Head of Performance & Improvement WAIO
BHP
About BHP
At BHP, we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. Our purpose is to bring people and resources together to build a better world. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse, collaborative, and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to create a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and vision, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
We invest in people and capability to deliver high performance and our aspiration for a gender-balanced, inclusive, and diverse workforce. We drive continuous improvement through respect for people’s differences, self-accountability, a hunger to learn and a commercial mindset. We know we are successful when we have stable and predictable operations with 70,000+ problem solvers across BHP improving the work they do and making better decisions every day. Come be a part of this success through this leadership role!
About the Role - Job Description
We are currently seeking to appoint a Head of Performance & Improvement – Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO). Reporting into the Vice President, Asset Performance & Improvement within the Technical Function, this leader is a member of the Asset Performance & Improvement Global Leadership Team and the WAIO Leadership Team. The role leads a team of 5 improvement professionals.
The Head of Performance & Improvement WAIO will:
- Support the development and update of the Asset Integrated Improvement Plan which identifies the key improvement priorities for WA Iron Ore
- Lead and support delivery of high value improvement initiatives across Iron Ore
- Support the development and delivery of improvement pipelines across Iron Ore to ensure targets are met
- Facilitate replication of improvement practices and initiatives across sites
A global search, the role can be located in Perth, Western Australia or across the BHP Operations in the Pilbara (with some travel to site required).
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About You - Skills & Qualifications
You will have experience leading and delivering high-impact, large scale improvement projects (+$50M EBITDA) in a mining or asset intensive context. You will be experienced at forming and leading multidisciplinary teams with the goal of achieving measurable and sustained value for our Assets. You will have demonstrated experience working within an innovative, best practice continuous improvement function.
You will bring a deep understanding of key business and mining industry performance drivers. A strategic and analytical thinker, you will be comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrate strong business acumen and be able to get to the root cause of problems. You will be highly effective at driving improvement outcomes through your strong technical ability, leadership and excellent communication skills.
You will be comfortable working in complex matrix work environments, and be able to navigate stakeholders in a global and dynamic organisation through your influencing, coaching and mentoring skills. An ability to constructively question ideas and build trusted relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders will be essential.
You will have proven experience as a leader of diverse, inclusive and highly performing teams. Energetic and results-orientated, you work well under pressure and are comfortable with ambiguity.
Requirements
Minimum requirements that this candidate will bring are:
- Tertiary qualification in Operations, Engineering, Mining, Business Improvement, or related field required
- Demonstrable experience in the delivery and realisation of large-scale and complex improvement/transformation projects
- Experience in managing senior relationships, ideally within organisations/divisions of similar scale & complexity
- Proven people leader, with a track record of building and leading a high performing culture, physically & psychologically safe, and diverse teams across numerous locations and disciplines to deliver performance outcomes
- Continuous improvement and outcomes focused with an expertise in designing and implementing solutions leveraging analytical skills
- Experience in the Resources/Mining or similar Asset-Intensive industry is essential
Accountabilities
Your core accountabilities will include:
- Drive high value improvement through working in partnership with Asset leaders to identify, plan and deliver the highest impact operational improvement projects. To achieve this, the role will oversee the formation and management of multidisciplinary teams with Asset and Functional team members and in doing so will leverage the full capabilities of BHP’s Technical Group
- Support the development and delivery of improvement initiative pipelines for the Asset so they are sufficient to achieve unit cost outcomes and other key metrics where improvement is required to meet or exceed Asset commitments. Part of this will be to facilitate replication of improvement practices and initiatives across BHP’s global operations
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.
BHP also requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people (from the 31st of January 2022 or earlier depending on relevant state health directives). If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this new requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce. For further information please see our website (LINK)
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to provide a work environment where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and 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. 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 unique BHP employee share program.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, citizenship, genetic information or other protected status under federal, state or local laws.
BHP is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability.