Lead / Senior Process Safety Engineer | Olympic Dam or Adelaide
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 You
The following will be advantageous:
- Tertiary qualifications in Engineering or an aligned discipline
- Professional engineering experience (or an aligned discipline)
- Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team (preferred)
- Proven success in managing and delivering complex programs of work
- Exemplary verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to persuade and negotiate with peers and stakeholders from all levels of a company
- Process Safety Engineering expertise in the Chemical, Petroleum or Mining industries
- Experience working within a Major Hazard Facility and building relationships with the MHF Regulator
- Knowledge and experience in applying risk management techniques to support process safety risk identification, prevention and mitigation
- Ability to coordinate, review and challenge Process Hazard Analysis studies, Consequence Modelling, Quantitative Risk Analysis and Functional Safety activities.
- Solid analytical skills as well as ability to apply judgement based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situation
About the Role
Reporting to the Superintendent Process Safety, this role is part of BHP Olympic Dam’s Surface Planning and Development Team.
This role can be located in Roxby Downs, or be Adelaide based with regular travel to site.
You will be part of a team that provides technical input to manage the Major Hazard Facility (MHF) risk profile and partners with the operation to enable improved safety and production outcomes.
You will also:
- Support continuous improvement and embedment of a Process Safety facing culture within the operation, from front line to executive level
- Ensure Process Safety risks are identified, assessed and managed according to BHP’s Safety Our Requirements and other BHP systems and processes
- Contribute to the development and review of Process Safety Material Risks, Critical Control groups and Performance Standards
- Manage multiple concurrent Process Safety Programs of Work, including schedule development, tracking and reporting of program health to senior leadership, personnel management and strategic decision making
- Provide assurance of Process Safety Management at Olympic Dam through implementation of elements of the Safety Management System
- Facilitate risk assessments (e.g. HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, BowTie) for both capital projects and operational activities
- Contribute to the MHF Safety Case and building and maintaining relationships with the MHF Regulator, including the facilitation of Regulator performance reviews and audits
- Support Process Safety related standards, procedures and guidelines, including development and periodic reviews of these documents
- Support Process Safety incident investigations
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.