Manager Technical Services (12 Month Secondment / Fixed Term) | Olympic Dam
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.
Our Operation
One of Australia’s largest mines and a complex minerals processing operation, Olympic Dam, is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. 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. Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beach-side lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants and world class wine regions just an hour away. All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar makes Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in.
About the Role
The Technical Services Manager leads a high performing team that provides broad-ranging subject matter expertise and strategies to support customer safety, stability, project return on investment, and improvement in risk profile over the medium/long term. The role reports into the General Manager Surface Planning & Development, and is a member of the Surface Leadership Team. You will lead 7 direct reports and a team of ~50 employees and contractors, and effectively engage with a diverse range of internal, external, regulatory and executive stakeholders.
This is an ideal secondment opportunity to continue your leadership development in a technical role in an operational environment. This secondment can be offered as 5/2,4/3 FIFO from Adelaide to Olympic Dam or residential at Roxby Downs. Relocation can be supported.
In this role you will:
- Focus on visible safety leadership and foster a high-performing, high-engagement Technical Services team culture
- Drive programs of work that support Safety, Sustainability and Improvement at Olympic Dam
- Be accountable for the delivery and strategy of the following teams: Process Safety; Fixed Plant Integrity; Water Production Support; Water Technical; Tailings Technical; and Project Integration (Refinery)
- Continue to collaborate and business partner to enhance the technical knowledge and capability of the wider asset team
- Own risk as it applies to Tailings Integrity, Fixed Plant Integrity and Supply of Water, ensuring excellence in material risk management processes
- Provide trusted ownership/technical support for key regulatory and executive relationships, including delivery of the MHF Safety Case; Tailings Accountable Executive; and others
- Lead Elements for the Integrated Management Systems Standards for Operational Risk; Safe Operation of Plant & Equipment; Operational Readiness & Process Start-up
About You
- Demonstrated leadership in Safety and Our Values, and holding others accountable to these
- Tertiary qualified Engineer with experience in Risk Management preferred
- Experience working simultaneously across multiple fronts and leading cross-discipline teams
- Clear written and verbal communication, with a focus on simplifying complex technical concepts, and effectively tailoring messaging to operational, technical or executive audiences
- Strong front-line customer focus to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes
- Ability to identify, navigate, and influence operations and functions stakeholders across a large, global matrixed organization. Seasoned in interactions with external stakeholders
- Desire to coach and mentor team members
- Established financial management and continuous improvement capabilities
- Proven judgement and decision-making skills and an appreciation of business objectives
How to apply
Please apply online before 20 January 2023
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.