Principal Plant Processing & Labour | Adelaide
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 the Role
Reporting to the Lead for Fixed Plant Processing & Maintenance, the Principal Plant Processing and Labour Role is responsible for the procurement and contract support for our key Maintenance, Pumps, and Parts contracts across all our Copper South Australia Sites. The role will also be responsible for delivering improvement initiatives and driving best practice contract management to deliver strong commercial and operational performance. The role is based in our BHP office in Adelaide - relocation can be provided for successful candidate.
Core Accountabilities:
- Optimizes risk and reward based on an understanding that value drives and underpins all processes, decisions, strategies and plans within BHP to maximize value and deliver the best bottom-line for the organization
- Obtains the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership for goods and services, value, and quality using market research, supplier evaluation, and fact-based negotiation to meet business objectives
- Builds and manages strategic supplier relationships that target realization of value over and above contract value through innovation, risk sharing, R&D and active commercial partnerships
- Applies an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance efficiency, drive optimization, and maximize value
- Develops value chain strategies and customizes these for a category to identify, structure and prioritize opportunities and make educated risk trade-offs across categories and regions over medium-term time horizon that are then executed in the sourcing cycle
- Applies an understanding of other countries' political, historical, and cultural context to build partnerships, market expertise and achieve business outcomes within an international context
- Applies intelligence on industry trends and market dynamics to drive enhanced decision making and planning
- Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals
- Mitigates people, environmental and community risks across the value chain, in alignment with sustainability and public policy
- Engages the capabilities of the entire organization
- Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste
- Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Strong commercial acumen and contract management skills, with the ability to support the development and implementation of complex, regional and / or global categories and sourcing strategies
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement, with the ability to manage and influence stakeholders across multiple geographical regions
- Identify risks and appropriate commercial control options
- Ability to think laterally to independently resolve issues and influence change
- Role models an ability to thrive in ambiguous environments
- Exercises sound judgement to listen; ask the right questions; validate assumptions and understand stakeholder requirements
- Skilled in conflict management & facilitation
- Approaching work with a strategic mind-set including the ability to identify new opportunities and drive them to implementation
- Experience in a heavy industry or resources industry
- SAP exposure/experience will be nice to have
Applications close 30th November
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].