Senior Risk, Reliability & Data Analytics Engineer
Location: Perth, WA
Contract: Initial 12-Month Labour Hire Contract
Hours: Approximately 40 hours per week with occasional site travel
Industry: Energy | Mining | Resources
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Risk, Reliability & Data Analytics Engineer to join a major energy and operational readiness team supporting a growing portfolio of transmission, distribution, renewable energy, and power infrastructure assets.
This role will be responsible for developing and implementing risk-based reliability and maintenance strategies, leading FMECA and RCM studies, improving asset performance, and delivering data-driven insights that support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. Working closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Projects, and Master Data teams, you will ensure reliability strategies are successfully transitioned into operational systems and maintenance plans.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, maintenance, and assurance of FMECA and reliability programs across operational energy assets.
- Apply reliability engineering methodologies including RCM, FMEA, FMECA, RCA, and asset criticality assessments.
- Develop and optimise maintenance strategies based on risk, operational history, condition monitoring data, OEM recommendations, and asset performance.
- Analyse failure trends, outages, maintenance data, and asset health information to identify improvement opportunities and reduce operational risk.
- Facilitate reliability workshops and technical reviews with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Translate approved reliability strategies into SAP/EAM-ready maintenance plans, task lists, job plans, and master data requirements.
- Support SAP implementation activities and verify the accuracy of maintenance strategies following system integration.
- Develop reliability dashboards, reporting tools, and performance metrics to support decision-making.
- Maintain risk registers, action plans, defect elimination programs, and asset improvement initiatives.
- Support operational readiness activities from project delivery through commissioning, handover, and transition to operations.
- Conduct site visits and field verification activities to validate asset information and maintenance requirements.
- Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, OEMs, and project stakeholders to improve asset reliability and performance.
- Ensure compliance with HSEC, asset management, governance, and technical standards.
Requirements
- Degree qualification in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Asset Management, or a related discipline.
- Extensive experience in reliability engineering, maintenance strategy, asset management, or asset risk management within energy, mining, resources, utilities, or heavy industry environments.
- Strong experience applying RCM, RCA, FMEA, FMECA, asset criticality, and risk-based maintenance methodologies.
- Proven ability to analyse reliability, maintenance, condition monitoring, and outage data to improve asset performance.
- Experience developing maintenance strategies and implementing reliability improvement initiatives.
- Practical knowledge of SAP PM/EAM or similar enterprise asset management systems.
- Experience working with asset hierarchies, technical objects, maintenance plans, task lists, job plans, and master data.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to convert technical findings into practical business outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.
- Ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities, and deliver outcomes in a complex operational environment.
- Experience using data analytics and reporting tools to generate reliability insights and decision-ready reports.
- Current Australian working rights and willingness to travel to operational sites as required.
Highly Regarded
- Experience with power generation, transmission and distribution networks, substations, renewable energy, battery energy storage systems, or other energy infrastructure assets.
- Knowledge of ISO 55000 Asset Management principles and reliability engineering standards.
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, Python, or similar analytics tools.
- Chartered Engineer, CPEng, CMRP, or equivalent professional accreditation.
- Experience supporting operational readiness, commissioning, asset handover, and project delivery activities.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients.
With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.
Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered. (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)
If you would like to be considered for the position, please apply directly to this advertisement or send your application via email to louis.tham@airswift.com with your updated CV/ resume & contact details. Alternatively, you may contact Louis at +61 (08) 6245 0671 for more information.
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