Reliability Engineer

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About Yara Pilbara

The Yara Pilbara Fertilisers' plant is one of the largest ammonia production sites in the world and we have also taken the ammonia process further downstream with the Yara Pilbara Nitrates Technical Ammonium Nitrate (TAN) plant, a joint venture with Orica. Together with ENGIE, Yara Pilbara will also build a renewable hydrogen plant to produce renewable ammonia.

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Yara International: Yara International | Responsibly feed the world and protect the planet
Yara Pilbara: Yara Pilbara | Yara Australia

We are always looking for ambitious and curious-minded colleagues who are keen to make a difference, whilst residing in the nearby coastal city of Karratha, Western Australia, a key community in the region with a resource focus and a relaxed, friendly lifestyle. All Karratha-based roles offered are on a residential basis.

About the Role

Looking for an exciting new challenge? We are seeking an experienced Reliability Engineer to improve plant availability, safety, and asset lifecycle performance across Yara Pilbara’s Ammonia, Urea, TAN, and Utilities assets. This role focuses on identifying reliability risks, eliminating repetitive failures, optimising maintenance strategies, and using condition monitoring and data analytics to support safe and reliable operations.

Key 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.

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Profile

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.

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.
For more information on Yara International please access www.yara.com.au
Yara reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement prior to the closing date without prior notice.

What's On Offer

Karratha housing assistance 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 yourself and dependents, twice per year, after initial service period
Relocation assistance
As well as 6 months paid primary parental leave, culturally diverse workforce with a DEI Ambassador program, salary packaging, and active Social Club

Apply no later than

20 February 2026

Knowledge grows through differences
Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks.

As part of our recruitment process, where permitted by local law, we may conduct reference and background checks. These checks will only be performed when deemed necessary for the nature of the job. Candidates will be informed by HR before any background checks are initiated.