Specialist Track Condition Monitoring | Iron Ore | FIFO or RESI | 5/2 4/3
Australia
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BHP Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) operates and maintains approximately 1384km of track, including over 425 turnouts. The rail asset is critical to the WAIO operation. It serves as the sole means of transporting iron ore from mine to port via trains in excess of 2.5km long, comprising 264 ore cars. In FY24 the network transported 287Mt of iron ore. Managing the condition of the track asset is therefore of fundamental importance to BHP’s WAIO operation. Key to ensuring the network can operate is a solid condition monitoring framework, which is captured by our Track Recording Vehicle, a fleet of instrumented ore cars, a team of expert inspectors and various other teams gathering niche information. The Track Condition monitoring team is the brains behind bringing this together, turning the data into meaningful and actionable outputs, informing our execution maintenance and renewal teams to enable our business strategies.
About the Role
Reporting to the Rail Network Maintenance Track Condition Monitoring Lead, this is a key role to ensuring that the condition of the rail Track asset is adequately understood, managed, controlled enabling the implementation of maintenance and renewal strategies. The role is crucial to BHP’s rail operation.
At the heart of the condition monitoring team is our Track Recording Vehicle which routinely records the condition across our track asset. The Specialist Condition Monitoring will be responsible for ensuring that data recorded is processed in a timely and accurate manner, enabling and leading the investigation and escalation of identified points of interest across the network. The role will develop and retain trusted relationships across the RNM team, serving as a trusted track expert with maintenance, renewal, reliability and inspection teams.
The team is at a point of generational change and the role represents the opportunity to shape the legacy of BHP’s Track Condition Monitoring team.
The role will be based at Port Hedland, on a 5/2 or 5/2,4/3 roster offering Residential and FIFO options.
You will have the following responsibilities:
- Ensure conformance with the BHP Charter, the BHP Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct, and relevant statutory obligations.
- Oversea the processing and validation of data captured from BHP’s track recording vehicle.
- Desk top and occasional field verification of track condition faults;
- Analysis of network condition using all available data sources to build a considered understanding of asset condition and communicate accordingly to inspection and execution groups.
- Monitoring specific areas of interest across the network, analysing and reporting on work effectiveness and enabling the sustainable improvement of maintenance practices.
- Identification and analysis of data quality issues and contribute to their rectification.
- Undertake track fault trend analysis, enabling the instigation of reliability engineering activities for sustainable rectification.
- Lead the development and refinement of Condition Monitoring analysis tools.
- Lead a variety of continuous improvement initiatives.
- Building, refining, and sustaining Condition Monitoring routines and processes aligned to our key value drivers, applied throughout all levels of RNM.
- Identifying potential risks to the asset and the business.
About You
You will have highly developed critical thinking skills, with a natural curiosity to challenge the status quo and an unquenchable thirst for continuous improvement.
You will be highly personable with an ability to develop deep and effective working relationships with our various rail teams. You will have highly attuned communication skills to break down complex matters to non technical team members and other stakeholders and enable the delivery of exceptional outcomes that achieve organisation objectives and provide legacy improvements.
You will have:
- Tertiary/ Bachelor degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering.
- Experience and exposure to utilising Track Quality data for the purposes of condition based decision making is essential.
- Experience in rail Track Engineering is essential.
- Experience in the Track Renewals, Maintenance or Inspection would be preferable.
- Experience in Track Reliability engineering will be highly regarded.
- Understanding of reliability and asset management principles will be beneficial.
- Experience developing, documenting, implementing and refining new processes would be highly regarded;
- Experience with work management tools would be highly advantageous, with proficiency in 1SAP being highly regarded.
- Ability to influence, engage with & communicate effectively across multiple levels, business units, functional areas and external stakeholders.
- A high commitment to safety, quality, attention to detail and procedures.
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