to production requirements. Analyse failures to determine root cause and proactively implement maintenance regimes to prevent reoccurrences. Identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives to improve and maintain the overall HME fleet performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily interaction with supervisors and workshop personnel for “hands on” input into strategies and improvement ideas
• Review and further interrogate daily, weekly, monthly reports and KPI’s to identify common faults and trends to apply problem solving and root cause analysis, with a continual improvement focus
• Provide reliability support to all sites to ensure that equipment is being maintained in accordance with our maintenance strategies and WOL plans
• Conduct RCA to identify root causes of major or chronic failures preventing or eliminating failures
• Actively participate in the planning process to ensure that assumptions & targets are technically feasible (as applicable)
• Propose improvement ideas based on detailed examination of anticipated or recurring issues of a technical or specialist nature
• Identify and recommend critical spares that are required to ensure optimal performance of HME assets and their forecast maintenance plans

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience in a heavy mobile maintenance environment desired
• Experience in mineral processing environment or similar desired
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering/related field
• Strong communication with a self‑starter attitude
• Knowledge of computerised maintenance management systems (e.g. SAP) desired

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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