Electrical Reliability Engineer | Prominent Hill
Electrical Reliability Engineer | Prominent Hill
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About The Role:
Prominent Hill is a copper-gold mine a long-life asset that is part of the BHP South Australia copper province. BHP is a global company with operations in Australia North and South America across 5 different commodities.
Youll be a valued and trusted professional for the Electrical Engineering team and drive initiatives that enable operational excellence. The purpose of the Electrical Engineer is to provide electrical engineering capability & support to manage and optimise assets and processes to ensure Safe Sustainable and Reliable performance on site. This is to be compliant with regulations and BHPs policies procedures and standards.
Location: Prominent Hill South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 4 days on; 3 days off
Department:Maintenance Reliability
Manager: Superintendent Reliability
Employment Type: Permanent
Applications close: 11 July 2025
In this role you will:
- Adequately control and monitor site electrical infrastructure (HV & LV) and ensure compliance to all relevant Australian Standards.
- Applying reliability engineering principles tools and techniques to identify and rank the major production loss/high cost contributors for the process plant equipment. Seen as an expert facilitator/problem solver using a variety of tools. Specific focus on ensuring that issues are solved completely to their root cause.
- Monitor and contribute to maximising the whole of life cycle equipment performance. Aims to reduce total costs associated with equipment failures.
- Ensures the application of reliability principles to new equipment installations for maximising plant availability at the conceptual and design phases.
- Identify scope gain approval design cost and implement reliability projects with a focus to improve the overall equipment availability in line with business objectives.
- Facilitates understanding at execution team and individual level of failure modes effect and causes.
- Act as translator between the language of business (availability MTBF Downtime Utilisation Root Cause etc.) and the language of the shop floor.
About You:
- Strong background in the principles of asset management and reliability of High Voltage systems not essential to have mining/mineral processing experience
- Electrical maintenance practices of Preventative Corrective and Breakdown tasks through engineering background.
- Interpret engineering drawings OEM equipment specifications and recommendations condition based monitoring results and maintenance history to influence plant maintenance strategies
- Review plant performance parameters of Availability Utilisation Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Cost
- Apply accounting principles to set track analyse and revise budgets for maintenance of plant and equipment and projects
- Experience in assessing and investigating equipment failure investigations such as Route Cause Analysis (RCA).
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 withperformance-based bonuses and a best-in-class 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
Employment Type
Full Time
