Superintendent Engineering Geotechnical | Nickel West | Mt Keith & Cliffs | FIFO | 5/2/4/3
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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.
Due to the investment growth and strategic innovations now being realised, Nickel West has recently formed a new Asset Engineering team. This team will focus on embedding disciplined process and governance at a time of capital and workforce expansion and increased risk complexity.
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.
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About the Role
Reporting to the Manager Engineering Geotechnical, we are actively seeking the talents of a collaborative and engaged Professional to provide technical leadership and excellence to the Mt Keith open pit and Cliffs underground mine geotechnical teams.
In this pivotal leadership role, you will draw upon your excellent technical and stakeholder engagement skills to foster effective and mutually beneficial relationships with the key Operational Leaders across the two mines. Your experience working in an operational environment will be key to your success as you influence a positive, productive and collaborative team environment based on technical assessment and risk-based decision making.
In addition, this position will focus on the following:
- Supporting Material Risk Management as it applies to Geotechnical Risk exposure.
- Continuously improve internal processes within the site teams to enable productivity and cost efficiency.
- Lead, coach and foster a high performing and rewarding culture within the Geotechnical Engineering teams at each mine.
- Support the mine in compliance to plan with good routines, data analysis, insights, oversight and engagement in the planning processes.
This role is FIFO based into Mt Keith village / hub.
About You
To be successful in this role you will be degree qualified with excellent technical knowledge combined with outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Complimenting your technical expertise, you will be team oriented, and relationship focused, with a demonstrated track record in achieving results.
Your passion for risk management and continuous improvement will be evident in how you engage and influence others to drive effective business outcomes.
Your demonstrated ability to nurture cohesive, high performing teams who search for ways to innovate and add value will further contribute to your success in this role.
In addition, we are ideally looking for the following skills and experience:
- Demonstrated experience working within the Geotechnical field, particularly in large deep open pits and underground sub-level open stoping mines
- Highly engaged with the skills and desire to work collaboratively and deliver outcomes
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to turn complexity into simplicity in order to problem solve at the right level, and enable risk-based decision making
We are committed to supporting employment within Western Australia. To be considered for this role, you must currently reside in WA or be willing to relocate to WA for the duration of your employment. A relocation package will be provided for Interstate applicants.
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.
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.
Please note, this role is being advertised until 28th January 2023. All applicants will be advised of the status of their application as soon as possible after this date
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.
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