Superintendent Production | Operations Services | Nickel West | 8/6

About BHP

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About Operations Services

BHP Operations Services delivers industry leading mining services across BHP operations Australia-wide with specialist capabilities in load and haul, fixed plant maintenance and mobile maintenance. BHP Operations Services has a strong focus on people capability and culture. Our people are our greatest asset and are at the centre of everything that we do. We focus on high performance safety and productivity through our people. With world-class training that is unmatched in the industry and the opportunity to advance your career across locations and commodities, join the team and make your place in BHP.

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About the Role

BHP Operations Services Production team currently operates across various locations within Australia.

Operations Services Production is currently recruiting for a Superintendent Production to work with our team at Nickel West, Camelot Deployment in Leinster. Reporting to our Operations Services, Manager Production, working in a fast-paced open cut environment, this role allows the ability to apply your experience and leadership skills, and lead a small team across numerous areas such as production and drill & blast.

In this position you will be responsible for providing guidance and leadership to a team of supervisors in executing the mine plan whilst achieving safe and optimal outcomes for the production team. You will be actively involved in BOS routines to deliver effective outcomes and continuous improvement, field leadership activities and engaging with the site mastery specialist and training team to enable your team to reach their full potential. There is an expectation that you operate in a proactive manner, working closely with site stakeholders on a daily basis and ensure operational challenges are raised and mitigating actions are taken. In this role you will also manage compliance with operating standards, procedures, work instructions and define processes in order to achieve and optimise production outcomes while working closely with the site team.

These opportunities are well suited to someone who has people leadership capability and is looking to be part of a team which is shaping processes and contributing to meeting and exceeding targets, within a changing and 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 unique BHP employee share program.

In this role you will: 

• Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible safety leader by engaging, developing and coaching your team;
• Contribute to the preparation of the inputs to form the production plan and budget; 
• Endorse and lead the planning and execution as well as monitor the effectiveness of production planning and execution improvement initiatives for production, drill & blast and de-watering teams;
• Build cross-functional relationships with the Operational sub-functions to support the delivery of production;
• Have the opportunity to develop and structure production teams;
• Develop capacity to investigate reported events which fall below the Business risk threshold and as the Control Owner, ensure Critical Controls are in place and effectively managing risk. 

About You

As a strong leader within our production team, you will have extensive operations experience in similar roles across production and planning. Your exceptional communication and interpersonal skills are a must enabling you to build relationships across departments and to communicate with disciplines at all levels.

You will also ideally have:

• Unrestricted WA Quarry Manager certificate minimum requirement
• BHP Operating System experience or similar (desirable)
• Demonstrated ability managing multiple conflicting priorities and strong decision-making skills;
• Demonstrated experience in production planning, D&B and de-watering tasks (desirable)
• Collaborative relationship building and negotiation skills;
• Sound computer literacy with exposure to interpreting shift metrics to drive optimal production behaviors and make timely changes;
• Ability to support and grow a culture of diversity and personal development within the team;
• Demonstrated experience in risk and change management;
• Motivation as a performance and achievement orientated professional, who is motivated by exceeding expectations and providing excellent results.

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.

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.