Manager Integrated Planning | West Musgrave | Perth

BHP and Oz Minerals

OZ Minerals is now proudly part of BHP, with the acquisition strengthening BHP’s portfolio in copper and nickel, helping to meet the worlds increasing demand for the critical minerals needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels, to supporting the energy transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.

In combining our two organisations we will be able to provide more options for growth, bringing new talent and innovation together to unlock these resources in a sustainable way, and deliver value to our shareholders and the communities in which we operate.

The Opportunity

West Musgrave will be one of the world’s largest, lowest cost, lowest emissions copper-nickel projects.   

You could be part of the team that helps to deliver this exciting mine, set within the Australian landscape. And we welcome anyone who’s seeking to make a real difference.

Our West Musgrave nickel-copper project is located on Ngaanyatjarra country, in the Musgrave Province of Central Western Australia, and includes the Nebo and Babel nickel-copper deposits and the Succoth copper deposit.

West Musgrave, which has a 26-year mine life, will be an owner-operator mining operation and in addition to being powered by ~80 per cent renewable energy, the Project scope includes a pathway to net zero Scope 1 emissions by 2038.

The Project will feature an Autonomous Haulage System and remote operations from day one and our workforce will be a flexible, technology enabled team supported by remote operations to improve safety outcomes and maximise opportunities for flexible working and diverse participation.

Our employee value proposition means our employees have flexible WFH arrangements and/or family friendly rosters where the main focus is on delivering digital tools and automation that will mean that a lot of roles traditionally on site, will be able to be done off site.

About the Role

Location: Open (with opportunity to work remotely from home) but with travel to Adelaide or Perth as required.

Roster: 5:2 Monday to Friday

Reporting to: General Manager, West Musgrave

Contract Type: Permanent

Pay & Benefits: We offer competitive Australian mining industry pay and benefits. We can talk about specifics later.

The Details

Reporting to the General Manager, you will lead the development and integration of specific operational methodologies to achieve enterprise-wide optimisation. Integrating systems, processes and behaviours you will ensure the West Musgrave architecture:

• fosters and encourages the right behaviours,
• supplies the context and awareness for insight-making,
• provide specialist advise through geotechnical and geology resources and
• enables people through decision-making processes that are adaptive to the changing environment and create best outcomes over time scales.

Through Operations Readiness phase, you will focus on defining the production and maintenance philosophies, the design of the workplace, structures, processes and associated technologies, and the approach to collaboration. Moving into Operations you will provide the leadership to embed the architecture work and improve the integration between planning horizons, across the value chain and supporting functions that enables plan adherence in a more predictable manner.

Key Responsibilities

The Manager – Integrated Planning role will focus on ensuring the West Musgrave Project is safely delivered on time and on budget. Specifically, this includes:

• Develop integrated plans across the entire value chain, for the operation to bring together mining, processing and maintenance activities and teams.
• Collaborate with the Operations Leadership team to develop the technologies, systems and architectures to deliver information and insights in real time so that people can respond in a controlled but rapid way to new information or events, with changes scenario planned across time and integrated systems, with accurate understanding of stakeholder and financial impacts.
• Build standardised planning, budgeting, and forecasting calendar, guidelines and process that also flex and scale to meet growth aspirations and integrate with BHP Nickel West.
• Shape and foster the culture, processes and systems that enable enterprise awareness for analysis, scenario planning, and optimal decision making using the value of diverse thinking in teams.  Foster the formation of an integrated planning community, with decisions integrated into quick and event-driven planning cycles across the tightly coupled value chain.
• Carry out reviews and optimisation studies to outline preferred strategic development options for the mine and surrounding mineralisation.
• Resource and Reserve Definition and Reporting, including establishing and implementing grade control, reconciliation and reporting procedures.
• Utilise the Mine Operating System (MOS) to prepare and deliver integrated site plans across the Life of Mine, Budget, Quarterly, 13 Week and Weekly planning horizons, with significant operational team input, involvement, and ownership.
• Maintain a good relationship with all stakeholders, including the indigenous community by being a good and supportive neighbour.
• Develop and support the Integrated Planning team members through their professional development and mentoring.

Applicant Requirements

This role requires a self-motivated, hands on and values-based individual with a desire to deliver best practice outcomes with skills, experience, and personal attributes including:

• Formal qualifications in Mining Engineering, Geology, Geotechnical or Metallurgy.
• Experiencewith mine to mill schedule optimisation from life of mine through to operational planning.
• Leadership of large multi-disciplined technical teams.
• Prior experience in leading, managing and influencing an Integrated Planning team.
• Experienced in delivering all aspects of an Integrated Planning Reporting Framework.
• Sufficient technical experience to understand risks and opportunities identified by technical disciplines, geology, geotech and mining tech services, to provide leadership and integration of insights into planning.
• Exposure across technical, operations, marketing and support functions to see the system broadly.

About Our Process

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.    At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and who can meet the responsibilities 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.    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].