Specialist Safety | Mining Area C / South Flank
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
We are currently on the look-out for motivated, experienced, and highly capable Safety Specialist to join the BHP HSE team at our Mining Operations. This is a permanent position, working an 5:2/4:3 roster, in a FIFO role, BHP supports flexible working options. we encourage applications from women, gender-diverse, and Indigenous people to join our team.
The role is based at BHP’s Mining Area C & South Flank Operations in Western Australian. Located in the Pilbara region. The Safety Specialist role within the HSE Team provides leadership, coaching and strategic direction as a subject matter expert to key stakeholders across the Operations.
In this role you will:
- Support line management in their accountability for HSE risk assessments, event investigations, field leadership and compliance to relevant HSE requirements;
- Monitor the quality of HSE risk assessments, data, event investigation and field leadership.
- Develop and deliver Health and Safety content for upskilling for the operation including contractor personnel
- Facilitate the communication between workgroups to ensure consistency in systems, processes, procedures and goals.
- Support line leadership in building an understanding of, and compliance with, relevant HSE Our Requirements (GLD) and legal requirements
- Review and monitor contractor HSE performance and supporting the execution of project HSE Management Plans.
- Support the HSE Function with Material Risk management, WAIO wide Projects and Safety Standardisation.
About You
You will be a self-motivated professional with a solid record of accomplishment of achieving results through influence, coaching and mentoring. You will work hard, have fun and support the team to achieve our collective goals.
You will also have:
- A proven passion for safety and a culture of care;
- Tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in Health and Safety (Essential)
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence at multiple levels in safety;
- A minimum of three years experience in mining within a HSE capacity full time role (Essential)
- Coaching and mentoring skills with a genuine desire to help people, achieve solid outcomes and support continuous improvement;
- Ability to self-motivate, manage priorities, and consume data to effectivity deliver safety support.
- Strong attention to detail to support safety accountability for operational teams.
- Experience with Project Facilitation, with a team based approach and operational focus.
- Able to Facilitate Investigations through the ICAM (Or similar methods), Timeline 5 Why and Practical Problem-Solving methods.
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.
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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 [email protected].