Underground Mining Reliability Engineer

Oceana Gold

Otago

On-site

NZD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Residential Otago role

9-day fortnight roster

Competitive salary + bonus

Onsite health services

Study assistance

Employee Assistance Program

Free site transport

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Job summary

OceanaGold is seeking a Reliability Engineer for the Macraes underground mine in Otago, NZ. The role focuses on owning and optimising asset strategies, analysing performance, and driving reliability and safety improvements.

You will lead asset criticality, develop maintenance strategies, align data in Pronto CMMS, and conduct Root Cause Analysis to reduce downtime. This residential role offers a 9-day fortnight, competitive salary plus bonus, onsite health services, and study support.

Qualifications

Full, Class 1 diver's licence with manual vehicle driving preferred.
NZ working rights / unrestricted NZ visa required.
Tertiary level Engineering qualification preferred.
3+ years experience working with data.
3+ years experience in a maintenance reliability role in mining or related heavy industry.

Responsibilities

Lead asset criticality assessments, determine mitigation strategies and align stakeholders.
Develop maintenance strategies and tactics, including intervals and spares.
Build and align master data in Pronto (CMMS) for asset registers, PM tasks, BOMs.
Analyse performance data via ad-hoc analysis and structured reports.
Lead defect elimination and continuous improvement to close performance gaps.
Monitor asset condition and recommend corrective maintenance based on condition monitoring results.
Monitor and report on performance using fleet data and Pronto data.
Facilitate and lead Root Cause Analysis of losses or near misses.