Contract: Senior Mechanical Reliability Engineer - Fixed Plant / Perth

This will be an ongoing contract, 8/6 FIFO roster ex Perth, you choose your fly out days.  We can consider a casual or fixed term contract choice for this role.

Working with the Fixed Plant Maintenance and Engineering Team, your role will be to provide technical support in driving defect elimination, improvement initiatives and identifying opportunities to support safe and reliable fixed plant operations. Establishing and maintaining relationships with the fixed plant maintenance, production, planning, inventory, and engineering teams will be critical to ensure success in this role.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Demonstrate strong safety values by supporting Field Leadership, Safety Audits, Risk Assessments, and Safety Initiatives that drive positive safety outcomes.
• Examine asset performance and work management trends and identify opportunities to consistently improve equipment reliability and productivity. Enable, influence & support maintenance team(s) to achieve these.
• Guide and facilitate root cause analysis from identified gaps in equipment and work management performance. Ensuring corrective actions / recommendations are in place to prevent recurrence of identified failure mode(s).
• Identify and drive initiatives / projects to capture value across: Safety, Volume, Cost and Culture. With focus on improving MTBF, equipment availability and direct cost savings.
• Provide technical support and guidance to Fixed Plant Maintenance team/s.
• Provide input into Maintenance budget forecasting, and review equipment critical spares.
• Manage End-to-End asset life cycle and consistently optimise asset management strategies to deliver business requirements.
• Build strong relationships with all the internal and external stakeholders to influence and drive outcomes to deliver business goals.
• Responsible as a control owner in identified risk area to support compliance and adherence to the risk framework.

To be considered, you will need to meet the following criteria:

• Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering.
• Senior experience in Mechanical Reliability Engineering in Mining Fixed Plant environments.
• Ability to influence, engage, & communicate with stakeholders effectively across all levels of the business, from front-line employees to senior management.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative approach to finding practical solutions utilising continuous improvement processes.
• Ability to apply management of change & risk principles.
• Willingness & ability to learn, adapt to change, & step-up as a leadership delegate when required.
• Perth, WA based
• Hold a C Class Licence.
• Have full Australian Working Rights.
• Can provide a clean National Police Clearance.