Decarb Delivery Lead - Operations Planning

Our Opportunity

Work Location - Perth Office - Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people. 

Roster - 5 Days / 2 Off

Reporting to the Principal Mine Planning Engineer the Decarb Delivery Lead is responsible for delivering the operational planning standards and ROM operating philosophy required to enable Fortescue’s electrified mining fleet. The role consolidates internal best practice, OEM guidance, and industry research into practical, prescriptive mine planning guidelines, leads site pilots, and embeds standards across operations. The objective is to improve productivity, predictability of ore delivery, ROM efficiency, and decarbonisation outcomes, while ensuring planning processes support energy-constrained and electrified operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a prescriptive Operational Planning Guideline for electrified mining fleets (2-Year to Daily horizons).
• Translate OEM manuals, equipment constraints, and energy considerations into mine design, planning, and operating standards.
• Co-develop and ensure alignment of the Electrical ROM Operating Philosophy, aligning geology, planning, operations, and blending.
• Lead site engagement, pilots, and trials; extract local best practice and convert it into scalable standards.
• Own rollout, adoption, governance, and change management across sites.
• Partner with Electrical Mining, Mining Operational Excellence, and Digital/AI teams to innovate solutions.
• Ensure planning outputs drive predictable ore delivery, automated truck assignment, and system integration in an energy constrained world through curtailment decision making.
• Deliver training, workshops, and mentoring for planning teams.
• Define and report against KPIs for productivity, predictability, and ROM efficiency.
• Capture and embed learnings across all operations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Strong mine engineering background with deep open-pit mine planning and operations experience.
• Demonstrated leadership across short-term to medium-term planning horizons.
• Experience delivering projects, pilots, and multi-site rollouts.
• Familiarity with electrified equipment, operational constraints, and mine control/automation systems (desirable).
• Proven stakeholder engagement, change leadership, and capability-building skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear, practical guidance

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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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.