Manager Improvement | Olympic Dam | Roxby Downs | Resi/FIFO | Mon-Fri
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 Olympic Dam - Our Operations
Join Olympic Dam - a safe, reliable, globally competitive business delivered by our people. We care that everyone goes home safely to do the things they love. Leadership is key to driving positive workplace culture, and this drives performance. All incidents are preventable and everyone has a role to play.
Olympic Dam is one of the world’s largest underground mines and complex minerals processing operations, producing Copper, Uranium, Gold, and Silver end products on site. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well-equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping, and cultural facilities.
About the Role
The main purpose of this role is to provides leadership to a team or teams focussed on identifying, scoping and delivering ongoing business improvement opportunities. Translates strategy into operational plans for the department.
As the Manager Improvement team, you will ensure the strong and collaborative partnership with the surface execution teams and Olympic Dams General Manager’s leadership team (SLT) adhere to the Operating Standards in applying BHP Operating Systems, tools and methods across Olympic Dam Surface Operations. You will continue to drive change at the site to sustain our new ways of working. Deliver site wide improvement opportunities while coaching and developing team capability towards becoming the site continuous improvement experts that are focused on the generation, measurement and support of frontline enabled improvement. Reporting to General Manager Surface Execution, your accountability will include:
- Makes evidence based and strategic decisions in alignment with longer term business objectives.
- Defines value drivers and determines the boundaries of an opportunity to determine if it is worth further investment.
- Sources information, plans and conducts analyses to support evidence-based decision making.
- Identifies, implements and evaluates the success of continuous improvement activities/initiatives to improve the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of BHP systems and processes.
- Develops and communicates quantifiable business cases to other parts of the business to create buy in.
- Applies an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.
- Engages the capabilities of the entire organisation.
- Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
- Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs.
About You
As a successful candidate you will possess the following:
- Demonstrated experience in leading and coaching at an operational level.
- Demonstrated experienced at coaching and mentoring multidisciplinary continuous improvement teams who will be influencing, negotiating and leading change within the operation.
- Strong experience in implementing or building content for continuous improvement tools and implementing break through style/site wide based initiatives.
- Good understanding of the theory of constraints, LEAN principals, value stream mapping, and leading in a matrix environment will see you succeed in this role.
- Strategic and analytical thinker, you will demonstrate strong business acumen and be able to get to the root cause of problems using formal methodologies.
- You will also be a performance and achievement oriented professional, who is motivated by exceeding expectations and able to use your relationship building and influencing skills in order to hold develop key relationships and drive outcomes.
Location
A role at Olympic Dam allows you to balance your work and family commitments, with the flexibility to change these as your life evolves. To find out more click here.
Roxby Downs is located about 560 kilometers north of Adelaide and about 1 hr flights from Olympic Dam Airport. Estimate population of 4,500 this town offer a community lifestyle with all the necessities you wish such as school, pool, art gallery, cinema, community library, community center, sports club etc. To find out more about living in Roxby Downs click here, while detail about lifestyle in Roxby Down clicks here.
While Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beachside lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants, and world-class wine regions just an hour away. All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar make Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in.
To find out more about working with Olympic Dam and to meet some of our team, Clickhere
Reference Number – 59639
- This opportunity is currently only open to candidates with the right to work in Australia.
- We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.
- You may be requested to complete a video assessment as part of the initial recruitment process. Video assessment is only applied to external applicant.
- Application closes on Friday, 14th October 2022. While Virtual Assessment closes on Sunday, 16th October 2022 (not applicable for BHP Internal applicants). Please note late applications will not be accepted.
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.