HSS Principal Integration
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 the Role
We are currently seeking a highly motivated and experienced Principal – Health, Safety & Security (HSS) Integration to join our Minerals Australia Projects HSS team, supporting Copper South Australia (CuSA) Major Projects.
Reporting to the Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) Manager, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the CuSA MP Program, Mine Concentrator Growth (MCG) and Carrapateena Expansion Stage 2 (CXPS2) project teams in Adelaide. This high-profile position requires strategic thinking that translates into effective study planning, driving the delivery of HSS tactical and strategic improvement initiatives.
You will be instrumental in building capability and capacity by developing, delivering, coaching, and aligning with project study teams, delivery partners, and stakeholders. This will be a full-time role with a 5/2 roster, and flexible working arrangements will be considered.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage the projects leadership, projects owners team and supporting functions to ensure effective health and safety management are established and maintained throughout the life cycle of the projects.
- Provide HSS leadership across CuSA Major Projects, MCG and CXPS2 supporting both Owners Team and EPCM partner.
- Lead the development and delivery of portfolio wide HSS strategies, initiatives and project deliverables, with extensive stakeholder engagement.
- Engage on HSS related commercial and technical querier related to the portfolio.
- Support the deployment of health and safety strategies embedding core safety processes, including coaching and monitoring with visible field leadership.
- Support the projects HSS Strategy implementation across the portfolio and other improvement initiatives.
- Analyse HSS data to support benchmarking, develop key performance metrics, and generate actionable insights.
- Adhere to and consistently apply safety standards and procedures to ensure safe and effective daily operations.
- Supporting the consistent application of BOS practices to enable safe and effective operational excellence
About You
- As the successful applicant you will be able to demonstrate the following:
- Proven ability to lead by example and coach others in safety leadership.
- Proficient in being able to contextualise challenges and communicate in a concise and influential way.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and understand customers.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement and confident in making informed decisions.
- Experience in a mining or projects environment, studies and delivery of different contract and execution models.
- In-depth knowledge of South Australian Workplace Health and Safety legislation in mining and/or construction environments.
- Experience in leadership and translating strategic priorities into tactical plans.
- Tertiary qualification in Health, Occupational Hygiene, Safety, Science, Risk Management, Engineering or a related discipline.
Keen to apply? Application are open until Friday 21st August 2026.
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 email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. 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.
At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.