Business Improvement Specialist | Nickel West | FIFO or Residential | 5/2:4/3
BHP
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.
About Nickel West
Nickel West is a fully integrated mine-to-market business. Our culture is rich with technical know-how, highly efficient and focused on innovation. The business employs over 2500 people from five operations across Western Australia comprising of nickel underground and open-cut mines, concentrators, a smelter and a refinery. We also have plans to expand our operations with new mines in the northern Goldfields and a large nickel sulphate plant in Kwinana.
A member of the BHP Group, Nickel West is undergoing an exciting business transformation to become a globally significant supplier of battery materials to the electric vehicle market. Nickel West will soon become the world’s largest producer of Nickel Sulphate, a key ingredient in lithium-ion batteries. As the world’s largest producer of nickel briquettes and nickel powder, Nickel West is leading the new-energy revolution in Western Australia.
Nickel West has an exciting future ahead. We invite you to join us at Nickel West as we seek to energize our future.
About the Role
Reporting to the BHP Operating System (BOS) Line Coach, you will be working in a team of professionals located in Leinster tasked with managing a broad variety of Underground and Opencut Mining, Concentrator and Maintenance Teams across Nickel West sites.
The main focus for this role is to provide both initial and ongoing coaching to Supervisors and the general workforce in the application of the BOS tools and methods and work to embed a new way of working.
You will upskill everyone in problem-solving skills and support the frontline and leaders to develop and sustain new ways of working. You will be hands-on in implementing systematic improvement and be central in embedding the BHP Operating System across our business.
You will utilise innovative approaches, tools, and technology to add real value to our assets – setting new standards to guide improvement activity, elevating and supporting our people. You will gain insight and training in the BOS methodology and will be expected to upskill others through your work.
Your key deliverables include:
- Continuous improvements in frontline safety, productivity, and cultural metrics.
- Provide coaching to the frontline and their leaders
- BOS tools embedded among the Frontline.
- Progress reports on implementation and other BOS tools.
You will be fully trained in the BHP Operating System to support your role and ongoing mentoring and guidance from experienced Coaches and ensure your success.
About You
We are looking for individuals that possess business knowledge, demonstrate excellence in leadership on a day-to-day basis, who are innovative with a bias to action, effectively influence others, and have a strong ability to build capability in others and lead change.
As a successful candidate you will possess the following:
- The ability to effectively identify opportunities to increase value and eliminate hazards, waste, and variability.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative approach to finding practical solutions.
- Experience as an Execution Supervisor or similar.
- Ability to understand production/ maintenance (systems) data.
- Ability to engage with all levels of the business from frontline employees to higher-level management.
- While it is not mandatory, experience with Lean/ Continues Improvement will be advantageous.
- Your diversity of thought and practical experience will be embraced, and you will be working with a manager who encourages open communication and will empower you to utilise your existing knowledge and skills to make a real difference.
Previous experience in underground and open cut mining and/or recognised continuous improvement disciplines is advantageous but not essential for this role.
In this full-time permanent position, you will be based in Leinster, a country town of Western Australia, on a Fly-in-fly-out basis from Perth on 5 days on, 3 days off, 4 days on, 2 days off roster. This position is also available as a Leinster Residential Position on the same roster.
Nickel West Leinster is located in the northern region of the Goldfields. The Leinster Village and Township offer a unique lifestyle with all the modern conveniences – an Olympic size swimming pool, health, and fitness centre, race-course, and even an 18 hole golf course.
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.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people, BHP requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in line with BHP’s Covid Policy and any relevant State health directives. If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people. 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.