Production Engineer - Copper SA

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 Roles

With each of our sites offering a unique environment ultimately you will support out underground operations where you will provide specialist advice and execute analysis and benchmarking of Underground Production’s end-to-end performance. You will identify and implement a portfolio of improvement initiatives that enable excellence and support business priorities for continuous improvement in Copper SA.

These roles are critical in assisting the production team in day-to-day operations and play a pivotal role in finding sustainable solutions through problem solving and identifying improvement opportunities through data analysis or in-field observations.

We currently have opportunities at our three Copper SA sites – Carrapateena, Prominent Hill and Olympic Dam.

For all sites we offer 8 days on  / 6 days off FIFO roster from Adelaide.  Olympic Dam also offers the option to reside residentially in the township of Roxby Downs or DIDO from regional SA. 

As a Production Engineer at BHP Copper SA you will:

• Engage with underground crews and their leaders to ensure that new ideas are developed and practically implemented, and to build cross-team relationships
• Design and review drilling, blasting and production plans
• Compile reports & provide expertise to other teams in analysis of production performance indicators and metrics
• Analyse and determine equipment capability assumptions
• Identify functional capability gaps and recommend improvement opportunities to department leadership
• Prepare inputs to form the production budget and produce operating standards, procedures and work instructions
• Undertake QA/QC monitoring for production activities
• Undertake stope reconciliations/abandonments upon completion

About You

• Degree qualified in Mining, Civil or Geotechnical Engineering (or a discipline aligning with this role)
• Experience working in an underground, hard rock, metalliferous mine environment
• Underground practical experience complete including a thorough understanding of the underground production cycle
• Proven experience in drill and blast design in sub-level open stoping preferred
• Previous experience in scheduling preferred but not essential.
• Demonstrated ability to be motivated and self-directed to achieve project outcomes.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain strong relationships.
• Previous experience to actively promote safe production and processes
• Well-developed Microsoft Office and Deswik suite software experience

How to Apply

Please apply before 10 October 2025

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 inclusion@bhp.com.