Principal Asset Planning & Standards | Coal | Perth / Adelaide / Brisbane | Mon-Fri

About the MECoE

 BHP's Maintenance and Engineering Centre of Excellence (MECoE) are the coming together of a dedicated, innovative team focused on identifying, achieving, and maintaining the highest standards in maintenance for BHP globally. Your diversity of thought and experience will be embraced, and you will be empowered to make a real difference in our business.

You will utilise innovative approaches, tools, and technology to add real value to our teams – setting new standards to guide improvement activity, transforming services, and supporting our people. 

About the Role

The Principal Asset Planning & Standards is a key role, globally driving the synergies between multiple BHP operations, functions and Assets. This role will ensure that we have a common approach for managing our mining plant and equipment, and that selection aligns with our long-term plans.  

You will utilise innovative approaches, tools and technology to add real value to our teams – setting new standards to guide improvement activity, transforming services and supporting our people.

Reporting to the Manager of Asset Planning and Standards, this role will perform in-depth modelling and analysis and provide recommendations to manage mining plant and equipment. This team will provide a global view of equipment requirements and key requirements for the life of asset, relating to repurposing, re-deployment, purchase or retirement of capital equipment. This role will ensure that we deliver equipment and asset requirements to meet production demand and our future plans. Your accountabilities include:

• Develop and provide strategic leadership of the Asset Management System
• Drive synergies between multiple BHP operations and Assets, ensuring that we have a common framework approach for managing our plant, and that equipment selection aligns with our long-term plans. 
• Identify parameters to develop a comprehensive portfolio of signs and triggers that promote predictive and sustainable maintenance programs.
• Evaluate processes, identify criteria and development of a prioritised roll out plan to enable alignment of global Asset Management Program.
• Deployment of reviews, using the appropriate methodologies to assess and evaluate process to enable efficient equipment selection, performance and low-cost production across BHP.
• Develop, comprehensive models for assets, including the planning, acquiring, operating, maintaining, renewing and disposing of assets across BHP. 
• Determine the underlying cause of problems and evaluate multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex organisational or asset problems. 
• Sources information, plans and conducts analyses to support evidence-based decision making. 
• Set technical equipment specifications for globally governed equipment
• Applies an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance. 
• Engages the capabilities of the entire organisation. 
• Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.

About You

As part of a small team the success of the role will be underpinned through supporting diversity of thought and collaboration. Thus, we encourage individuals from all industries to apply. You will ideally possess:  

• Experience in a similar role in Asset Management or heavy industry coupled with a degree in Engineering or similar.
• Have an understanding of the practice of end-to-end Asset Management. Demonstrated experience in whole of life asset planning and capital expenditure processes including equipment lifecycle costing and supply or procurement of equipment.
• Practical experience in mining equipment, application, maintenance and engineering.
• You will have financial skills that translate into strong business acumen. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will present innovative ideas and be passionate about delivering extraordinary results.
• It is essential that you are a team player who promotes and supports workplace diversity.
• Proven track record of exceptional change management implementation skills across multiple locations and regions
• Ability to manage though influence at multiple organisational levels and interfaces.

Location

In this full-time permanent position, there is flexibility for you to be base at our corporate office in Perth, or Adelaide, or Brisbane and working on Monday-Friday roster while flexible work is also offered.

Reference Number – 59953

• This opportunity is currently only open to candidates with the right to work in Australia.
• We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.
• You may be requested to complete a video assessment as part of the initial recruitment process. Video assessment is only applied to external applicant.
• Application closes on Sunday, 16th October 2022. While Virtual Assessment closes on Tuesday, 18th October 2022 (not applicable for BHP Internal applicants). Please note late applications will not be accepted.