Great People, Great Company, Great Future.

We’re a great Australian success story, having rapidly grown to become a major player in the global lithium market. Our Pilgangoora Operation is one of the largest, hard-rock lithium operations in the world.

THE OPPORTUNITY: 

Reporting to the Technology Infrastructure Lead and functionally to the Process Control Lead the System Administrator Processing is responsible for ensuring the company’s OT Processing infrastructure, servers, networks and applications are fully functional whilst providing hands on technical expertise to the business. This role is dedicated primarily to the management and support of the OT plant processing infrastructure.

The primary responsibility of the Systems Administrator (Operation & Processing) is to maintain system availability and reliability as well as data integrity across the operation technology environments. This includes the configuration, management, and documentation of backup systems to ensure full data and system recovery in the event of a major disaster.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

System and Infrastructure

• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of servers ensuring smooth and efficient operations of the processing environment.
• Monitoring performance of hosts, servers, storage, network and systems.
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of storage systems.
• Install, configure, and upgrade software and hardware to company requirements as required.
• Plan and implement new hardware/system into existing environment in collaboration with the Senior Data Centre System Engineer.
• Planning, implementing, and coordinating systems maintenance and back-ups in alignment with operational business requirements and needs.
• Maintaining currency level of system through automatic and regular patching
• Manage / administer servers and technology tools.
• Ensure security through access controls, backups, and firewalls, OT Active Directory management including AD policies.
• IT infrastructure support and Level 1/2/3 configuration tasks,
• Perform database administration in SQL and other proprietary databases and systems and collaboration with the MES application support engineer.
• Establish and maintain appropriate system and security controls, security levels and systems access.
• Monitor system and network performance in the processing environment.

MES and Processing Systems Administration

• Manage and administer MES and plant processing systems in collaboration with PLS Process Control System superintendent.
• Implement and manage Cyber security system in to maintain a stable secure plant processing environment, actively collaborating with the company Cyber Security Lead.
• Work with the Data analytics team to provide access to data from MES and OT systems used in the plant processing environment.  
• Manage and monitor system access including remote access from external parties and vendors

Security, Backup and DR

• Implement, configure, monitor, and operate backup and DR systems for Processing environment
• Manage in house and off-site backups using
• Manage high availability for defined critical systems.
• Implement and manage Cyber security systems in collaboration and under the guidance of the Cyber Security Lead.
• Monitor systems backup to ensure backups are completed successfully.
• Establish and maintain appropriate disaster recovery procedures/processes, inclusive of backup regimes and manage regular DR testing.
• Perform restore and recovery action in the event of systems failure.
• Restore systems and data as required.

Governance

• Maintain accurate record of systems configuration and systems access.
• Build internal knowledge base with technical documentation, manuals, and policies.
• Create and maintain high quality procedures and system documentation where appropriate.
• Ensure compliance for all server and application software used.
• Maintain software details in the asset register.
• Develop system and standards and templates as required.

Service Delivery & Support

• Troubleshoot System issues and outages triaging task to specialist when necessary.
• Provide level 2/3 escalation for the desktop and helpdesk teams in relation to desktop and engineering workstation in Processing environment and control room.
• Diagnose and resolve server-related issues in a timely and efficient manner.
• Provide technical support to end-users and internal teams.
• Assist and mentor Helpdesk and level 2 support staff as required.
• Assist with the monitoring of the job queue status and availability of resources to ensure service levels are maintained.
• Liaise with service providers and progress improvement to service levels for the company

ABOUT YOU:

• Tertiary qualified in Information Technology / Information Systems with up-to-date industry certifications
• Microsoft Certification MSCE
• VMWare certification
• Networking Cisco, Moxa and Juniper certification
• PaloAlto Firewall certification
• Solid experience in a similar role supporting Operation technology systems in a plant processing environment
• Experience across the Microsoft stack and management of Active Directory
• Experience with Rockwell Thin Manager
• Experience with Claroty SRA
• Experience with VMware technology
• Experience with Dell server infrastructure and systems
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

WHAT WE OFFER

• Excellent remuneration package
• Health & Wellbeing Allowance
• Annual short-term incentive as a cash bonus or a cash/share combination option
• Novated leasing through salary sacrifice
• Access to the Company’s KidsCo holiday program
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Community Leave

WHAT WE STAND FOR

• Safety First
• Great People
• We Deliver
• Our Team
• Shaping Tomorrow

PROMOTING DIVERSITY

Pilbara Minerals recognises that talented people come from diverse backgrounds, who can contribute to our successes in different ways.  We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly recommend women and Australian indigenous people to apply.

OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS

As part of our recruitment process, we require proof of eligibility to work in Australia, reference checks, a pre-employment medical, drug and alcohol screen and a National Police Clearance.

We respectfully request agencies not to forward unsolicited resumes unless requested.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Pilbara Minerals respectfully acknowledges the Nyamal and Kariyarra People of the Pilbara, and the Whadjuk Noongar People of the Perth region who are the traditional owners and first people of these lands. We would like to pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of the Nyamal, Kariyarra and Whadjuk Noongar Peoples.

If you are interested in learning more about Pilbara Minerals or registering for future opportunities, please visit our website  www.pilbaraminerals.com.au