AddressAbout BHP
At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
Come and be a part of this success.
About Value Engineering Group
BHP’s Value Engineering group was established to identify, maximise, and implement value-adding capability and performance improvement opportunities across the value chain of BHP’s assets.
We are a collaborative team of Data Scientists, data analysts, simulation specialists, and engineers, who combine these skill areas to analyse the end-to-end value chain of BHP’s assets. The analysis aims to identify, evaluate, and recommend opportunities to lift asset capability and performance in the short, medium, and long term. In your day-to-day role, you will be working alongside value analytics and simulation leads, principals, and specialists, using the data and drawing on the knowledge of operations and business subject matter experts linked with BHPs assets to design and track the effectiveness of improvement recommendations.
About the Role
We are currently recruiting for 6 months Secondment/Fixed Term with potential to extend another 6 months.
As a Specialist Data Analyst, you will be part of a global team identifying and delivering performance improvement projects through the application of cutting-edge analytics, operational and engineering expertise. We are looking for multiple roles with varying degree of expertise; hence all applications are welcome.
You will join the Value Analytics team, working collaboratively alongside other Value Engineering specialists, simulation and data analytics professionals, and operations and business subject matter experts to address BHP’s biggest and most complex challenges.
Reporting to Lead Value Analytics, your key focus areas in this role include, but not limited to:
- Identify business and performance improvement opportunities across the BHP value chain.
- Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that the relevant business problems are properly defined.
- Investigate complex problems using a structured problem-solving approach.
- Write code and conduct analysis utilising a range of technologies and techniques.
- Enable performance improvement by producing actionable insight from data.
- Confidently present ideas, results, and recommendations to stakeholders at all organisational levels.
About You
As a successful candidate you will possess the following:
- Demonstrated relevant data science & analytics experience.
- Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or analytics-related discipline.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills, while maintaining a practical and strategic focus.
- Have experience programming in Python to:
- Perform hypothesis tests to support the certainty of findings.
- Build descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive models.
- Perform structured and unstructured data mining.
- Perform dimensionality reduction and feature engineering.
- Apply machine learning and statistical modelling techniques.
- Have strong presentation and communication skills.
- Have experience in project scoping and executing work using a disciplined and structured approach to attain project goals.
- Have experience in exploring and proposing new ideas that may have benefits for the business.
Other highly regarded experience includes:
- Practical experience in mining, resources, or similar heavy industry.
- Experience working in engineering and/or management consulting.
Application close on Thursday, 30 May 2024.
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, and/or reference checks.
If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.
Supporting a Diverse WorkforceThe 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 *********@bhp.com.
