Our Opportunity

Work Location: Fortescue’s Iron Bridge project is located on the traditional lands of the Nyamal people.

Roster: 8D/6R 

Reporting to the Shutdown Superintendent, this is a critical leadership role responsible for the safe and successful delivery of large-scale shutdowns within a technically complex magnetite processing operation.

You will facilitate the technical planning and execution of major 240-hour and modular 288-hour shutdowns involving up to 1,200 personnel across multi-discipline maintenance, projects, and inspection scopes. Your leadership will directly influence plant availability, asset reliability, and production performance.

During shutdown execution, you will provide technical quality assurance by verifying work is completed in accordance with approved procedures, critical settings and measurements are correctly applied, and all required quality documentation and signoffs are completed before equipment is returned to service.

This is a high-impact opportunity for a proven shutdown professional who thrives in fast-paced, time-critical environments and is motivated by delivering safe, efficient, and high-quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate shutdown readiness in line with the 16-week planning process, collaborating across Engineering, Maintenance, Planning and Operations.
• Ensure all shutdown work packs contain accurate technical documentation, procedures, drawings and commissioning requirements.
• Identify and resolve technical risks, documentation gaps and quality issues before shutdown execution.
• Provide technical support during shutdowns, ensuring maintenance activities comply with engineering standards and approved procedures.
• Conduct quality assurance inspections and verify technical sign-offs, commissioning requirements and equipment readiness before handback.
• Manage vendor performance to ensure work is delivered safely, to specification and in line with maintenance standards.
• Drive reliability and continuous improvement through defect elimination, lessons learned and enhanced shutdown documentation and processes.
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Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience in fixed plant maintenance, technical planning, engineering support or shutdown coordination within a heavy industrial environment.
• Strong understanding of maintenance work management processes, quality assurance and technical documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in high-pressure, time-critical environments.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical specifications, OEM documentation and maintenance procedures.
• Experience working collaboratively with Engineering, Maintenance, Planning and Operations stakeholders to deliver technically robust maintenance outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to identify technical risks, documentation gaps and quality issues.
• Experience undertaking quality assurance activities, technical verification and maintenance compliance within a shutdown or maintenance environment.
• Proficient in SAP and the Microsoft Office suite.
• Mechanical trade qualification is essential for this position.
• Engineering background highly regarded.

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.