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 the Role
We currently have a fixed term Health & Safety (H&S) Superintendent role to partner with Newman Operations leadership team within the WAIO H&S Business Partnering Team. Reporting to the Eastern Manager H&S Business Partnering, this is an unique opportunity to further develop and apply your H&S leadership skills and experience within a mature mining environment.
This role will be offered as a FIFO-based role from Perth on a 5/2,4/3 FIFO roster.
The role provides leadership to a team or teams focused on the strategic management of health, hygiene, safety, and HS assurance related issues, processes, provisions, and initiatives across BHP. Coaches and develops team leaders / teams to deliver high performance.
In this role you will:
- Provide leadership for a team of high performing and capable H&S professionals providing support to operational site leadership teams, and be an active contributor to the H&S Leadership team across the Newman Operations landscape of Whaleback & Eastern Ridge.
- Contribute the ongoing development of excellent team culture.
- Build capability within the operational leaders to enable them to create the desired health, safety and environment culture, and enact their H&S risk management and compliance requirements.
- Identify, prioritise and implement required H&S strategies and initiates to support successful operational outcomes.
- Support the site implementation of relevant H&S Business Plan initiatives.
- Support the implementation of BHP Operating System (BOS) within the operational teams and the integration of key H&S elements within the operation's BOS routines to achieve H&S KPIs for the operation, function and Asset.
- Govern and maintain the design and implementation of H&S standards, procedures and systems.
- Drive continuous improvement of the four safety basics across the operation.
- Ensure provision of technical expertise and deliverables of health, hygiene, Security & emergency management and safety requirements.
- Work collaboratively with other H&S teams to improve H&S delivery and risk management across the Asset.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have a proven passion for safety and a culture of care. You will also have:
- An overriding commitment to BHPs Charter Values.
- Experience in leading teams either directly or indirectly.
- Passion for creating an engaging, supportive & inspiring culture.
- Demonstrated commitment to achieving proactive H&S outcomes.
- Flexibility and willingness to travel to sites across the WAIO portfolio.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence at multiple levels in H&S, with both internal and external parties.
- Forward thinking and proactive work style.
- A proven ability to develop and implement strategic and tactical plans.
- An advanced understanding of BHP H&S standards and systems, as well relevant legislation.
- Formal qualifications and/or equivalent experience in health and safety or related discipline such as science or business.
- Greater than 5-10 years' experience within the mining and resource sector or equivalent.
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 inclusion@bhp.com.
