Manager Maintenance | BMA Caval Ridge

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

BMA is Australia’s largest producer and supplier of seaborne metallurgical coal and is owned 50:50 by BHP and Mitsubishi Development. BMA operates seven Bowen Basin mines (Goonyella Riverside, Broadmeadow, Peak Downs, Saraji and Caval Ridge) and owns and operates the Hay Point Coal Terminal near Mackay. 

BMA has an exciting career opportunity for a seasoned mining leader to join as the Maintenance Manager at BMA Caval Ridge and participate as a key member of the Leadership team. This high-profile role will see you motivate and lead your team to safely deliver and achieve maintenance reliability, strategy implementation, shutdown execution and planning, and compliance targets, as well as driving productivity improvements and cost reductions. As the Manager Maintenance you will provide leadership and direction to achieve cost and maintenance performance deliverables. You will be an integral member of the Site Leadership team, responsible for the delivery of team goals and strong support in various departments. This position will enable you to use your technical experience and leadership skills to coach and mentor your team, drive best practice and truly make a difference to site maintenance.

This role is a 4:3 roster with FIFO (from Brisbane or Cairns) or DIDO. Residential options are also available.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Providing input to the mine site objectives & exceptional focus delivering on budget commitments, driving performance & implementing such accordingly

• Driving the consistent expectations, understanding & application of Production processes to enable complianc

• Developing and managing effective external stakeholder engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders including regulatory authorities

• Delivering on all aspects of work management requirements for BMA Caval Ridge mine, continuous adherence to the shutdown framework including the execution & delivery of multiple shutdowns per year

• Strong contract management discipline with exceptional contractor engagement skills and an ability to develop contractor teams

• Developing budgets and forecasts for the overall Maintenance department budget

• Encouraging and promoting continuous improvement by constantly looking for opportunities to improve work practices and procedures

• Continuing the focus on the maintenance department strategies holistically, including the implementation of the Total Equipment Strategy

About You

• Your relevant tertiary qualification and/or relevant experience in maintenance, as well as your strong interpersonal skills leading a diverse range of personnel within our business will see you succeed in this role. While your stakeholder engagement with people at all levels of the business and managing multiple priorities will be advantageous.

• You will enjoy stretching the team’s goals to create an enjoyable and positive environment for your team. You are a professional, who is motivated by seeing your team perform and exceed expectations while delivering positive results in safety, culture and productivity. As a leader you will use your deep foundational experience and skills to coach and mentor your team and others, drive best practice and truly make a difference to departmental performance.

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. 

Please note as part of this recruitment process the successful applicant will need to conduct a Queensland legislated coal mine workers’ health assessment.

From 1 April 2023, ResHealth will be mandatory for the completion of coal mine workers’ health assessments, allowing you to submit, monitor and review the progress of your health assessment in a secure online environment.

For more information please go to the ResHealth website.

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 [email protected].

This opportunity will close Midnight Monday 30th September 2024.