Jobs at First Quantum Minerals

Plans and coordinates tailings storage facility infrastructure, construction, maintenance, and operational activities. Develops integrated schedules, work plans, work packages, progress reports, and planning KPIs. Maintains CMMS records, asset registers, preventive maintenance schedules, spares strategies, and inventory levels. Supports reliability improvement, asset lifecycle planning, risk assessments, shutdown planning, and coordination among operations, maintenance, construction teams, and contractors while ensuring safety and environmental compliance.

Develops and improves reliability strategies for tailings storage facility assets. Leads RCM, FMEA/FMECA, RCA, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, preventive maintenance optimization, asset criticality assessments, and lifecycle planning. Monitors asset health and reliability KPIs, prepares dashboards and reports, supports risk management and compliance, and leads continuous improvement initiatives. The role provides technical guidance to maintenance and operations teams and requires experience with mining or heavy industry assets, CMMS/ERP systems, SCADA, and reliability analytics.

Entry-level commercial development role supporting procurement, expediting, inventory control, supplier coordination, purchase-order tracking, delivery follow-up, ERP updates, inventory planning, material master-data governance, physical counts, reconciliations, and KPI reporting. The role provides supervised practical experience in managing material and information flow for mining operations while following commercial, safety, environmental, and regulatory procedures.

Analyze operational, maintenance, and reliability data to improve plant performance. Develop data pipelines, predictive maintenance models, dashboards, automated reports, and data governance processes. Collaborate with maintenance, operations, engineering, planning, and supply chain teams to identify failures, optimize preventive maintenance, manage bad actors, and support continuous improvement. Provide analytics training and technical support while contributing to equipment reliability, safety, and process control system effectiveness.

Assists with identifying, evaluating, and implementing technology solutions that improve business efficiency. The role researches emerging technologies, develops business cases, collaborates with stakeholders, manages technology implementation projects, and supports existing systems and infrastructure. It also requires analyzing complex problems, applying project management practices, and using data analysis and programming knowledge to address business challenges within the mining industry.

Entry-level finance development role supporting Accounts Payable, Treasury, accounting, fixed assets, reconciliations, payments, cash management, financial reporting, audit readiness, and internal controls. The role involves validating invoices, maintaining supplier and asset records, assisting with monthly close and bank reconciliations, preparing reports, and coordinating with Finance, Procurement, Projects, suppliers, and banks under supervision.

Plans and supervises open-pit mining activities, including drilling, blasting, loading, hauling, and crushing. Oversees grade control, safety, environmental compliance, personnel, equipment, production efficiency, and cost reduction. Conducts inspections, resolves operational issues, coordinates with geologists and engineers, and maintains relationships with communities and government agencies.

Provides advanced technical support and leadership for heavy mining equipment maintenance. Diagnoses complex mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, electronic, engine, transmission, drivetrain, cooling, steering, braking, and control-system failures. Supports major breakdowns, validates faults, guides component replacements and repairs, interprets OEM diagnostics and schematics, conducts post-repair testing, and drives equipment reliability, availability, safety, and cost improvements. Works with maintenance teams, operations, OEMs, and technical personnel in a remote mining environment.

Develops, implements, and manages digital reliability and condition-monitoring systems for fixed plant assets, especially conveyor belts and rotating equipment. Uses wireless sensors, vibration and temperature data, dashboards, and CMMS integrations to support predictive maintenance, failure analysis, downtime reduction, and equipment availability. The role also establishes monitoring standards, supports reliability methodologies, trains maintenance teams, and leads technology trials in remote mining environments.

Manage and optimize wear performance for fixed-plant mining equipment through wear engineering, material selection, 3D scanning, condition monitoring, failure analysis, lifecycle management, and reliability strategies. The role develops wear forecasts, inspection standards, replacement plans, dashboards, and maintenance recommendations; leads supplier trials and continuous improvement; supports engineering and commissioning activities; and trains maintenance personnel on wear monitoring and optimization.

Plans and coordinates the full life cycle of rotable and repairable plant components, including forecasting, inspection, repair, refurbishment, procurement, inventory control, vendor expediting, quality verification, reporting, warranty tracking, and disposal. The role supports maintenance planning, shutdown readiness, reliability improvement, cost control, and component availability while maintaining accurate CMMS and warehouse records and ensuring safety, quality, and governance compliance.

Lead design and deployment of the Senior Proficiency Framework and artisan training to upskill engineering and maintenance staff. Align competency pathways with Asset Management, track KPIs, partner with HR on grading and succession, manage multi-site rollouts, and deliver data-driven reporting, coaching, and change leadership to improve workforce capability and asset reliability.

Entry-level learner role providing hands-on exposure to operational and departmental business processes. Responsibilities include assisting with daily activities and projects, collecting and analyzing data, preparing reports, maintaining records, attending training and meetings, supporting inspections and audits, and suggesting process improvements. The role emphasizes professional development, teamwork, compliance with company procedures, and strict adherence to health, safety, environmental, and quality standards in a mining environment.

Support cost control across multiple mining projects: review requisitions, maintain budgets and forecasts in ERP/Excel, reconcile ledger and cost systems, analyze variances, distribute site costs, use PowerBI for reporting, resolve cost discrepancies, support audits, and provide timely cost data to project managers and senior controllers.

Designs, develops, governs, and optimizes cloud data pipelines and platforms using Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory. Owns data engineering quality, DevOps, CI/CD, release governance, performance optimization, data quality, and service SLAs. The role serves as a technical authority, mentors engineers, manages supplier standards, collaborates with data science and architecture teams, and communicates with business stakeholders. International travel to London-based operations is required at least twice annually.

Expressions of interest are sought from Process and Earthworks Technicians for residential care and maintenance operations in Hopetoun, Western Australia. Responsibilities may include process plant monitoring and troubleshooting, mobile plant operation, earthworks, civil works, and maintenance of roads, dams, ponds, drainage, and infrastructure. Candidates should be safety-focused, reliable, practical, adaptable, and willing to cross-skill. A current driver’s licence is required; mobile plant competencies, an HR licence, mechanical aptitude, and multi-equipment experience are preferred.

Operate a Sandvik D25K drill rig in an open-pit mine to drill accurate blast holes according to drilling plans. Perform pre-start inspections, routine maintenance, equipment monitoring, and drilling-record updates. Apply collaring, production drilling, pre-splitting, and ground-condition techniques. Follow safety procedures, maintain a clean work area, report issues, and coordinate with blasters and other drillers.

Provide metallurgical guidance and production support for a nickel processing plant: perform sampling, analysis, KPI reporting, troubleshooting, process optimisation projects, develop SOPs, support operations, monitor reagent usage, enable data acquisition and analytics, maintain HSE standards, and implement continuous improvement to meet production targets.

Design, implement, commission and maintain control system networks. Perform fault investigations, fiber optic installation/splicing/testing, install network equipment, update network drawings, coordinate testing and training, and support operations to improve network resilience and reliability.

Install, maintain and repair plant equipment and heavy fabrication components. Perform welding, cutting, brazing, gouging, and bucket repairs; read schematics; carry out inspections, preventative maintenance, and safety-compliant work in a remote mining environment.