Principal Improvement | Olympic Dam | Adelaide

About BHP

At BHP, we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. Our purpose is to bring people and resources together to build a better world. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer diverse, collaborative, and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to create a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and vision, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

We invest in people and capability to deliver high performance and our aspiration for a gender-balanced, inclusive and diverse workforce, we drive continuous improvement through respect for people’s differences, self-accountability, a hunger to learn and a commercial mindset. We know we are successful when we have stable and predictable operations with 70,000+ problem solvers across BHP improving the work they do and making decisions every day. Come be a part of this success through leading improvement.  

About the Role

The Asset improvement project team partners with Olympic dam to identify and deliver high value improvement projects. We are currently seeking a Principal – Improvement Projects will work across the different areas and functions of the Olympic dam, reporting to the Manager - Improvement Projects. The Principal – Improvement Projects for the Olympic Dam Asset will:

• Build a collaborative relationship with the site’s continuous improvement and operations teams.
• Identify improvement opportunities through site team’s insights and data analysis.
• Facilitate problem solving sessions and other workshops with various teams across the asset to develop practical and sustainable solutions to problems with an emphasis on reduction in waste
• Facilitate good project management practices to ensure value is delivered
• Regularly report outcomes to internal stakeholders.

The role location is based in Adelaide with regular (normally weekly) travel to the Olympic Dam.

About You

You will have several years’ experience working in a continuous improvement environment, together with a minimum of 5 years’ operational experience in mining, metals or similar manufacturing industry. You must be able to work collaboratively, managing stakeholders and understand the business and customers needs. For this role you will need good influencing skills and enable individuals to ask probing questions and challenge the status quo in an engaging manner. You need to be energetic and results-oriented, work well under pressure and are comfortable with ambiguity.

You must have a proven technical ability, perform and review data analysis, be an analytical thinker and have the ability to provide timely delivery of critical improvement projects. You must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.  

Requirements   Minimum requirements that this candidate will bring are: 

• Significant professional experience in a process driven industry (minimum 5 years) as well as working in Continuous improvement, performance reporting or operations.
• Demonstrated experience in delivery of high value (>$2M) improvement projects that require analysis and problem solving to deliver the optimum solution. 
• Able to locate data within BHP systems and have the ability to manipulate the data, perform analysis and determine relationships within the data that can be used for improvement. 
• Be able to relate and influence stakeholders.
• Contribute to a high performing culture, and work with diverse teams across the asset and have the disciplines to deliver high performance outcomes.
• Continuous improvement and outcomes focused with an expertise utilising lean (BHP operating system) principles and techniques to deliver value.
• Experience in resources / mining / metals or similar type manufacturing industries.

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. 

BHP also requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people (from the 31st of January 2022 or earlier depending on relevant state health directives). If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this new requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce. For further information please see our website.

Support 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.