Head of Asset Integration - Nickel West

About the Role - Job Description

Reporting into the Asset President, Nickel West, the Head of Asset Integration plays a critical role in shaping the future of NiW and ensuring our ESG foundations are in place to maintain and enhance our credentials as a Premium Sustainable Nickel producer for current and future customers.  The Head of Asset Integration, Director on the Nickel West Board, is accountable for three primary areas within Nickel West:

• Leadership of the Asset’s Energy Management Group, with the aim of providing power to meet the Asset’s growth trajectory and enhancing the decarbonisation aspirations of Nickel West.
• Development and Portfolio Management of the “Pathway to Net Zero” plan, with the goal of ensuring Nickel West retains and enhances its position as one of the world’s most sustainable nickel producers.
• Providing the Technical Surface Asset interface with Major Projects, Business Development, Planning and Technical, Innovation Marketing, other BHP teams, and external Research Groups/Government Advisory bodies, to support the delivery of the business plans.

This is a global search with the role based in Perth, Western Australia.

About You - Skills and Qualifications

In this role, you will cultivate strong relationships through effective communication and consultation; shaping the culture across the Nickel West Asset Integration teams to ensure a safe, productive, sustainable, and disciplined approach to work focused on project delivery and continuous improvement.  The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate their ability to develop and work within team-centric delivery mechanisms holding to the highest values of integrity, care for others and psychological safe teams. 

You will be strategic thinker with the ability to focus and prioritize critical deliverables to provide clear direction, with many competing priorities concurrently.  The successful candidate will be sharp in making sound judgement, leveraging from relevant experience, including strong technical base, and working effectively within complexity.

We value diversity in thinking and your career to date will testify to your ability get the best from a diverse and inclusive team culture. You will be able to demonstrate strong business acumen, have an understanding of the key drivers of mineral processing.  Energetic and results-orientated, you work well under pressure bringing attention to detail and an ability to meet multiple and interdependent deadlines.

You are able to establish credibility through your strong technical ability, operational expertise, leadership and excellent communication skills.  You relate well with people with an engaging style allowing you to communicate enthusiastically and build strong working relationships with an acute focus on safety.

Requirements

Minimum requirements that candidates will bring are:

• Chemical Engineer, Electrical or Metallurgist background (highly regarded) – with the commercial savvy and ability to influence to enhance the productivity, ESG & Commercial positioning of the Nickel West Asset
• Experience in similar resource processing, asset operations, or adjacent experience in extractives/natural resources
• Proven experience of building and leading an inclusive and high performing culture and teams
• Demonstrated confidence in Safety Leadership and holding yourself and others accountable
• The ability to develop strategy, and align stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive performance through operating discipline to achieve great results
• Experience in influencing in all directions through working with peers, internal functions, regulatory authorities, and third party or external stakeholders

Accountabilities

Accountabilities in this role are to:

• Deliver a safe system of work. Keep our people safe, injury free and healthy by enabling our Step-up Culture, Charter Values, and Code of Business Conduct. Be responsible and accountable for risk ownership to ensure that critical controls are managed, and material risk is maintained in a well-controlled state across the Asset Integration team.
• Create a culture in which engagement, inclusion and diversity thrive. Create a culture of care by being a visible safety leader, who engages, listens to feedback, shares context, develops and coaches your team
• Set visions, strategies, and plans whilst inspiring and challenging employees to continually improve and get better every day through a teaching mentality; helping employees find answers and solutions themselves. Help employees learn from their mistakes and celebrate achievements & successes
• Ensure cross-functional integration, build trustful relationships, influence and collaborate to deliver safe performance and improve productivity. Demonstrate openness and humility to seek help and learn from others
• Drive and promote cost efficiency and productivity improvements – identify and solve problems with a collaborative approach
• Seek excellence, drive consistent performance expectations, understand and apply processes, systems and standards. Establish routines and measures across the operation to deliver quality field leadership interventions
• Lead with business acumen and understand capital management; collaborate with other operations in the Asset to ensure capital is managed and prioritized for the optimal ROI