Senior Track Engineer

Our Opportunity

Location: Port Hedland, Fortescue’s Hedland Operations are located on the traditional lands of the Kariyarra people. 

Roster: 8 Days on / 6 days off – FIFO ex Perth

Fortescue has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Track Engineer to join our high-performing team on a 8 Days on / 6 days off.

This role offers the ideal balance between lifestyle and career progression, giving you the platform to apply your deep technical expertise in track engineering and asset management while making a real impact on one of the world’s leading heavy haul rail operations.

If you thrive on solving complex engineering challenges, leading investigations, and driving asset performance improvements — this is your opportunity to step up.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Track Engineer, you will:

• Development and implementation of new and existing procedures and standards along with the implementation of heavy haul railway best practice.
• Sustain key engineering and reliability systems and processes to support continuous improvement with safe, cost-effective, asset reliability and defect elimination.
• Prepare long term re-railing and renewal plans to support capital projects.

• Lead OEE and defect elimination meetings and provide insight into operational delays and develop actions to minimize operational impacts.

• Prepare long term re-railing and renewal plans to support capital projects.
• Review track asset health and GPR reports, perform analysis on track geometry & IOC response and coordinate system remediation.
• Manage and support Fortescue's contracting partners.
• Providing specialist engineering solutions and strategies across a wide range of asset types and life cycles to ensure asset integrity and reliability.
• Lead small to large-scale engineering investigations and/ or studies. This will include major maintenance activities, failure investigations (Root Cause Analysis), reliability reviews, rectification and upgrade works.
• Identify, assess and manage operational risks.
• Responding to technical queries from other business operations.
• Monitoring Asset Management KPI's, identify gaps in performance and implement actions.
• Coaching undergraduate/graduate engineers.

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• A tertiary Engineering degree (Civil or Mechanical preferred)
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Track Engineering
• Strong experience in contractor management, asset management, and condition monitoring. (track geometry, IOC, grinding etc.)
• Proficiency in SAP, SQL and Microsoft Office Suite
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving capability
• Strong time management and ability to prioritize in a dynamic operational environment
• A genuine commitment to safety, quality and teamwork
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to lead, influence and mentor within the engineering community

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.