Reliability Engineer

Overview

Reliability Engineer to improve plant availability, safety, and asset lifecycle performance across Yara Pilbara’s Ammonia, Urea, TAN, and Utilities assets. Focuses on identifying reliability risks, eliminating repetitive failures, optimising maintenance strategies, and using condition monitoring and data analytics to support safe and reliable operations.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyse equipment health and reliability performance using KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, availability, unplanned downtime) and plant trip history.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA/RCFA) for plant trips, equipment failures, near misses, and reliability threats.
• Conduct Criticality Ranking, FMEA, Bad Actor Analysis, and reliability risk assessments to identify trends and eliminate repetitive failures across rotating, static, electrical, and instrumentation assets.
• Apply structured reliability and data analysis methodologies including Six Sigma (6σ), RCA/RCFA, FRACAS, threat mitigation, and reliability growth modelling to improve asset performance.
• Develop, optimise, and review Preventive and Predictive Maintenance strategies based on failure data and equipment performance.
• Lead condition monitoring, digitalisation, and predictive analytics initiatives to support data-driven decision making.
• Perform Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) studies and recommend improvements to reduce reliability losses.
• Provide technical expertise and engineering solutions to resolve reliability issues and enhance plant safety, availability, and lifecycle cost.
• Support shutdowns, turnarounds, and capital projects by defining reliability-driven scopes and providing input into equipment selection, redundancy, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, projects, OEMs and cross-functional teams to drive continuous reliability improvement.
• Develop and implement reliability-centred design standards, asset maintenance plans, and lifecycle asset management practices.
• Develop and monitor reliability dashboards, KPIs, reports, and recommendations aligned with Yara global standards and frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with Yara asset management systems, technical operating procedures, and site HESQ requirements, including PTW and WOC programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, (MIAust preferred).
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in petrochemical, gas processing, or oil refining industries.
• Proven experience in reliability engineering and asset management.
• Strong knowledge of RCM, PM optimisation, condition monitoring, and reliability methodologies.
• Experience with SAP, MS Office, and Power BI; asset management software exposure desirable.
• Reliability or Asset Management certifications (CMRP, CRE, CRL, CAMA) advantageous.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Benefits

• Karratha residential roles; complimentary housing for duration of employment.
• 5 weeks annual leave.
• Optional RDO roster (including 16 accrued Rostered Days Off per calendar year).
• $35,000 per annum regional location allowance.
• $1,000 annual Health and Wellness allowance.
• Annual bonus program with a target of one month’s base salary.
• $3,000 p.a. electricity/water utility reimbursement.
• Flights for you and dependents, twice per year, after initial service period.
• Relocation assistance.
• 6 months paid primary parental leave; culturally diverse workforce with a DEI Ambassador program, salary packaging, and active Social Club.

Additional Information

Yara celebrates diversity in all operations, practices, and engagement. We encourage people from all walks of life, experience, skills, genders and orientations, races, and backgrounds to apply for opportunities within our growing business. Our values have diversity, equity and inclusion as a foundation, and everyone is part of our success.

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Yara reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement prior to the closing date without prior notice. Apply no later than 20 February 2026