Supervisor Control Operations | IROC | Daunia & Blackwater Mine

About IROC+ The BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) Integrated Remote Operations Centre (IROC) is a state-of-the-art control operations facility encompassing our coal asset operations located across Central Queensland. This world-class control centre makes a significant contribution to ensuring our Coal operations continue to improve performance in a sustainable way by coordinating the near-term scheduling, planning, and controlling of our coal assets from the Brisbane CBD.

About the Role

The IROC (Integrated Remote Operations Centre) at BHP are currently looking for a number of Supervisor – Control Operations to join their team. As a Supervisor – Control Operations, you will lead a team focused on the safe and productive controlling and monitoring of equipment, operations and production.

In this full-time permanent position, you will be based at our Brisbane corporate office and – working 12.5hr shifts, 4:5:5:4 rotating day/night roster - lifestyle roster.

You will work in an environment which is dynamic and striving to continuously improve performance, and with this, you will be involved in continuous improvement projects to help us become even better!

In this role you will:

• Operate and optimize the mining fleet management systems, troubleshoots production problems to effectively deliver on production and safety targets. 
• Oversee processing/refining control systems to safeguard commodity production and reduce downtime/waste during processing/refining operations. 
• Review production trends, troubleshoots safety and production risks for efficient mine operations.
• Manage delay capturing/accounting, ensuring accurate data entry in fleet management systems.
• Determine the underlying cause of problems and evaluate multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems. 
• Identify and assess risks, make risk informed decisions, use BHP's risk management framework and build a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes. 
• Manage new and existing sets of master data, run and cleanse reports to remove errors and improve the quality of master data across BHP. 

Divestment of Blackwater and Daunia Mines:

On 18th October 2023, BHP announced that BHP and Mitsubishi Development have agreed to divest the Blackwater and Daunia mines to Whitehaven Coal. Whitehaven will assume operating control of the Daunia and Blackwater mines on completion of the sale, which is expected to occur in Q4 FY24.  Whitehaven will provide an offer of employment to each employee directly supporting the Blackwater and Daunia mines. 

The successful candidate will receive an offer of employment and contract from BMA for the role, and once the role has commenced, they will receive a second contract from Whitehaven on conditions of employment that are no less favourable on an overall basis. 

The offer of employment from Whitehaven will start on Legal Day 1 once Whitehaven assumes operating control of Daunia and Blackwater Mines. Until Legal Day 1, BMA will maintain operating control of Daunia and Blackwater Mines.

About You

As the successful candidate, you will demonstrate: 

• Ability to assess threats/opportunities, make informed decisions, and foster a risk-aware culture.
• Foster- inclusion, balance team capabilities, enable change, and share an engaging vision for team alignment and high performance.
• Identify, engage and manage a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders. 
• Prioritise work effort and resources accordingly. 
• Strive to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste. 
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to effectively prioritise tasks and work autonomously.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills with a proven ability to build relationships and facilitate presentations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively coach to improve performance and upskill.
• You will be a motivated individual who can use their relationship building and negotiation skills in order to influence others and achieve desired outcomes.
• You will exhibit strong computer skills with the ability to learn new systems.
• You are able to work in high pressure environments with tight deadlines.

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.