Integrated Operations | Specialist Scheduling - Nickel West
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 energise our future.
Location
Based in Perth, Western Australia, in the multi award winning office tower - ‘City Square’ you will have stunning river views from your modern open plan office, state of the art facilities including virtual whiteboards and video conferencing facilities, 550 bicycle racks with ample lockers, showers and change room amenities and a large outdoor terrace with barbecues.
About the Role
As Specialist Scheduling you will be responsible for developing and communicating short term schedule production plans to the business with a focus on aligning to yearly production targets. You will be accountable for co-ordinating the movement and processing of product from ore to metal through the NiW supply chain including developing strategies to recover from unplanned operational events. In addition, you will be able to lead new initiatives and projects that will deliver a step change in our team performance.
Reporting to the Superintendent Scheduling, you will play an integral role by:
- Maintaining an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development.
- Daily and short-term modelling of the value chain and schedule management, applying supply chain knowledge, buffer management and internal operating philosophies, to maximise supply chain performance
- Work closely with all sites to deliver optimal results and develop mitigating strategies to overcome value chain challenges.
- Ensure supply and demand is achieved through the development, publishing and communicating of short term logistics schedules, and through monitoring of daily operational performance against plan across the supply chain
- Ensure supply chain losses through unplanned events are minimised by developing and communicating appropriate supply chain recovery plans with key stakeholders.
- Facilitate daily production call with all sites and logistics to ensure plan alignment and enables flagging of issues that may impact the short term horizon.
- Ensures all relevant personnel stakeholders are aware of the detailed requirements and any changes during the shift through regular communication.
This position is offered as Monday to Friday, supporting weekend coverage when required, with the opportunity to explore flexible work arrangements.
About You
As the successful candidate you will possess the following:
- A positive proactive attitude towards problem solving.
- Sound computer literacy skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Knowledge or openness to learn power BIs tools is highly desirable.
- Passion for challenging the status quo and a DNA for continuous improvement.
- Good collaboration and interpersonal skills are required to influence stakeholders in the delivery of positive business outcomes.
- Have a background in mining, mineral processing, engineering, technology or similar discipline.
- Tertiary qualification in a related discipline desirable.
- Experience and knowledge of Nickel West supply chain is desirable but not mandatory.
- Comfortable working on an ever changing environment and able to deal with certain level of ambiguity.
What we can offer
We are a team that will drive operational excellence and lead change to achieve the most optimal business outcomes, in this role you will have access to:
- Developing strong commercial and business acumen
- Strong knowledge of scheduling, logistics and supply chain
- Access to outstanding technical and leadership knowledge
- Autonomy to lead change and implement improvements
- Strong guidance when required
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.