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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
Reporting the to the Manager Operations, Exploration, the Superintendent Operations is responsible for leading diverse and capable teams in the safe and efficient planning and execution of all exploration field activities in alignment with organizational standards and commitments and regulatory requirements.
Key Accountabilities
- The role is accountable for planning and safely executing all field activities within the defined scope, schedule, and cost objectives.
- Develops plans and schedules for geoscience operations activities, tracks, and measures progress against plans/schedules, implements corrective measures for deviations and effectively communicates these to impacted stakeholders to enable contracts and activities to be completed as per approved plans.
- Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework, and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
- Identifies, engages, and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Assesses the feasibility of data collection sites, supervises the execution of field activities, and carries out workplace inspections of safety and efficiency.
- Verifies compliance to plan, budget, and contract.
- Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
- Prioritizes work effort and resources accordingly, track work status and develops contingency plans.
- Creating and sustaining a mature safety culture through engaging, developing, and coaching team members and contractor partners.
- Encouraging innovative thought and driving continuous improvement in exploration operations systems and processes.
- Building strong effective working relationships across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, including external business partners.
- Fostering an engaged, diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone is motivated to achieve their full potential.
About You
- Degree in Geosciences, Engineering, or equivalent experience in Operations related discipline.
- At least 15 years of working experience in project leadership and project management roles in mineral exploration.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, ability to work with multicultural teams and engage and influence a broad range of stakeholders.
- Experience in establishing, leading, and supervising remote exploration work sites.
- Demonstrated strong planning, organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced proficiency in English is required.
- Proficiency in project management software required, i.e. MS Project, P6, Wrike, etc.
- Proficiency in ArcGIS will be highly regarded.
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].
