Principal Mine Planning Resource Centre of Excellence | Perth, Brisbane & Adelaide
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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.
As Principal Mine Planning (RCoE) you will provide enterprisewide technical leadership and subjectmatter expertise to uplift mine planning outcomes across BHPs portfolio. You will shape how mine planning is applied as an integrating disciplinesupporting asset optionality capital allocation and longterm valuethrough strong governance standards and economically rigorous planning practices that are consistent riskaware and aligned to enterprise priorities.
Operating as a senior secondline technical leader you will enable confident highquality decision making through independent assurance governance oversight and trusted technical advice across all planning horizons. You will partner closely with asset teams studies teams Practice Leads and senior leaders to strengthen decision quality manage mine planning risk and uncertainty drive continuous improvement and build sustainable mine planning capability aligned to BHPs future growth agenda.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for mine planning partnering with asset and functional leaders to resolve material mine planning issues shape enterprisewide solutions and uplift planning outcomes across the portfolio.
- Champion mine planning as the integrating discipline that underpins asset optionality capital allocation and decision quality ensuring plans are bottomup economically rigorous and aligned to enterprise value drivers.
- Enable and embed bestpractice frontend loading of the Capital Allocation Plan (CAP) cycle with a strong focus on enterprise optimisation economic rigour and tradeoff transparency across planning horizons and commodities.
- Execute secondline assurance for mine planning providing authoritative oversight of global standards guidelines Independent Peer Reviews and alignment with BHPs risk management and governance framework.
- Lead and deliver highvalue initiatives that materially improve mine planning capability standards and business performance.
- Represent BHP externally as an industry leader in mine planning contributing to thought leadership professional engagement and the advancement of leading practice.
You are a peoplefocused technical leader with deep mine planning experience and a strong track record of influencing outcomes in complex environments. You bring:
- Degree qualified mining engineer (Bachelor of Mining Engineering- or equivalent).
- A minimum of 10 years experience in mine planning underpinned by strong business acumen including involvement in economic modelling and business analysis of minerals assets.
- Deep technical expertise in mine planning as an integrated discipline with experience across all planning horizons.
- Experience across multiple commodities and both site and corporate environments will be highly regarded.
- Proven ability to lead and influence diverse highly skilled mine planning professionals working collaboratively across functions geographies and organisational boundaries and communicating complex issues clearly to drive positive change.
- A strong risk governance and decisionquality mindset with experience operating in secondline assurance governance or independent review environments (desirable).
- Evidence of a strong commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
- Deep subject matter expertise in mine planning in one or more of the following areas: iron ore coal underground metalliferous open pit mining underground ventilation benchmarking and business improvement.
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.
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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 thats more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included treated fairly and with are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includesgenderage race disability status sexual orientation religion neurodiversity education levels and many more aspects of your identity.
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