Superintendent Platform Engineering & Release

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Our Opportunity

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

Roster: Monday to Friday

The Superintendent – Platform Engineering and Release is a senior engineering leadership role responsible for leading the Platform Engineering and Release Management functions across Autonomy delivery. This role provides strategic and technical leadership to ensure engineering platforms, release governance, configuration management, environments and deployment processes support the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of the Autonomous Haulage System. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, the role drives continuous improvement through automation, robust engineering practices and high-performing platforms that enable quality outcomes and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Platform Engineering and Release Management functions across Autonomy delivery
• Own and continuously improve the release governance framework, ensuring releases are planned, approved, communicated and deployed safely
• Lead the DevOps and Platform Engineering teams responsible for CI/CD, build automation, deployment automation and engineering tooling
• Oversee platforms supporting source control, configuration management, release governance, workflow automation and engineering reporting
• Ensure software, firmware, hardware, builds, environments and deployment artefacts are controlled, versioned and fully traceable
• Establish and maintain development, integration, verification, SIL, HIL, staging, site and production-like environments
• Drive adoption of engineering tools and automation that improve delivery efficiency, quality and developer productivity
• Monitor and improve release readiness, deployment success, configuration compliance and platform performance
• Provide technical leadership to balance engineering quality, operational risk and delivery objectives
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and engineering excellence.

• Extensive experience in complex engineering or mission-critical hardware and software environments
• Proven leadership experience across platform engineering, DevOps, release engineering or configuration management
• Strong understanding of release governance, CI/CD, change control, traceability and baseline management
• Experience managing engineering platforms, automation frameworks and developer tooling
• Demonstrated experience with development, integration, verification, SIL, HIL, staging and production-like environments
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering and systems integration principles
• Experience implementing configuration management practices across complex engineering environments
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder engagement and people management skills
• Strong technical judgement with the ability to balance quality, operational risk and delivery outcomes
• Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is desirable.

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds 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 across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ 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.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.