Supervisor Geoscience Operations | Blackwater Mine | 8:6 | 12 Months Fixed Term
BHP
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 the Role
We are looking for motivated Supervisors to support the delivery of our geoscience programs across our BHP Coal assets in Queensland. Reporting to the Superintendent Geoscience Operations, your role within the Geoscience Operations team will see you leading skilled teams in the safe and efficient delivery of field activities including , drilling, seismic, earthworks, borehole decommissioning and rehabilitation activities across our mine sites and exploration tenements. As a collaborative leader focused on achieving program outcomes, you will foster an environment where health, wellbeing and a high performing culture underpins our success. As a supervisor within the Geoscience group, an important part of the work we do is underpinned by; A key pillar to our sustainability and integral to how we contribute to social value creation, managing our risks, reducing our adverse environmental, social, economic and cultural impacts. Reduce our financial liability, maintain our social license to operate and improve our stakeholder relationships by meeting our environmental obligations of rehabilitating legacy disturbance from exploration activities. Provide opportunities for successful indigenous partnerships with potential scope increase via building capability. As the Supervisor Geoscience Operations you will:
- Role-model a safe, productive, sustainable and disciplined approach to work.
- Positively influence an engaged and inclusive culture, where everyone is valued as part of our team and motivated to achieve their full potential.
- Be focused on creating a mature safety culture through engaging, developing and coaching your team in effective hazard identification and risk control.
- Build strong effective working relationships across multi-disciplinary teams, seeking to understand our customer’s needs and managing to their expectations.
- Effectively manage and successfully deliver projects in dynamic environments.
- Encourage innovative thought and spend time improving to make each day better than the last.
About You
You will have a collaborative approach, with the ability to engage and influence diverse stakeholder groups influencing positive outcomes. Excellent communication skills include a deep understanding of stakeholder needs and an ability to support leadership teams by providing context and insight to facilitate decision-making considering strategic direction. Additional desirable skills include:
- Previous experience as a Technician, Supervisor, Geologist, Operational or Engineering roles.
- Relevent experience working with Indigenous contracting partners, landowners and traditional owner/first nations and other community groups advantageous.
- Relevant project management and managing contractors experience.
- Exploration or mining experience with exposure to RC, diamond and hydro drilling (Conventional and Dual Rotary), geophysics, earthworks and field works advantageous.
- Experience with working in remote area work locations distant from mine sites.
- Qualifications to enable Supervisor Appointment at BMA sites ie (S1, S2, S3, G2) is preferable.
- Current First Aid and CPR is desirable.
Location This is a 12 months Fixed term role based at Blackwater. This role requires a presence across our BHP Coal assets in Queensland, based in the Bowen Basin region on an 8:6 roster, we’re keen to discuss flexible work arrangements that may best suit you (including options for alternative home location, rosters and/or job share arrangements).
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.
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.