Job Description
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Residential Position – Queensland Metals Operation
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Attractive salary package and employee benefits
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Excellent opportunity to join a global mining and metals business
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Our client, Glencore Mount Isa Mines, is seeking an experienced Reliability Engineer (Smelter) to join their Queensland Metals Operation. This is an outstanding opportunity for a reliability-focused engineer to play a key role in improving asset performance, reliability and plant availability across one of Australia's most significant copper smelting facilities.
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Located in the heart of Queensland's northwest, Mount Isa provides the opportunity to build a rewarding career within a global mining and metals business.
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The Opportunity
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Working closely with maintenance, operations, projects and engineering teams, you will provide technical reliability support across the Lead & Copper Smelter. You will focus on improving equipment reliability, eliminating recurring failures, optimising maintenance strategies and delivering continuous improvement across critical plant assets.
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What's on Offer
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Attractive salary package
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Residential role with a ******* roster
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Rental assistance and above-market superannuation
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Ongoing technical development and career progression
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Exposure to major capital projects and strategic reliability initiatives
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Long-term career opportunities within a global mining and metals business
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Access to employee benefits, including retail discounts and wellbeing programs
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Key Responsibilities
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Lead and participate in major failure investigations, RCA and ICAMs.
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Analyse asset performance and downtime data, including MTBF, MTTR and availability.
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Develop and optimise maintenance strategies for critical equipment.
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Utilise condition monitoring data including vibration, thermography, oil analysis and UT to assess asset health.
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Support shutdown inspections, major overhauls and recommissioning activities.
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Conduct criticality, reliability, fit-for-purpose and spares analysis.
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Identify and deliver continuous improvement and defect elimination opportunities.
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Provide technical input into CAPEX projects and maintenance strategies for new equipment.
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Support maintenance planning and SAP asset data integrity.
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Work closely with maintenance and operations teams to identify and resolve plant reliability issues.
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Support compliance requirements for critical plant and equipment.
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Experience Required
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Degree qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering or a related discipline.
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Demonstrated experience as a Reliability Engineer, Asset Engineer, Maintenance Engineer or similar.
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Experience within mining, mineral processing, smelting or other heavy industrial environments.
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Solid knowledge of reliability engineering, maintenance strategies and asset management principles.i
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Experience with failure investigations, RCA/ICAM, condition monitoring and continuous improvement.
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Strong understanding of asset performance and reliability KPIs.
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Experience using SAP or other CMMS maintenance systems.
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Strong communication, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
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A practical, hands-on approach to reliability and continuous improvement.
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Experience within copper, lead, zinc, concentrator, smelting or other metallurgical processing environments will be highly regarded.
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📌 Reliability Engineer (Smelter) (Mount Isa)
🏢 Stellar Recruitment
📍 Mount Isa