Senior Reliability Engineer

Glencore is one of the world’s largest globally diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities. Our operations comprise of around 150 mining, metallurgical and oil production assets. Our purpose is to responsibly source the commodities that advance everyday life. Employing 135,000 people globally, people are at the heart of our business, and we aim to attract employees who endeavour to be leaders in their field. To you, that means more opportunities to grow your career, grow your experiences, and grow your network of colleagues, mentors and even lifelong friends. All whilst making your mark on the future.

Our Zinc Assets in Australia include multiple & geographically dispersed operations, including underground and open pit mines, processing plants and port facilities. Globally we have Zinc operations across Asia, both North and South American continents and Europe which translates to a world of potential career opportunities for you. Mount Isa is home to the majority of our assets in Australia and this role can be either based residentially in Mount Isa (always our preference) or potentially on a FIFO roster from either Brisbane, Townsville or Cairns. Mount Isa is one of the better facilitated mining towns around the country. With a local community of around 20,000 residents there are multiple choices of schools, supermarkets, and activities. From arts and culture to a thriving sporting community and more, it is the central hub for the surrounding area housing key government services for the region and hosting events such as the largest rodeo in the southern hemisphere.

Focusing on the Lead Zinc processing plant you will guide a small team in the safe and strategic implementation of reliability-centered maintenance protocols and general plant support activities to keep the plant running at optimal levels of throughput due to increased availability, reliability, and capacity whilst making cost savings through maximizing high-value component life. Some of your key responsibilities will be:

1. Overseeing the implementation of maintenance strategies, tactics, and tools, to reduce the cost and complexity of planned maintenance tasks.
2. Ensuring plant compliance to standards on all statutory equipment by conducting periodic audits, engaging with third parties, or as required by revisions to legislative guidelines.
3. Facilitating failure investigations and implementing defect elimination initiatives.
4. Providing technical plant support to operations and maintenance departments.
5. Identification of critical equipment risk areas and supporting Capital Expenditure Budget planning process.
6. Identifying and delivering continuous improvement initiatives.
7. Mentoring and developing your team and graduate engineers within the Processing department.

You will have tertiary studies in an appropriate engineering discipline or extensive experience in the field of reliability engineering. As you will be heading a team and guiding others you will need several years of experience working in the resources sector with processing plant experience highly regarded. Practical application of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and similar methodologies. You can identify what data is useful to collect (and what isn’t), how to safely, cost-effectively and efficiently collect it and most importantly utilize the data consistently. You be proficient with maintenance management systems (we utilize SAP). Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing and problem-solving skills with leadership positions highly regarded. You enjoy coaching and developing others and gain satisfaction through incremental improvements.

You will be challenged if you are up for it. Our plants are a mix of old and new, and we like to innovate. You will find other skilled reliability people working in the smelters, mines, and mobile fleet teams in close proximity to your plant. And apart from being in a worldwide organization for your career to grow, you will join a team of people who are enthusiastic about their work and enjoy what they do. You will be supported to achieve results in your field and if you desire to go above & beyond there is space to explore new ideas and influence change. Come join a team who encourage & expect you to make improvements and make a difference.