Engineer Reliability
Workplace Type: Onsite
About Newmont
At Newmont, we’re not just a world-leading gold and metals producer – we’re a team united by our commitment to shaping a more inclusive, sustainable, and responsible mining industry. Joining us means becoming part of a global, diverse workforce where everyone is valued, empowered, and encouraged to grow. Our people are the heart of our success, bringing exceptional skill, integrity, and dedication to everything we do as an organization and we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive.
About Lihir
Our Lihir Operation, located on the beautiful island of Niolam, approximately 800km north of Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby, is one of the world’s largest gold mines. Set within a geothermically active, extinct volcanic crater, Lihir operates an open-pit mine producing refractory ore, which undergoes pressure oxidation and conventional leaching to recover gold. Our workforce includes both residential and commute rosters, creating a diverse and dynamic team. Lihir offers a range of recreational facilities, including a gym, sports club, restaurant, bar, swimming pool, tennis and squash courts, and a 9-hole golf course. For those who enjoy the outdoors, the Lihir fishing and boating clubs provide access to pristine waters and beaches, while our onsite deli and café serve fresh local and imported produce, barista-made coffee, and freshly baked goods.
We are proud to work closely with the local Lihirian community and value its vibrant culture. Through initiatives like our School to Mine program, we offer meaningful employment, training, and development opportunities for Lihirian men and women, as well as scholarships and vocational apprenticeships. We also partner with the New Ireland Province to ensure economic benefits flow directly to the community, strengthening our commitment to sustainable development and positive local impact.
Your Impact
As a Reliability Engineer, you’ll play a key role in lifting the performance, availability, and safety of our mobile fleet. Your technical insight will directly influence maintenance quality, reduce defects, and help drive a culture of reliability across operations. You’ll support decision‑making, improve how we maintain critical equipment, and ensure our fleet operates predictably to meet site objectives.
As part of our team, you will
- Apply reliability engineering principles to improve mobile fleet performance and reduce maintenance costs.
- Support site teams with asset strategies, life‑cycle costing, and data‑driven maintenance decisions.
- Lead reliability programs including defect elimination and Maintain for Reliability (M4R).
- Analyse maintenance performance data to uncover opportunities for improvement.
- Conduct root cause analysis and share learnings across teams to strengthen reliability culture.
- Champion best‑practice maintenance and ensure reliability principles are embedded across the AM function.
- Work collaboratively with supervisors, technicians, and cross‑functional specialists to achieve safe, consistent outcomes.
Prerequisites for your success in this role
- Tertiary qualification in Mechanical Engineering
- 5+ years’ experience in large‑scale mining or heavy industry.
- Strong background in heavy mobile equipment maintenance (e.g., Cat 785, 777, 992/993, 773, 336, 390).
- Skilled in fault finding, diesel engine diagnostics, and failure analysis/RCA.
- Ability to develop and improve maintenance strategies.
- Competent SAP user and proficient in MS Office.
- Strong communication, teamwork, and problem‑solving skills.
- High attention to detail and capable of working independently when required.
- PNG Class 6 Driver’s Licence.
Your work environment
This role is offered on a 21:21days only Fly in, Fly out (FIFO) roster to Lihir Island, PNG.
Our FIFO employees stay in a secure and comfortable camp, in an en-suite and airconditioned room equipped with mini fridge, TV and Wi-Fi. A variety of healthy meal options are catered for at our mess; and the wet mess provides a relaxed social setting where employees can unwind with a game of pool or darts.
At Newmont, our commitment to diversity and inclusion ensures that everyone can work to their full potential, free from discrimination, while respecting the cultures, religions, and governance of the regions in which we operate. Guided by our values of Safety, Integrity, Sustainability, Responsibility, and Inclusion, our Lihir team – 90% of which are Papua New Guinean – is dedicated to creating a culturally rich and supportive environment where meaningful, long-term connections can be formed within the industry.
We believe in the strength of our people and the positive impact we can create together. Newmont employees are rewarded with a competitive salary, flexible packaging options, and programs that recognize those who go above and beyond. We know no candidate meets every qualification listed, so if you share our values and feel you can make a meaningful contribution, we encourage you to apply – we’d love to hear from you!
