Engineer Mine Production | Operations Services | 12 Month Secondment (Australia)

In this role, you will provide planning support to the Production Superintendents, helping to translate short-term mine plans into safe, achievable, and efficient operational outcomes.

Drawing on your mine planning expertise and operational experience, you will play a key role in interrogating weekly and monthly plans, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring plans are practical, executable, and productive.

Key deliverables:

• Maintain and support a strong safety culture through field leadership, hazard identification, participation in investigations and compliance reviews.
• Identifying and recommending solutions around enabling activities to support SRF development and compliance.
• Monitor critical path activities, identify schedule risks and constraints, and support delivery of business targets through effective planning and forecasting in Weekly and Monthly horizons.
• Provide plan compliance reporting, identify variance drivers to improve plan quality, reliability and stability.
• Partner with Mine Planning, Operations and Technical teams to ensure successful execution of the plan, review accuracy of surveyed volume and develop improvement initiatives.

• Degree qualified Engineer with demonstrated experience in mine planning, mine scheduling or production engineering roles
• Experience with mining software packages such as Spry, Deswik, Vulcan or similar and genuine proficiency in Excel
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capability, with the ability to influence across planning, technical and operational teams
• Understanding of the mining value chain, especially between planning and operational execution
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining plan quality and accuracy.

About Our Process At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role.

As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks.

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program.

We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life.

These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day.

We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all.

If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation.

If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.