Reliability Engineer - Mechanical
About the role
Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer, the Reliability Engineer – Mechanical works closely with maintenance and operations teams to improve the reliability, availability, and performance of mechanical plant and equipment across site. The role focuses on developing and implementing preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, supporting breakdown and scheduled maintenance activities, and delivering reliability-based improvement initiatives across fixed plant and infrastructure assets.
This position provides engineering input across crushing, conveying, dewatering, hoisting, ventilation, and concentrator assets, with a strong focus on safety, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities for the role include:
- Developing and maintaining reliability strategies and programs for mechanical assets
- Implementing preventive and predictive maintenance tactics to improve equipment performance
- Supporting maintenance teams with engineering input for planned and breakdown maintenance
- Delivering reliability-based improvement projects from scoping through execution
- Analysing asset performance data, trends, and condition monitoring results
- Managing technical documentation, drawings, and work pack quality
- Preparing asset reports, including end-of-month reliability reporting
- Ensuring compliance with relevant Australian standards and regulatory requirements
About you
You are a mechanical engineer with experience in mining or heavy industry environments and a strong interest in asset reliability and continuous improvement. You bring sound technical capability, analytical thinking, and the ability to work collaboratively across maintenance and operations teams.
- You hold an engineering degree or equivalent qualification
- Experience with mechanical systems such as crushing, conveying, dewatering, hoisting, ventilation, or concentrator plant
- Exposure to condition monitoring techniques (vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis)
- Strong problem-solving, planning, and communication skills
- A safety-focused mindset and commitment to compliance and best practice
About us
From humble beginnings in 2010, Evolution Mining is now a leading gold producer, operating six mines across Australia and Canada. Enacting our vision to be inspired people creating a premier global gold company, we are a bold team with a bright future. Our operational diversity offers employees access to many experiences and career opportunities within the one company.
At Ernest Henry
At Ernest Henry, our mine life extension to 2040 and a doubling of ore reserves offers more operational diversity on site, and a bright future for our people and the community.
Your Benefits
At Evolution, we support, develop and reward everyone who chooses to be part of our bright future. Benefits include relocation assistance, salary packaging (novated leasing and remote area housing), quarterly bonuses, employee share scheme, referral bonuses, recognition programs, study assistance, discounted health insurance, and allowances for DIDO and local employees.
The roster for this position is 8/6/7/7
At Ernest Henry, you can choose FIFO, DIDO, or local living in the close-knit community of Cloncurry. We understand flexible work means something different to everyone and encourage conversations about available options.
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