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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
An exciting opportunity exists to join the Copper South Australia (CSA) Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Team in the role of Occupational Hygiene Principal, reporting to the Superintendent Asset Radiation and Occupational Hygiene. As a part of the asset team, you will be an instrumental player in supporting exposure reduction initiatives, as well as establishing and implementing aspects of the site hygiene management plans across Copper South Australia sites. You will identify and assess health risk and recommend controls. You will also advise on occupational hygiene, health & safety matters in the workplace that potentially impact human health from environmental and work-related sources.
This position will be working in BHP Adelaide office on a 5/2 Monday to Friday Roster with occasional site travel as required.
In this role you will:
- Provide leadership, coaching, and subject matter advice to asset and line management, and external customers on key occupational hygiene impacts and regulatory requirements.
- Anticipate, identify, assess, recommend and verify controls on occupational hygiene hazards including dust, diesel particulates, organic vapours, noise, gases, thermal stress, asbestos, vibration and biological agents.
- Set strategic direction on occupational hygiene related initiatives or hygiene risk management.
- Accountable for reporting of occupational hygiene statistics and performance and ensuring quality of hygiene data.
- Recommend and support exposure control options and develop robust control strategies to reduce occupational exposure across CuSA sites. Be responsible for delivering hygiene improvement projects or initiatives to meet internal and external requirements.
- Ensure the success of our exposure reduction strategy by engaging and influencing senior leaders to progress hygiene business plan initiatives at our sites.
- Govern, maintain, and improve hygiene related standards, processes, systems and procedures.
- Implement real time monitoring (RTM) across sites.
- Oversee the occupational hygiene monitoring program as per the hygiene management plan.
- Manage unexpected hygiene events including hazard assessment and recommendation of immediate corrective actions to prevent exposure.
- Support the development of health exposure related training and awareness packages.
- Contribute to the development of Asset ROH team members and build hygiene capability in the wider HSE team and line workforce.
About You
This role will suit an experienced, self-motivated occ hygiene professional who is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our people to support a thriving workforce. You will also be motivated by a fast-paced environment and the opportunity to problem solve and drive positive change.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- An overriding commitment to BHP’s Charter Values
- Degree qualifications in Occupational Hygiene, Health Science, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering or similar.
- Experience leading change and in delivering company-wide hygiene related initiatives or projects in mining or other similar industries.
- High level of technical and practical skills in Occupational Hygiene with strong experience in implementation of engineering controls to reduce exposure.
- Full AIOH Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH) membership or equivalent from other countries with Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH) is preferred.
- Ability to engage, coach and influence multiple stakeholders at varying levels of the organisation on health-related initiatives or matters.
- Strong understanding of health and hygiene related legislation across Australia.
- Ability to work autonomously while also thrive in a collaborative team environment.
- Strong planning, organisational and time management skills
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 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 [email protected].
