Senior Engineer - Fixed Plant Maintenance Reliability | Olympic Dam | FIFO or Residential
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
Working in our Fixed Plant Reliability team, you will identify and manage strategic improvements to the productivity of the Mine Fixed Plant materials handling system using structured tools such as bottle-neck analyses and value driver trees. You will manage the production forecasting for the materials handling system, providing guidance to Mine Planning team for integration into the three-month rolling plan, two-year budget, and five-year planning cycles. As you challenge existing operating processes and lead change, you will provide coaching to team members on best practice data capturing and identify areas of improvements to the data capturing methods. Establishing and maintaining relationships with the maintenance and production teams will be critical to ensure success in this role.
Please note this position is based at Olympic Dam, operating on a 5/2 residential, or 5/2/4/3 FIFO (from Adelaide) roster. BHP will support relocation if required.
In this role you will:
- Provide forecast inputs to Mine Planning for the three-month rolling plan, two-year budget, and five-year planning cycles.
- Conduct bottleneck analyses and identify system improvements to maximise equipment productivity, providing guidance to the reliability teams on priority constraints.
- Coach team members on best practice data capturing to ensure quality
- Coach team members on identifying and executing improvement projects
- Conduct investigations on issues affecting productivity of equipment
- Build business cases for capital improvement works
- Analyse performance metrics and benchmarks performance across the function in other BHP businesses
About You
- Tertiary qualifications in engineering
- Experience in production forecasting
- Experience in a mining/manufacturing environment
- Experience in control systems/PLC coding
- Experience working with data models/historians including data quality management
- Experience with statistical analysis preferred
- Exposure to SAP advantageous
- Ability to define and manage projects from conception to completion
- Ability to manage and lead change
- Ability to influence, engage with, and communicate effectively across multiple levels, business units and functional areas
- Ability to develop credibility across multiple levels and stakeholder groups
- Inclusive team player that is proactive, self-driven, and accountable
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.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people, BHP requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in line with BHP’s Covid Policy and any relevant State health directives. If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce.
Supporting 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.