Superintendent Planning & Asset Health | MECoE | Brisbane

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 MECoE

BHP's Maintenance and Engineering Centre of Excellence (MECoE) are the coming together of a dedicated, innovative team focused on identifying, achieving, and maintaining the highest standards in maintenance for BHP globally. Your diversity of thought and experience will be embraced, and you will be empowered to make a real difference in our business.

You will utilise innovative approaches, tools, and technology to add real value to our teams – setting new standards to guide improvement activity, transforming services, and supporting our people.

About the Role

We are actively seeking the talents of a delivery focused leader to join our team in the capacity of Superintendent Planning & Scheduling. The Superintendent Planning & Asset Health leads a team that delivers optimised maintenance schedules enabling safe execution in accordance with the maintenance strategy, asset health, operational plan and budget to ensure downtime, waste and cost are minimised and resource utilisation maximised.

Reporting to the Manager Planning & Asset Health - Coal, this is a critical role with a key focus on developing and leading a high-performance team and integrating closely with Operations and business functions to ensure the ongoing safe & efficient maintenance and operation of our plant and equipment.

This role presents an excellent opportunity for an experienced Professional to draw upon both their maintenance and leadership capabilities, nurture collaborative business partnerships and drive key business outcomes.

In this challenging and highly visible leadership role, you will:  

• Ensure conformance with the BHP Billiton Charter, the BHP Billiton Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations.
• Effectively lead and develop a team of diverse maintenance professionals, facilitating a strong culture of teamwork, trust & high performance, and where respectful behaviours are demonstrated at all times.
• Develop and maintain trusting and collaborative relationships with Operational and Functional stakeholders to foster strong communication, regular feedback and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance to the BHP Planning & Scheduling process and frameworks including performance reporting on key metrics.
• Drive optimisation of Planning & Scheduling through the Work Management process to reduce waste and increase value adding work.
• Lead the identification and management of schedule risks, providing ongoing communications to relevant stakeholders and solution identification including prioritisation to best support Operational requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes, systems, and technology.
• Challenge thinking and act as a true conduit for change and innovation within a complex business environment.
• Foster a safe to speak up environment to team members to work effectively with customers to achieve the best business outcomes.

About You

To be successful in this role you will be a collaborative and impactful leader with outstanding communication and stakeholder engagement skills. You are team oriented, and results focused with a demonstrated track record in coaching and influencing others to drive effective business outcomes.

In addition, we are ideally looking for the following skills and experience:  

• Tertiary or trade qualifications in relevant maintenance field(s) or engineering discipline(s), or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience in Asset Management, maintenance execution, maintenance planning & reliability or production processes, with strong technical aptitude and maintenance process expertise.
• Experience in leading a high performing, diverse team to deliver exceptional safety and operational results.
• Strong leadership, communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills with an ability to influence to achieve optimal outcomes for the business within a matrix organisation.
• Excellent critical and strategic thinking, situation analysis, decision making and problem solving skills.
• Passionate about continuous improvement and striving for excellence with an outward mindset.
• Demonstrated experience delivering successful outcomes within a complex environment.
• Demonstrated success influencing and managing strategic change initiatives.
• A ‘relationship’ leader with the ability to build open and transparent business partnerships with multiple stakeholders.
• The ability to influence with credibility.

Location and Roster

This role is Brisbane base, and you will be working on Monday-Friday roster. The role requires site travel. Flexible work arrangement is also offered.

Application close on Wednesday, 5 Jun 2024.

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. 

Please note as part of this recruitment process the successful applicant will need to conduct a Queensland legislated coal mine workers’ health assessment.

From 1 April 2023, ResHealth will be mandatory for the completion of coal mine workers’ health assessments, allowing you to submit, monitor and review the progress of your health assessment in a secure online environment.

For more information please go to the ResHealth website.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in above 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 [email protected].