Manager Community Infrastructure
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
The Manager for Community Infrastructure is responsible and accountable for operational management, leadership and service delivery associated with the provision of residential housing and other community infrastructure for the WA Iron Ore (WAIO) business at Port Hedland & Newman. As part of the Non-Process Infrastructure leadership team the role oversees the operations and maintenance of more than 2000 houses in the regions along with a diverse portfolio of other infrastructure including an iconic regional hotel, large shopping centre, family daycare facilities, small business facilities and other community assets. The role is unique in that it deals with a huge range of stakeholders across the business and wider community, including leadership and frontline teams within our Port, Rail and Mines teams, local and traditional owner businesses, community organisations, as well as commercial business partners and regulators. The role is offered as FIFO or FIFO Flex from Perth. Responsibilities include • Provide leadership and an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility, customer service, sustainable development • Ownership and continued refinement of the Housing Strategy and customer Memorandum of Understanding to ensure that department activity and supporting funding delivers on long-term business needs across multiple stakeholder groups • Ensure high performance execution of the housing strategy, including allocation, operations, maintenance, asset lifecycle management, refurbishment and minor capital projects. • Operational management of a large contractor workforce conducting maintenance across the portfolio • Ensure compliance with relevant statutory obligations and Australian standards, including adherence to the residential tenancies act • Working with internal and external customers to identify and deliver business critical community infrastructure, such as provision of family daycare facilities or supporting infrastructure for small and local businesses • Input to infrastructure design, development, and operational readiness for new and renewed assets • Contribute to delivery of and manage ongoing Opex and Capex budgets for defined area of responsibility (including forecasts).
About You
You bring your degree qualification and/or related experience in relevant fields eg infrastructure, maintenance, services or construction coupled with your strong sense of commerciality and contract management ability to this role in order to support delivery of critical regional infrastructure to support the BHP business. Your customer focus coupled with commerciality and creativity helps you thrive in an environment where the need to create win-win relationships is high, and you can work with all levels of the organisation. Your significant understanding of maintenance, facilities and asset management, construction or real estate and demonstrated experience managing and leading a significant portfolio of geographically dispersed support and/infrastructure services assets ideally within mining or related industry will be highly regarded. Our Purpose is to bring people and resources together to build a better world. If you are looking for a unique opportunity to make a real impact on people and to live up to BHP’s purpose while driving collaborative and creative solutions, then this role is for you.
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.