O&M Technician

About the role

Operations and maintenance technicians for the transition to operations of Cloudbreak Solar Farm, a solar farm near Newman, Western Australia.

The role in detail

Fortescue is the EPC contractor on Cloudbreak Solar Farm, a solar farm near Newman, Western Australia. This campaign recruits the operations and maintenance technicians who take the plant over as construction ends.

What you will do

• Carry out scheduled inspections and preventive maintenance on trackers, inverters, the battery yard and the balance of plant
• Diagnose and repair faults on the field, the inverter stations and the monitoring systems
• Monitor plant performance and respond to alarms and callouts under the site roster
• Keep the maintenance records and the spare-parts inventory current

You will need

• An electrical or mechanical trade background, ideally with solar farm or battery experience
• A White Card and a driver’s licence; an electrical licence recognised in Western Australia is an advantage
• Comfort with monitoring systems, test equipment and maintenance software
• The reliability a permanent local operations role depends on

About this campaign

• This opening belongs to the O&M W1 wave of the Cloudbreak Solar Farm recruitment plan
• The positions shown on this page represent recruitment across the campaign wave, not the number of workers on site at any one time.

Tickets & licences

• White Card

Additional tickets are added only where the specific position requires them.

Pay & conditions

• Employment: Full time
• Pay: $48 an hour + penalties
• Penalty rates: Yes — award penalty rates apply
• Accommodation: Camp accommodation
• Accommodation details: Roster: 2:1 FIFO from Perth. Cloudbreak mine camp; FIFO from Perth, 2:1 roster.