Senior Risk Advisor

Our Opportunity

Location: Perth – Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people

Roster: Monday to Friday

*This role will be offered as a 12-month fixed-term/secondment

We are seeking a Senior Risk Advisor to implement and embed Fortescue’s risk management framework across Integrated Operations (IO). This role is Perth-based with regular engagement across IO functions and operational interfaces. The focus is on strengthening the consistency, quality and discipline of risk management practices across planning, decision-making, and operational execution.

You will work closely with IO leaders and site-facing teams to ensure material risks are accurately captured, controls are clearly defined, and control verification activities are completed to standard. The role requires ongoing coaching of Risk Owners and Control Owners to improve capability and ensure risk and control performance meets Fortescue expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and embed Fortescue’s risk management framework across Integrated Operations, ensuring risks and controls are clearly defined, current, and aligned to standards.
• Facilitate risk workshops and support Risk Owners and Control Owners to complete material risk reviews, control development, and control effectiveness testing.
• Monitor and verify compliance with CCVs, CETs, and MRRs, ensuring issues, failures, and trends are identified, escalated, and addressed.
• Provide accurate, practical risk advice to leaders and functional teams to support planning, prioritisation, and operational decision-making.
• Drive data quality and completeness in CGR, ensuring risk and control records are maintained to an auditable standard.
• Identify gaps in risk processes or control design and coordinate remediation actions with relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in operational risk, safety risk management, or similar roles within mining, resources, industrial operations or major hazard environments.
• Demonstrated experience applying or improving risk frameworks within operational or corporate settings.
• Strong facilitation skills, particularly in risk workshops and coaching.
• Proven capability in analysing complex information to develop meaningful insights and recommendations.
• High level of resilience, professional objectivity, and ability to influence leaders and teams.

• Tertiary qualification in safety, engineering, business, or similar (desirable).
• Professional risk management qualification (desirable).
• Experience using risk management systems and strong proficiency in MS Office (desirable).

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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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

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.