Specialist Safety | Prominent Hill

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’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced safety professional to join the Prominent Hill HSSEM team as a Safety Specialist.

Reporting to the Safety Superintendent, you’ll play a key role in providing expert advice, coaching, and support to leaders across site, helping to drive a strong safety culture and continuous improvement.

This role is based at our Prominent Hill mine and offered on a 8:6 (Days only) FIFO roster from Adelaide or Port Augusta.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse safety data to identify trends and recommend improvement initiatives.
• Provide on-the-ground coaching to personnel on safety systems and practices.
• Participate in and support site safety routines and meetings.
• Deliver training on safety systems and processes.
• Facilitate and / or Lead investigation and learning activities.
• Manage the Safety inbox and respond to operational queries.
• Champion field leadership and hazard awareness programs.
• Support the Health and Safety Representative (HSR) process.

About You

You’re a proactive and self-driven safety professional with a passion for coaching and influencing positive change. You bring:

• Previous experience in a safety-focused role.
• A tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in safety management.
• Certificate IV in Occupational Health & Safety (OHS).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to coach, mentor, and influence at all levels.
• Experience in incident investigation facilitation.
• Solid data analysis skills.
• A current C-class (or equivalent) driver’s licence.

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. 

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal. 

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 inclusion@bhp.com.