Principal - Strategic Mine Design | Copper SA (88619)
Principal - Strategic Mine Design | Copper SA (88619)
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About the Role:
BHPs copper province in South Australia (Copper SA) comprises the Olympic Dam Prominent Hill and Carrapateena underground mines with smelter and refinery complex at Olympic Dam. The company is also progressing the Oak Dam exploration prospect.
Reporting to the Superintendent Strategic Mine Planning you will be part of a team supporting growth studies Life of Asset planning and Mineral Reserves reporting to the Copper SA assets. Through insight and innovation you will play a critical role in longterm strategic mine planning to support and align with business priorities. This unique role can influence and inform strategic mine planning outcomes across multiple assets using various underground mining methods while interfacing with project teams to deliver value. Your extensive industry experience will enable you to develop and maintain effective working relationships with a wide stakeholder group with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation.
Location: Adelaide South Australia
Roster: 5 days on; 2 days off office hours based in our Adelaide Office (occasional visits to site will be required)
Department:Strategic Planning and Studies
Manager: Superintendent Strategic Mine Planning
Employment Type: Permanent.
Applications close: May 1 2025
In The Role You Will:
- Develop mine planning strategies to support growth opportunities within the Copper SA province.
- Support the integration and optimisation of the Copper SA.
- Focus onunderstandingand supporting mine longterm planning and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Leverage your expertise and industry connections to bring new technologies and ways of working to the business to improve safety and productivity.
- Promote mine planning as the vehicle that supports collates and drives forward all technical disciplines and asset optionality.
- Support the annual Ore Reserve estimation and declaration.
- Provide technical support for significant mine planning projects studies and reviews.
- Apply divergent thought to value optimisation for the operations.
- Communicate and collaborate with other Planning and Execution teams.
- Plan/Design to extract the value from the orebody by working with the other Planning and Execution teams.
- Develop scopes of work to engage additional external stakeholders as required to support business needs.
- Project management of packages of work as required to support studies.
- Monitor and maintain progress for all design work using the relevant team tools.
About You:
- Degree qualified in Mining Engineering (or equivalent) with a strategic mindset.
- Extensive experience in underground mine planning and operations across various operations/projects.
- Expertise in underground hard rock mining methods including caving methods.
- Demonstrated experience in a studies environment.
- Demonstrated successful communication of complex issues and influencing positive change.
- Demonstrated experience leading and influencing diverse groups in a large organisation.
- Demonstrated deep technical knowledge of mine planning as an integrated activity with all other technical disciplines.
- Sound written and verbal communication skills.
- Previous experience delivering studies through to operations readiness and execution advantageous.
- Previous experience as a Competent Person for Ore Reserves Reporting is advantageous.
- Proficiency in Deswik software suite.
- Proficiency in Cave mining method production scheduling software.
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 emailaddress or apply via our internaljobsportal.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce:
The size stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significantopportunity for professional development but also attractive salary packages withperformancebased bonuses and a bestinclass employee share program. We knowthere are many aspects of our employees lives that are important and work is onlyone of these so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. Thesebenefits include flexible working options a generous paid parental leave policy otherextended leave entitlements and parent rooms.
At BHP we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunityemployer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace whereeveryone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating aworkforce thats more diverse and represents the communities where we work andlive. providing a work environment in which everyone is included treated fairly andwith are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversityincludesgenderage race disability status sexual orientation religionneurodiversity education levels and many more aspects of your identity.
BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair equitable andaccessible for all. If you have a disability we know that it may be helpful for us toadjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would liketo reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process pleaseemail us at
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
