BlueScope is an Australian-born, global success story, spanning 18 countries, with a team of over 15,000 people. We’re driven by innovation and are proud that the technologies in our products and brands, like COLORBOND® steel, inspire and protect everything from hospitals and bridges to stadiums and homes.

The Opportunity

Come and discover the opportunity to join our Hot Coil Processing Despatch (HCPD) team at our Port Kembla Manufacturing facility as a Mechanical Engineer. As a part of the broader Australian Steel Products portfolio, we have six major manufacturing sites at Port Kembla that deliver a variety of products, innovative solutions and services to our export and domestic customers.

The HCPD Operations is one of the key assets in the Hot Mills business that manufactures and despatches a range of coil products including Hot Rolled Coil, TRU-SPEC® Steel, EMBAR™ Steel and Hot Rolled Slit Strip largely into the domestic market.

This exciting and well-rounded opportunity that offers a combination of detailed design, reliability engineering, and project engineering welcomes both junior and experienced Mechanical Engineers who hold a design background within a heavy industrial environment.

What will you do?

Being key to this role, you will:

• provide mechanical design solutions with manufacturing leading practices to maximise uptime performance to maintain or improve plant condition
• provide technical engineering advice regarding suitable solutions for equipment remediation and improvements
• help develop and implement maintenance strategies to maximize equipment uptime and minimise maintenance costs. Conduct failure mode and effect analysis (RCA) to identify potential failure modes
• prepare, schedule, coordinate and monitor the assigned engineering projects
• monitor compliance to applicable codes, practices, QA/QC policies, performance standards and specifications
• deliver engineering solutions and services to agreed schedules.
• provide quality, cost effective engineering solutions that meet process functional requirements and operating plant life.
• work collaboratively with and provide technical advice to other engineers

More about you

Supported by a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree, you will have experience in applying your engineering knowledge within a heavy industrial environment.

Ideally, you will bring:

• proven knowledge and a track record of mechanical engineering design, including the completion and checking of detailed calculations;
• a general knowledge of Inventor and AUTOCAD as well as other engineering analysis packages;
• good working knowledge of drafting processes;
• other qualifications and experience within project engineering is highly regarded
• a strong safety focus and the ability to work collaboratively with a team and multiple customers.

Why BlueScope

As BlueScope continues to go from strength to strength, a career with us provides you with the opportunity to grow and be rewarded. At BlueScope, you will:

• create and deliver innovative solutions that drive transformation in our business
• make an impact that really does shape the world we live in
• keep growing through continuous learning and development opportunities
• enjoy the sense of belonging that comes from working with people who genuinely look out for one another

At BlueScope, our people are our strength, and we don’t say that lightly. We want our people to be successful, and to be safe. We offer work-life flexibility through our B-flex program and make sure our inclusive work environment welcomes people of all backgrounds. We’re passionate about driving sustainability outcomes that matter to our communities, including action on climate and our 2050 net zero goal. And we’ll do this through Our Purpose: We create and inspire smart solutions in steel, to strengthen our communities for the future.

Come and discover us at bluescope.com/life-at-bluescope/careers.

Together we can make a world of difference.

Applications close Monday 3rd June 2024. 

Do you

• know Linux in various levels of diagnostics and troubleshooting?
• write code to automate repetitive tasks every time you face repetitive work?
• smile when you solve an issue in Frankfurt from your laptop in Sydney?

Answer 'yes' to these questions and we would like to hear from you. Go ahead, hit the Apply button and let's have a chat about your skills and experiences.

Want to know more about us?

Now that we have set the pace, keep reading if you want to understand more about the role and the SRE team. 

As reliability engineer in the SRE team you will :

• Provide relief and sustainable resolution to issues within our infrastructure.
• Use your experience in software development, systems engineering and networking to proactively prevent repeatable issues.
• Drive initiatives with partner teams to improve the reliability and performance of the infrastructure through improved system design.
• Drive a culture of intolerance to manual activity which results in a highly automated environment delivering scalable solutions.

Now a bit about the SRE team

The SRE team is a group of highly technical engineers who are tasked with maintaining and developing the reliability, scalability and performance of the ServiceNow infrastructure. The SRE is empowered to drive technical resolutions across the technology stack from hardware through to application and all stops in between. They are also tasked with driving forward the operability of the platform to drive down the number of incidents and to reduce MTTR.

To accomplish this the team combines software development, networking and systems engineering expertise with a strong desire to be challenged by problems of scale and complexity and to make services better for our customers.