AddressAbout the Role
About 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 the role
Reporting to the Superintendent Mine Planning this challenging and exciting role will see you leading a small team of Mine Planning engineers to achieve their core routines, deliver executable dragline and dozer push plans and produce optimised mining sequences and schedules.
This is a Senior Engineer position with a focus on safely and sustainably maximising asset value in the 3 to 18 month Dragline and Dozer Push planning space with key deliverables centred on maximising efficiency and productivity in this system.
In this role you will:
- Safely and sustainable maximise asset value by doing the basics well;
- Provide coaching and mentoring to your team to enable best practice;
- Provide governance over plan inputs to ensure plan feasibility;
- Deliver executable 12-Month Dragline and Dozer Push plans;
- Work closely with external stakeholders (Tactical Planning, Marketing, Integrated Operations and site Operations) to understand key value drivers in any given planning horizon and embed in optimised mine plans;
- Deliver the first year of the 2 Year Budget for the Dragline/Dozer system with support from multiple stakeholders; and
- Leverage experience and capability to drive and implement Mine Planning Improvement initiatives.
- The role offers a 5/2 or 4/3 roster pattern with flexibility by agreement.
About You
As the successful candidate, you will have a tertiary education 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-Shovel and Dragline mines will see you succeed in this role. Dragline design and sequencing is a core pre-requisite for the successful candidate.
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 and scheduling tools (Deswik/Vulcan/SPRY) will provide an adequate foundation for the role.
You will also be a performance and achievement-oriented professional, who is motivated by exceeding expectations and providing excellent results. You will be willing to learn and work in a diverse, fast paced and highly motivated team.
Coaching and mentoring will form a key part in this role as well owing to your position being recognised as the subject matter expert for this process.
Supporting a diverse workforce
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people.
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 and other extended leave entitlements.
