Principal Mining Systems

About BHP

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About the Role

Technology operations is a department within the Technology function whose purpose is to ensure the asset’s technology needs are being met. The Principal Mining Systems role is to be a voice of customer and represent their needs. 

This role can be either an Adelaide based role with site travel required on a Monday-Friday roster or Site based position on a 5/2/4/3 roster. 

The duties of the role include:

• Ensuring a strong commitment to Health & Safety
• Stakeholder management of OEM support and operational teams to support delivery against operational safety and productivity targets
• Provide governance and standardisation of mining systems technology
• Provide input into the design, installation, commissioning and validation of mining systems
• Being the service owner for mining related systems
• Leadership support for department Superintendents and the Manger to support technical development of the team and efficient close out of incidents and problem events
• Monitoring and improvement of key system Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) metrics and root cause analysis of failures is effectively completed
• Define, review and improve maintenance strategies
• Draft work instructions for the safe installation, inspection and maintenance of equipment
• Inspection and acceptance of new equipment installations from OEMs and projects
• Involvement, support and initiation of improvement initiatives.

About You

As the successful candidate you will possess the following: 

• Ability to collaborate, influence and work with site based operational teams
• Experience with mining systems (radio, fleet management, distraction management, tracking etc.)
• The management of incident, change, problem and request management
• Autonomous experience is advantageous
• Minimum of C class manual driver's licence

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.