Lead Mining Engineer | Goonyella Mine | BMA

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 here

About the Site

Come join the largest autonomous fleet on any coal mine site in the world. Goonyella is one of five metallurgical coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin Portfolio for BHP. The Goonyella mine is an open pit coal mine located near Moranbah in Queensland's Bowen Basin on the traditional lands of the Barada Barna people.

Goonyella employees have the option of living are residentially with accommodation arrangements in Moranbah or camp facilities for our DIDO/FIFO employees.

About the Role

Reporting to the Mine Planning Superintendent, as the Lead Mining Engineer, you will be responsible for coaching and moulding your team to providing clear direction to the execution teams through mine designs and schedules for the 0 to 12 week time frame. This is role is offered on a 4/3 work pattern with FIFO/DIDO or residential living arrangement to suit your lifestyle. The development opportunities available through a large organisation like BHP are second to none in the mining industry with structured development plans in place for all team members. At BMA we pride ourselves on culture and can expect to be supported through a genuine culture of care by your peers and leadership. It is essential that the successful candidate can demonstrate that they are a team player and can align themselves to our teams purpose of "Better planning Better Performance". In this role you will:

• Use your leadership skills to coach and mould mining engineers;
• Communicate the designs to Production Coordinators and Operations;
• Identify and implement Production Planning improvement initiatives;
• Utilise tools in mine planning to ensure safe operations;
• Build cross-functional relationship with the Operational sub-functions and interact extensively with the Planning sub-functions.

About You

As the successful candidate, you will have a tertiary education background in Mining Engineering (or Civil) with previous experience working at an operations level with 5-10 years of experience working in mine planning teams. As well as your strong communication and interpersonal skills, you will have demonstrated ability to build relationships across departments and able to communicate at all levels. A strong working knowledge of design tools (Deswik/Vulcan), SPRY, Microsoft Office, Xact software packages are desirable. You will also be a performance and achievement oriented professional, who is motivated by exceeding expectations and providing excellent results.  

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.

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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 [email protected].