Mining Engineer - NiW - FIFO or Residential
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
We have a strong focus on finding individuals with the right values, leadership capability, and communication skills. Reporting to the Production Engineering Superintendent, this opportunity will involve working on a variety of tasks to support production and planning to ensure that efficiency and quality targets are met in a safe and timely manner.
This position is a site-based role on a 7:7 FIFO roster from Perth or residential at Leinster with responsibilities for:
- Analysing and improving short-term planning to minimise lost opportunities
- Work closely with the draw control officer to generate the short term production plan and communication of priorities
- Develop and optimize Mine Integration Plans for complex mining areas and or/high interaction mining areas, including the highlight of risk analysis (controls and mitigations), and opportunities
- Assist on drill and blast designs
- Assist on the improvement of ventilation system designs
- Overseeing the implementation and ongoing governance of key standard operating procedures
- Developing and maintaining collaborative working relations with all stakeholders
- Driving our safety culture through quality field leadership
Location
Nickel West Leinster is located 375 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The operation sources nickel ore from the Perseverance Underground Mine and Cliffs Underground Mine before crushing and processing to produce a concentrate. The Leinster Village and Township offer a unique lifestyle with all the modern conveniences – an Olympic size swimming pool, health and fitness centre, race-course and even an 18 hole golf course.
About You
At Leinster, our Underground Mining Team are exposed to two different caving methods, Sub-Level Caving and Block Caving. With upcoming developments planned, we are looking for someone with operational and technical experience in mining and production with the motivation to be exposed to drill and blast, Ventilation, and production engineering roles. You will have access to technology that will enable you to work flexibly, which is key to BHP’s success in addressing the requirements of a diverse workforce. Competitive salaries and 12% superannuation along with a range of company benefits are available.
Required Skills:
- A tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering (or related discipline)
Desirable Skills:
- Experience in Project Management or Mine Planning,
- Mine planning software skills (Deswik), Ventsim
- Drill and Blast experience is preferred but non-essential.
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.