Senior Reliability Engineer

at  BHP

Date: 24 Jan 2025
Job Posting End Date: 07-Feb-2025;15:59:59GMT
Job Country:Australia
Job State/Province: Western Australia
Job Location/Region: Pilbara

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in the role, candidates should demonstrate a team-oriented mindset and solution focused attitude. We will be looking for people with the following skills and experience:

• You will have a tertiary qualification in Mechanical Engineering and/or equivalent Trade Qualification within a relevant engineering or maintenance discipline and relevant reliability experience within mining or heavy industrial environment
• Ability to influence, engage, & communicate with stakeholders effectively across all levels of the business, from frontline employees to senior management
• Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative approach to finding practical solutions utilising continuous improvement processes
• Proficient-level of experience with all Microsoft Office Applications & 1SAP
• Ability to apply management of change & risk principles
• Willingness & ability to learn, adapt to change, & step-up as a leadership delegate when required
• Solid experience as a Reliability Engineer or Maintenance Engineer within the mining, or oil & gas sector will be highly advantageous.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Reliability Superintendent of Mobile Equipment Maintenance and joining an inclusive and high performing team, your role will provide technical support to our Reliability Engineers by applying Reliability Centred Maintenance principles in driving defect elimination, improvement initiatives and identifying opportunities to support safe and reliable fixed plant operations. Establishing and maintaining relationships with the mobile maintenance, production, planning, inventory, and engineering teams will be critical to ensure success in this role.
This position is based at South Flank and is offered as a 5/2, 4/3 FIFO roster.

You will help drive the South Flank’s strategic plan with the following responsibilities:

• 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 Mobile 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
• Support and be an advocate for BHP Operating System (BOS) Principles and Practices
• Build strong relationships with all the internal and external stakeholders to influence and drive outcomes to deliver business goals

To be successful in the role, candidates should demonstrate a team-oriented mindset and solution focused attitude. We will be looking for people with the following skills and experience:

• You will have a tertiary qualification in Mechanical Engineering and/or equivalent Trade Qualification within a relevant engineering or maintenance discipline and relevant reliability experience within mining or heavy industrial environment
• Ability to influence, engage, & communicate with stakeholders effectively across all levels of the business, from frontline employees to senior management
• Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative approach to finding practical solutions utilising continuous improvement processes
• Proficient-level of experience with all Microsoft Office Applications & 1SAP
• Ability to apply management of change & risk principles
• Willingness & ability to learn, adapt to change, & step-up as a leadership delegate when required
• Solid experience as a Reliability Engineer or Maintenance Engineer within the mining, or oil & gas sector will be highly advantageous