Specialist Improvement | Nickel West | Leinster | Resi / FIFO | Flexible Roster
BHP
About BHP
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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. A member of the BHP Group, Nickel West is undergoing an exciting business transformation to become a globally significant supplier of battery materials to the electric vehicle market. Nickel West will soon become the world’s largest producer of Nickel Sulphate, a key ingredient in lithium-ion batteries. As the world’s largest producer of nickel briquettes and nickel powder, Nickel West is leading the new-energy revolution in Western Australia.
Nickel West has an exciting future ahead. We invite you to join us at Nickel West as we seek to energise our future.
About the Role
Reporting to the Manager Processing, you will be passionate about transformation and improving the business. You will be highly adept at deriving insights from a range of different data sources, visualising and communicating these insights to guide leadership decision-making, resource prioritisation, and ultimately deliver high-value projects. This role is suited to an energetic, enthusiastic and self-motivated individual who is seeking an influential role within a leading organisation.
Additional key responsibilities will include:
- Demonstrating a clear focus and passion for Safety Leadership.
- Managing relationships with our customer and functional stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes and enhancing our communications both within the Leinster operations and across BHP.
- Provide coaching, mentoring and training of colleagues and leaders in continuous improvement mindset, methodology and tools.
- Supporting the BHP Operating System (BOS) deployment team, including coaching the concentrator teams during their routines and driving improvement at all levels.
- Be the site custodian of Wave and help the teams to navigate the system and update initiatives to track our cost saving and revenue initiatives on site.
- Support the organisation with identification, development and facilitating delivery of improvement projects that are linked to Key Value Drivers to meet business objectives using BHP’s Operating System and proven Project Management methodologies.
- Working closely with stakeholders across the Leinster Concentrator team and key functions to ensure that relevant business problems are defined and investigated, facilitating complex problem solving using a structured problem-solving approach defined, including setting the problem context, understanding the business requirements and success measures, and managing potential challenges.
- Aptitude for data analytics & identifying where constraints and or correlation analysis, modelling and performance benchmarking may be required to identify opportunities and bottlenecks.
- Supporting the development and implementation of our annual business planning cycle.
- Actively challenging our mindsets to create and allow breakthrough solutions.
About You
Your ‘fresh thinking’ mindset, skills in coaching, mentoring, problem solving and facilitation with the ability to challenge existing thinking will be key to your success in this role. Ideally, you are passionate, have high energy levels, the drive to continuously improve every day and may possess some or all of the following:
- 'Safety first' as an uncompromised core value.
- Prior experience in cost and productivity efficiency projects.
- Strong facilitation, presentation, communication and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical and synthesis skills.
- Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
- Prior experience in portfolio and project management.
- Demonstrated capability in project scoping, planning and execution using a disciplined approach to achieving project goals.
- Practical experience in mining, minerals processing and resource industries.
- Desirable to have tertiary qualifications within Business, Data Science, Computer Science, IT, Engineering or Mathematics, Lean Six Sigma or other Business Improvement qualifications.
Location
Nickel West Leinster is located 375 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The operation sources nickel ore from the Perseverance Underground Mine and Cliffs Underground Mine before crushing and processing to produce a concentrate. The Leinster Village and Township offer a unique lifestyle with all the modern conveniences and plenty to keep you entertained - take the heat off at the end of the day and head to the Olympic sized pool - or join in a regular social game of sports, there is a health and fitness center, other social activities including movie nights, a race-course and even an 18 hole golf course. Employees either commute to and from Perth on a fly in / fly out roster or live residentially within the township of Leinster, consisting of approximately 1000 residents.
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.