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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 the Role
Saraji is one of nine metallurgical coal mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. The Saraji mine is an open pit coal mine located near Dysart in Queensland's Bowen Basin on the traditional lands of the Barada Barna people. It is one of Australia's largest mines, by recoverable coal reserves. Saraji mines the Moranbah Coal Measures, blending from up to 11 coal seams.
Reporting to the Drill & Blast Lead, as the Drill & Blast Specialist you will be engaged in advanced Drill & Blast design processes to enable safe, quality production. Team Saraji Drill & Blast pride themselves on performance, results and innovation. Using your already solid mine planning skills and experience you will work closely with the wider mine planning team and operations to strive for safe and efficient mine plans that are aligned to business requirements.
This is a great opportunity to showcase your leadership and technical capability in a dynamic and challenging role that will set you up for a range of development opportunities. You will also have access to a supportive, inclusive and results-oriented leadership team.
Our team prides itself on flexible work and with this we are open to tailoring time onsite and at home that fits your lifestyle and will make you productive and engaged in the work.
In this role you will:
- Put safety above all else and strive to remove hazards
- Mentor engineers in best practice
- Deliver D&B plans that meet business needs in a timely fashion
- Communicate model outcomes and your vision/strategy to Production Coordinators and Operations Execution teams
- Participate in the investigation of reported events for Production Planning
- Identify and implement Production Planning improvement initiatives
- Build cross-functional relationship with the Operational sub-functions and interact extensively with the Planning sub-functions
About You
As the successful candidate, you will have a tertiary education, background in mining engineering with previous experience working at an operations level. Your demonstrated experience working in mine planning teams particularly planning and scheduling for truck and shovel will see you succeed in this role.
As well as your strong communication and interpersonal skills, you will have demonstrated ability to build relationships across departments and able to communicate at all levels. A strong working knowledge of design tools (SPRY/Deswik/Vulcan), Microsoft Office software packages are desirable.
You will also be a performance and achievement oriented professional, who is motivated by exceeding expectations and providing excellent results.
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.
