Principal Indigenous Programs
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 Nickel West
Nickel West is a fully integrated mine-to-market business. Our culture is rich with technical know-how, highly efficient and focused on innovation. The business employs over 2500 people from five operations across Western Australia comprising of nickel underground and open-cut mines, concentrators, a smelter and a refinery. We also have plans to expand our operations with new mines in the Goldfields.
Nickel West has an exciting future ahead. We invite you to express your interest for Nickel West as we seek to energize our future’
About the Role
The Principal Indigenous Programs provides technical expertise in the management of the Asset strategy, framework and implementation required to protect and enhance BHP’s reputation, to manage risk and to contribute to social value creation. The role will entail:
- Maintaining strong relationships with Traditional Owner groups
- Managing BHP’s compliance to and governance of our agreements with our Traditional Owners
- Maintaining the relationship we have with the progressive Aboriginal Corporation and ensuring its continued prosperity
- Participating in activities across the state, including ethnobotanical excursions, ranger programs, and in-field engagements
- Plans, tracks the delivery of and manages a projects to generate value and drive the achievement of project outcomes
- Conducts presentations and facilitates workshops using storytelling to connect, influence and engage the audience
- Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals
- Implements opportunities and best practices to maximise value, add opportunities, mitigate risks, and improve ways of working with stakeholders
- Regularly engages with stakeholders to ensure the solution meets requirements, monitoring and escalating variances in project performance, schedule and cost as required.
About You
- Project Management experience within a similar environment and industry
- Presentation and facilitation skills and experience, with the ability to adapt and connect messages to the audience’s motivations and drivers
- Well-developed negotiation and influencing skills and experience to achieve a desirable outcome
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to gather, interpret and analyse information, to take an evidence based approach in decision making
- Has a strong desire and experience in creating a culture of inclusion and diversity
- Ability to establish effective plans and priority to meet business and customer needs
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].