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🥝 Mechanical Engineer - Whitehaven Coal

Whitehaven Coal | Australia, Australia | Posted June 04, 2026

Job Description

About the Role

Whitehaven Coal is seeking our next Mechanical Engineer to join the team at Vickery Mine.   Reporting to the Maintenance Engineering function, this role will play a key part in improving plant reliability, reducing unplanned downtime, and supporting the safe and efficient operation of site assets.

Working closely with maintenance, operations, OEMs, and engineering stakeholders, you will contribute to reliability improvement initiatives, condition monitoring programs, shutdown planning, and capital project activities across site.

What You’ll Do

  • Support reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives across fixed plant and site infrastructure
  • Investigate equipment failures and downtime events to identify root causes and drive permanent corrective actions
  • Develop and optimise maintenance strategies, standard jobs, and procedures
  • Support condition monitoring programs including vibra...

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