Manager Maintenance Services - Olympic Dam Surface Fixed Plant
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
This is an exceptional opportunity to join the senior leadership team at BHP Olympic Dam where you will provide foundational leadership and oversight of the Surface Maintenance Services department working across the fixed plant processing, smelting and refinery operations.
This role leads the maintenance service and support functions including reliability, major maintenance and projects, contracts, shutdown coordination, and water operations, enabling sustained high performance and continuous improvement, and works alongside the Maintenance Manager Execution.
This role is based at our Olympic Dam site and can be offered as FIFO ex-Adelaide or Residential, living in Roxby Downs township.
In this role you will:
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Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible and engaging safety leader, ensuring an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment (HSE) responsibility in all that you do
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Build and maintain collaborative relationships within the Maintenance function, site-based teams, asset teams and functional partners to meet operational goals
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Positively shape culture in alignment with the BHP Values
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Lead a diverse team of technical and operational maintenance professionals to deliver HSE, cost and volume performance as per our business plan commitments
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Identify, build and develop team capability through ongoing and regular coaching and development
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Encourage and promote continuous improvement in our work practices, driving performance using the BHP Operating System
About You
Your demonstrated experience in leading multidisciplinary teams in a complex operational environment will contribute to your success in this role.
Excellent communication and influencing skills will enable you to quickly establish effective and collaborative relationships while your focus on safety leadership, continuous improvement, inclusion, and risk management will ensure the existing culture of safety excellence and optimal operational delivery is maintained.
In addition, we are ideally looking for the following skills and experience:
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A background in Fixed Plant Asset maintenance and management within a similar operational environment
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An engineering and/or trade qualifications within a relevant engineering or maintenance discipline
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Foundational leadership experience and engagement of teams that support high quality and engaged delivery
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Experience implementing continuous improvement strategies with financial and commercial acumen
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The ability to engage and find positive outcomes with internal and external stakeholders
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Experience and knowledge working across a broad range of disciplines including HSE, Commercial, Contract Management, Project Management and Operations
How to Apply
Please apply before 5 October 2025
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.
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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.