Superintendent Ventilation - Olympic Dam

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 Olympic Dam

One of Australia’s largest mines and a complex minerals processing operation, Olympic Dam is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping and cultural facilities.

Within the Olympic Dam Mine, you will work with passionate, innovative and results driven individuals who bring the best of themselves to what they do. Coming from diverse backgrounds, they embrace new ways of working and benefit from comprehensive training to prepare them for their roles.

About the Role

Reporting to the Manager Mine Planning, the role of Superintendent Ventilation Mine will be based at Olympic Dam and offered on an 8/6 Wednesday to Wednesday FIFO roster (ex-Adelaide) or residential at Roxby Downs.

Ongoing accountabilities for this role include:

• Ensuring an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development.
• Lead and coach field leadership activities, participate in safety meetings, investigate and manage key safety investigations relevant to the team 
• Positively shape culture in alignment with the BHP Charter Values
• Overseeing the day-to-day running of the Mine Ventilation team.
• Providing leadership to Mine Ventilation team and empowering them to support performance of the mine
• Interfacing regularly with all Mine based execution groups, Mine Control Operations, Mine Coordinators, Schedule and Planning teams to maximise copper production and production efficiencies
• Monitoring operating costs ensuring that spend is controlled to the allocated budget
• Reporting and investigating any significant deviation from the operational plans
• Lead process improvement initiatives to support customer group by leveraging BOS practices
• Proactively identifying and resolving systemic issues associated with ventilation plan and schedule quality and for assessing the potential impact on production

About You

• Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering or equivalent
• Extensive experience in Underground Mining, SLOS and cave mining methods exposure highly regarded
• Experience in Underground Hard Rock Ventilation and managing underground ventilation networks is preferred
• Experience with real time environmental monitoring systems and proactive approach to workplace health monitoring
• Additional experience managing Radiation exposure highly regarded
• Demonstrated delivery of pragmatic ventilation solutions to support development and production mine plans
• Leadership experience and engagement of teams that support high quality and engaged delivery
• Experience implementing continuous improvement strategies with financial and commercial acumen
• The ability to engage and find positive outcomes with internal and external stakeholders
• Exposure to Ventsim, Deswik or other CAD packages

How to Apply

Please apply before 19 December 2025.

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.