Supervisor Maintenance - Drills | Mt Keith | FIFO

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 Nickel West

Nickel West is a fully integrated mine-to-market business. Our culture is rich with technical know-how, highly efficient and focused on innovation. The business employs over 2500 people from five operations across Western Australia comprising of nickel underground and open-cut mines, concentrators, a smelter and a refinery. We also have plans to expand our operations with new mines in the northern Goldfields and a large nickel sulphate plant in Kwinana to capitalise on growing demand in the battery materials sector.  As the world’s largest producer of nickel briquettes and nickel powder, Nickel West is leading the new-energy revolution in Western Australia.

Nickel West has an exciting future ahead. We invite you to join us at Nickel West as we seek to energize our future. 

About the Role

We have an exciting new opportunity for experienced Drill Supervisors at Mt Keith Mine, where we have a state of the art drill fleet. Our team focus is on delivering Industry leading MTBF and availability with a focus of Zero Harm.  

Be at the forefront of Epiroc design research and development with Drill Deck Guard systems and RCS 5. In addition, if that’s not enough, you get to work with a supportive team and highly experienced awesome leaders. 

As a Maintenance Supervisor your main responsibility will be to lead a team to safely deliver at their optimal performance. You will also be a champion for business improvement, and you will be able to help coach, empower and support your team on this journey.

This role will be based at Nickel West Mt Keith in the Drill Team. The role will entail:  

• Coordinating drill maintenance and being the interface of the MEM to Production teams and enabling the team to achieve our goal of delivering Industry leading MTBF and availability with a focus of Zero Harm.
• Leading and providing training to BHP personnel and contracting parties with a span of control no greater than 15 personnel in safety systems and procedures, work management through SAP and embed BHP Lean Management systems.
• Working with MECoE teams to review and optimise weekly maintenance plans and Shutdowns.
• Managing BAU and Shutdown work on Drills with a focus on Safety, MTBF, Availability and MTTR whilst managing budget and identifying and eliminating waste.
• Identifying improvement opportunities within the Mt Keith Mobile Maintenance Team and utilising systems in place to help increase the efficiency of the team.

Reporting to the Superintendent Maintenance, you will also:    

• Foster a positive & productive working relationship and culture between  team members and  other departments;　
• Ensure HSEC standards, hazard identification and management are applied by departmental personnel;　
• Continue to identify opportunities to improve the performance of people, processes and systems;　
• Improve fleet performance through quality maintenance practices;　
• Build cross functional relationships with other areas to support the delivery of maintenance;　
• Coach, review and develop front line teams to ensure their skills are optimised to their full potential.　

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Nickel West will soon become the world’s largest producer of Nickel Sulphate, a key ingredient in lithium-ion batteries. As the world’s largest producer of nickel briquettes and nickel powder, Nickel West is leading the new-energy revolution in Western Australia.

About You

You will have a desire to shape culture, lead a team and improve business processes. Your background in a similar type of position or environment will see you well placed with the required capability to step into this opportunity. Your ability to communicate is of the upmost importance as well as your relationships skills. It is essential that you demonstrate impeccable safety behaviours and being safety focused is part of your everyday. In addition, you will:

• Have sound business acumen;　
• Have an understanding of SAP or other Enterprise Management Systems.　
• Have a trade or engineering qualification with a Drills background

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 applicant’s 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 [email protected].

We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.

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