Manager Engineering | Brisbane
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
Reporting to the Projects Director, the Manager Engineering will provide leadership to a team focused on developing engineering strategies, standards and frameworks that ensure the engineering process and design is optimised and enables safe, efficient construction, commissioning and operation.
Key Accountabilities:
- Develops project engineering strategy, plans, standards, processes, and systems for capital projects to ensure optimal delivery.
- Accountable to the Project Director for engineering scope, schedule, and cost, ensuring integrated scope, cost, schedule, value, and risk requirements are met, including participation in costing and scheduling evaluations.
- Manages the availability of project and discipline engineering resources to deliver in line with plan.
- Approves the evaluation and selection of engineering third parties and leads their performance management.
- Leads engineering governance and assurance activities to ensure alignment with technical, functional, and business requirements.
- Manages all of the necessary information to comply with the master program, delivery of on-time engineering in line with the tender and bid process, generate on-time purchase orders of key supplies, all in order to ensure that the quantity of work estimated by engineering does not suffer large variations during execution.
- Collaborates with Commissioning and Construction to ensure that engineering is developed to be able to support commissioning and construction methodologies, strategies and systems.
- Collaborates with Discipline or Operations Engineering to create new technical and engineering standards where required for the delivery of the project scope of work.
- Embeds lessons learned and best practices into operations, driving continuous improvement, capital efficiency, and productivity.
- Identifies talent and capability and provides input to broader talent planning.
About You
- Engineering qualification (any discipline).
- Extensive experience delivering major capital projects (>$300M USD).
- Experience within mining environment (preferred), including exposure to conveyors, stockpiles, or similar infrastructure.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence internal and external partners, including consultants and contractors.
- Commercially and technically astute, with the ability to analyse data and deliver clear, concise reports and presentations.
- Proactive and solutions-focused, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Collaborative team contributor who operates with integrity and builds strong working relationships.
- Demonstrated leadership capability, with a passion for developing and mentoring others to drive high performance.
This role is Brisbane-based, with relocation support available.
Application are open until Mon, 6 July 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.