Specialist Planning | Nickel West | Perth | Mon-Fri

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

This role (with the support of the Planning & Analytics team) will deep dive into issues and identify opportunities across the breadth of the Nickel West value chain. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of complex problem solving in a vertically integrated value chain.  They will seek to broadly engage across all sites, utilising a collaborative and process-driven approach to turn insight into action. 

This role will involve strong analytic capacity, coupled with the ability to engage a broad range of stakeholders to identify, quantify and understand constraints and opportunities throughout the Nickel West value chain, and enable the business to capitalise on them.  As part of this role, the following will be regular part of your routine:

• Confidently present ideas, results and recommendations to internal stakeholders, using your well-developed engagement skills to build consensus and alignment.
• Work collaboratively within the larger Integrated Operations team, and with stakeholders across the Nickel West business.
• Deliver data analysis to identify, support, and drive action on improvement opportunities across the Nickel West value chain.
• Validate inputs, contribute to, and analyse outputs of the 2-year monthly rolling plan and 5-Year Budget for Nickel West’s vertically integrated value chain.
• Work collaboratively to deliver process improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and standardisation in the planning cycle. 
• Utilises data and process driven approaches to generate standardised actionable responses across the value chain in response to complex problems.
• Conduct shutdown impact assessments, optimise shutdown sequencing across the value chain, and lead coordination of shutdown responses across the business.
• Work to sprint timelines in the monthly planning and reporting cycles, with opportunities outside of this to explore and progress scenario testing and improvement initiatives.

About You

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

• A positive proactive attitude towards problem solving
• Passion for challenging the status quo and a DNA for continuous improvement.
• Comfortable working on an ever changing environment and able to deal with certain level of ambiguity.
• Capacity to understand both throughput and quality constraints.
• An ability to work independently, understand complex systems, and distil key messages to influence stakeholders in the delivery of positive business outcomes.  

This role would suit geologists, engineers, or metallurgists (2-5 years’ experience), operator or trades person (with strong continuous improvement track record) who are looking to expand their knowledge of the broader value chain.

Experience in mine, ROM and/or process planning, and forecasting is desirable but not essential, as is exposure to integrated value chains.

The capacity to negotiate with a broad base of stakeholders and a willingness to dive in and learn will be highly valued.

Location

In this full-time permanent position, you will be based in Perth, Western Australia, in the multi award winning office tower - ‘City Square’. You will have stunning river views from your modern open plan office, state of the art facilities including virtual whiteboards and video conferencing facilities, 550 bicycle racks with ample lockers, showers and change room amenities and a large outdoor terrace with barbecues.

You will be working on a Monday-Friday roster while a Flexi work arrangement is also offered. There will be some site travel throughout to the Goldfields/Kalgoorlie/Kwinana as required to engage with stakeholders.

To find out more about working with Nickel West and to meet some of our team, clickhere

Reference Number – 60315

• This opportunity is currently only open to candidates with the right to work in Australia.
• We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.
• You may be requested to complete a video assessment as part of the initial recruitment process. Video assessment is only applied to external applicant.
• Application closes on Wednesday, 19th October 2022. While Virtual Assessment closes on Friday, 19th October 2022 (not applicable for BHP Internal applicants). Please note late applications will not be accepted.