Principal Planner | Brisbane
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Job Summary
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.
Provides planning and scheduling excellence across a portfolio of projects including governance forecasting and performance insights that enable safe predictable and value-driven project delivery.
- Develops and communicates insights that guide data driven action and decision making.
- Develops safe project delivery and contractor performance strategies to maximise portfolio value and enhance improvement and innovation.
- Monitors and manages project performance to deliver projects in line with safety standards requirements budget and scope.
- Defines project objectives/schedules identifies critical activities monitors the project plan/schedule and drives continuous improvement initiatives across projects at BHP.
- Applies and evaluates change management tools methods data purpose value and strategic direction.
- Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs.
- Strives to achieve 100% safety 100% customer value and 0% waste.
- Engages the capabilities of the entire organisation.
- Act as the Planning & Scheduling Subject Matter Expert driving planning excellence through technical governance assurance mentoring continuous improvement and the application of best-practice scheduling forecasting risk and performance management methodologies
- Provides functional leadership and assurance for Earned Value Management practices across projects ensuring consistent application of EV methodologies performance measurement baselines forecasting techniques and portfolio reporting.
- Provides expert guidance on critical path management recovery planning and scenario modelling to support delivery of project and portfolio objectives.
- Establishes and governs integrated planning standards including development of resource-loaded and cost-loaded schedules across engineering procurement construction and commissioning phases.
- Extensive experience in project planning and scheduling within mining resources energy or major capital project environments.
- Expert Primavera P6 capability including development and management of integrated resource-loaded and cost-loaded schedules.
- Demonstrated experience developing and baselining integrated project schedules across all project phases from study and initiation through engineering procurement construction commissioning and handover.
- Experience in critical path management forecasting schedule optimisation and recovery planning.
- Experience conducting schedule assurance reviews and providing independent challenge to improve schedule quality credibility and delivery outcomes.
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively across projects operational and contractor environments.
- Experience operating within complex Owners Team environments integrating and assuring schedules across multiple contractors delivery partners and project stakeholders is highly desirable but not essential.
- Power BI and advanced data visualisation/reporting skills would be advantageous.
Applications are open until 28 Aug 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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About Company
At BHP what we produce is essential for the world to continue to grow and make the transition to cleaner energy possible.
