Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth - Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people

Roster: Monday to Friday

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity. The key mission of this role will be to deliver analytical methods to sharpen the feedback loop between operational performance and AI systems development, ensuring our AI systems deliver measurable improvements to operations productivity.

This role is suited to experienced individual contributors who deliver autonomously in a range of settings. It would suit candidates coming from a range of backgrounds, including operational performance analysis, or data science with experience in heavy industrial operations. Regardless of background, the right candidate will bring a strong ability to analyse operational performance, define novel analytical methods, models and approaches to measure and validate performance changes, and to engage with AI development and operational planning & analysis teams to communicate insights and identify opportunities to improve these methods.

Key Responsibilities

• Development of analytical methods to measure operational performance changes and validate attribution across multiple initiatives
• Collaborating with domain SMEs to share insights, investigate alternative perspectives, and refine measurement methods
• Working closely with AI development teams to share model and operational performance insights
• Prototype AI-supported analysis workflows, using agentic methods to accelerate and scale robust analysis methods
• Supporting community development through technical engagement and leadership on data science topics

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in data science or operational analytics
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, science or a related field, or equivalent experience in operational analytics in heavy industrial environments
• Practical experience in data science tools, including Python and SQL
• Experience in applying statistics to operational performance analysis, including causal inference, multi-factor analysis and experimental design
• Experience in multi-disciplinary teams, particularly business and technology
• Ability to effectively communicate analysis methods and insights
• (Optional) Experience in generative AI methods and technologies, including agents and LLMs, to support analytical workflows

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.