Senior Production Planning Engineers | Mt. Keith | FIFO |
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 northern Goldfields and a large nickel sulphate plant in Kwinana to capitalise on growing demand in the battery materials sector. As the world's largest producer of nickel briquettes and nickel powder, Nickel West is leading the new-energy revolution in Western Australia.
We are looking for amazing people with a culture of care and accountability to find innovative ways to unlock exceptional performance.
Nickel West has an exciting future ahead. We invite you to join us at Nickel West as we seek to energize our future.
About the Role
The Nickel West’s Planning & Technical team is accountable for all the Resource Engineering related disciplines of the Nickel West value chain, including Geoscience, Mine Planning, Geotechnical Engineering, Water & Closure Planning and Studies.
Reporting to the Production Planning Superintendent, the Senior Engineer Production Planning plays an integral role in leading the team of engineers responsible for delivering mine plans and mine designs within the 1-Month to 2-Years horizon (inclusive of yearly Budget) for open-cut mines, ensuring alignment with the strategic plans.
In this pivotal leadership role, you will draw upon your excellent technical and stakeholder engagement skills to foster effective and mutually beneficial relationships with key Operational leaders and professionals across the business. Your experience managing teams in a complex multi-faceted environment will be key to your success as you influence a positive, productive, and collaborative team environment. You will work closely with the various mine operations teams to ensure production plans supplied are robust, practical, and executable. You will work collaboratively with your operational and short term planning peers to achieve great compliance to plan, as well as supporting with short term deviation management.
This is an excellent opportunity to secure a truly challenging role that will stretch your technical ability in a diverse and fully integrated mining business
- Nickel West value and respect employees, offering an inclusive and diverse environment
- Competitive salary on offer plus 12% superannuation and a range of company benefits
About You
You will be an enthusiastic, driven and output focused individual with highly developed written and verbal communication skills. You will have demonstrated success in building effective and collaborative Business partnerships with diverse stakeholder groups to delivery positive business outcomes.
In addition, the following skills and experience will be highly regarded:
- Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering (or related discipline coupled with the right experience)
- Experience in Open Cut mining operations
- Experience in mine planning/scheduling, combined with report and presentation skills essential
- Experience in mine design and scheduling software (Preferably Deswik)
Location
Nickel West Mt Keith is located 460 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie in the Northern Goldfields. Nickel West Mt Keith is a surface mining operation with multiple open pits and a concentrator plant. The operation is surrounded by pastoral stations, with the nearest townships being Leinster and Wiluna. There’s plenty to keep you entertained in the Mt Keith Village. Take the heat off the day and head to the pool – or join in any number of social activities. Employees commute to and from Perth on a fly in / fly out roster or form regional areas on a drive in / drive out roster.
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.
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.