Job Overview & Organization Mission

Advance your professional career at Pilbara Minerals as Process Safety Engineer (Major Hazard Facility) in Pilbara, WA, driving operational performance across key lithium assets.

Pilbara Minerals is currently recruiting an experienced and dedicated Process Safety Engineer (Major Hazard Facility) to join the team in Pilgangoora, Pilbara, WA, Australia. Operating on a 8/6 FIFO roster from Perth, this role reports directly to the Site Health and Safety Manager and is responsible for delivering high-standard operational deliverables that underpin safe, continuous production.

Based at the world-class Pilgangoora lithium operation—the largest independent hard-rock lithium deposit globally—you will be an essential contributor to fixed plant reliability, mobile equipment availability, and metallurgical processing excellence powering the international battery and electric vehicle markets.

Key Duties & Core Responsibilities

In this critical role, your operational duties and key performance responsibilities will encompass:

• Process Safety Management (PSM) Framework: The Process Safety Engineer will provide the organisation with technical process safety engineering discipline support including developing, implementing and monitoring process safety management systems (and supporting elements) to ensure effective and consistent use to manage risk.
• HAZOP & LOPA Risk Facilitation: Core duties and responsibilities of this role:.
• Safety Critical Element (SCE) Performance Standards: Process Safety Risk Management.
• Chemical Hazard Consequence Modeling: Detect and evaluate and assess process safety hazards across the Mid-Stream pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical circuits – including thermal, chemical, stored-energy and loss-of-containment hazards – and maintain a clear, prioritised view of where the most significant risk sits.
• Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis: Facilitate and document practical risk studies (HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, Bowtie) scaled to the hazard, ensuring outputs are usable decisions and actions rather than documents that sit on a shelf.

Required Qualifications, Licenses & Experience

To be successful in this position at Pilbara Minerals, candidates are expected to satisfy the following essential selection criteria:

• Mandatory Qualification: Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical / Process) with Process Safety Competencies (HAZOP/LOPA)
• Relevant Experience: Minimum 5+ Years of verified operational mining or industrial experience in Australia.
• Chemical / Process Engineering Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Process, Mechanical or Safety Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Formal Process Safety Certification (FS Eng): Approximately 5+ years’ experience in process safety, technical safety or risk engineering within chemical processing, minerals processing, oil and gas or comparable heavy industry.
• Major Hazard Facility (MHF) Regulatory Knowledge: Demonstrated record of taking process safety issues through to practical, implemented resolution in an operating plant – not assessment and reporting alone.
• Facilitation & Auditing Skills: Current Australian work rights and authorisation to work in Australia.
• FIFO Readiness: Bias to action – a proven ability to drive issues to closure, not simply identify and document them.

Core Competencies & Key Technical Proficiencies

The successful applicant will possess demonstrated capabilities across the following domain skill sets:

Salary, Compensation & Employee Benefits

At Pilbara Minerals, we understand that our people drive our achievements. An outstanding remuneration and wellbeing package is provided in line with Australian benchmarks:

• Competitive Remuneration: AU$165,000 – AU$195,000 per year + standard Australian Superannuation (11.5%). (Salary structure is not officially stated by the employer; this represents the general industry standard for this position in Western Australia.)
• Quarterly short-term incentive (STI) performance bonus recognizing operational achievements and business performance.
• Direct equity alignment through the Pilbara Minerals employee share scheme.
• Access to newly refurbished camp facilities at Pilgangoora, featuring state-of-the-art gym, tennis, pickleball and volleyball courts, sports oval, and scenic walking trails.
• Comprehensive paid parental leave providing 18 weeks for primary carers and 4 weeks for secondary carers.
• Annual health and wellness subsidy, salary sacrificing for novated vehicle leasing, and paid community volunteer leave.
• Full confidential support through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company chaplains, and KidsCo school holiday programs.
• Leave Entitlements: 4 weeks annual leave (with 17.5% annual leave loading where applicable) plus 10 days paid personal/carer’s leave.
• Flexible Work & Career Growth: Progressive culture with supported career development pathways across a high-growth ASX lithium leader.

About the Employer: Pilbara Minerals

Pilbara Minerals produces and exports high-grade lithium spodumene concentrate to global battery cathode manufacturers. Operating the world-class Pilgangoora operation in Western Australia, PLS is at the forefront of the global transition to clean energy technologies.

Pilbara Minerals is deeply committed to building diverse, equitable, and culturally inclusive work environments. We proudly celebrate diversity and welcome applications from all qualified individuals including First Nations Australians, people with disabilities, and candidates from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Application Process & Next Steps

Applications for this position are currently open and being reviewed on a rolling basis. Suitable candidates are encouraged to apply as early as possible before the published closing date.

Please prepare an updated Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a tailored Cover Letter highlighting your relevant experience against the key selection criteria outlined above.

To proceed with your application, click the Apply on Employer Site button to access the official Pilbara Minerals careers gateway.