Multiple Safety Roles (Specialist and Principal) | South Australia | Commencing January 2024

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 Roles

We currently have an exciting opportunity for safety professionals to join the new SA Copper Asset HSE team as a Principal Safety or Safety Specialist. Reporting to the Safety Superintendent, these roles provide coaching, technical expertise and advice on various aspects of safety and risk management to leaders across site.

In the Safety Specialist role, you will:

• Analyse safety data and information sources to identify emerging safety trends and recommend safety improvement initiatives.
• Proactively reach out to site personnel to coach individuals in site safety systems
• Actively attend various safety routines across site
• Conduct training sessions across various safety systems.
• Establish and lead an investigation quality working group to maintain capability of investigation facilitators.
• Monitor a Safety email inbox and respond to support operational needs.
• Lead a safety field leadership improvement program and promote hazard awareness and identification.
• Support the sites Health and Safety Representative Process.

In the Safety Principal role, you will:

• Works in collaboration with risk business partners and site leadership to use the Risk Framework to effectively monitor risks and controls.
• Analyse safety data and information sources to identify emerging safety trends and recommend safety improvement initiatives.
• Conduct training sessions across various safety systems.
• Establish and lead an investigation quality working group to maintain capability of investigation facilitators.
• Analyses and provides advice on safety risk management activities (e.g. culture, risk assessments, controls)
• Develops and implements safety improvement strategies and practices
• Develops and implements cross-functional or cross-asset improvement initiatives based on industry best practice to enhance organisational capability and culture in responding to safety related risks.

About You

You will be a self-motivated professional with a solid record or accomplishment of achieving results through influence, coaching and mentoring.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Previous experience in a safety role.
• A tertiary qualification, or equivalent industry experience managing safety.
• Certificate IV in OHS.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence at multiple levels in an organisation.
• Coaching and mentoring skills with a genuine desire to help people, achieve outcomes and support continuous improvement.
• Experience with facilitating safety incident investigations.
• Sound data analytical skills.
• A current C class motor licence or equivalent Australian state motor vehicle licence.

Roster

We are seeking to fill roles within BHPs new and exciting South Australian Copper Asset at Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena.

FIFO rosters (7/7 or 5/2) will be available across all sites, as well as residential roles for Olympic Dam. Flexible work options will be considered.

These roles allow you to balance your work and other commitments, with the flexibility to change rosters as your life evolves. To find out more click here.

Locations

Roxby Downs is located about 560 kilometres north of Adelaide (about 1 hr flight to the Olympic Dam Airport). With a population of 4,500 Roxby Downs offer a community lifestyle with all the necessities you wish such as school, pool, art gallery, cinema, community library, community centre, sports club etc. To find out more about living in Roxby Downs click here, while detail about lifestyle in Roxby Down click here.

The Olympic Dam mine is a large poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia, 550 km NNW of Adelaide. It is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of uranium in the world

The Prominent Hill mine is a major copper, silver, and gold mine in northwest South Australia, 130 km south-east of Coober Pedy and 130km north-west of Olympic Dam.

The Carrapateena mine is a large copper mine under development in South Australia’s Far North region 100 km southeast of Olympic Dam and approximately 160km north of Port Augusta. Carrapateena represents one of the largest copper reserves in Australia.

While Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beachside lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants, and world-class wine regions just an hour away.  All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar make Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in.

What is on offer?  

• Permanent employment with BHP with all the benefits of full-time work.
• Competitive remuneration.
• Annual performance incentive and salary review.
• Generous share match scheme.
• Various leave options.
• Ongoing support for you and your family through our Employee Assistance Program.

To get a taste of what it’s like working at one of our sites, meet some of our Olympic Dam team, Click here  

Reference Number – 72096

• You may be requested to complete a video assessment as part of the initial recruitment process. Video assessment is not applicable for BHP Internal applicants.
• Application closes on 23 October 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. 

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].