Supervisor | Production Prestrip | BMA Caval Ridge

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 - What's it like working for BHP at one of our coal assets?

About the Role

This 7/7 roster (days and nights) role is located at Caval Ridge, 12km west of Moranbah supporting FIFO with flights included out of Brisbane or Cairns or DIDO from local areas.

BMA Prestrip at CVM consists of a crew up to 50 personnel, the equipment you will be overseeing:

• CAT 7495 Electric Rope Shovel 

• x3- 600 Tonne Excavators

• Mixed fleet 797 & 793 Cat Rear Dumps

As a crucial part of our production mining team, you will utilise your superior people management, strong decision making skills and extensive mining experience to lead a diverse team at our Caval Ridge Mine. Your main focus will be to provide a safe working environment and support the mine plan through the engagement, and development of others in order to ensure teams are working together to achieve Production goals.

Through this you will be expected to work with supportive, development-oriented leadership, this is an excellent opportunity to take ownership, to be accountable for your decisions, to cultivate your people and to be rewarded by seeing the physical results of your work.

Reporting to the Pre Strip Superintendent, In this role you will:

• Prioritise safety through active field leadership engagement;

• Safely execute Prestrip Operations, including the management of people and equipment;

• Lead, coach and mentor a crew of diverse multi-skilled operators to safely and cost effectively deliver the plan and build a high performance team;

• Identify improvement opportunities and work collaboratively with other departments to ensure efficiency and production is maximised;

• Ensure safety, improvements and production are managed appropriately in management systems for reporting and execution purposes.

About You

• Supervisory experience within a mine Production department is essential;

• Demonstrate managing multiple conflicting priorities and strong decision-making skills to achieve the best outcome for crews and production in the short and long term;

• Collaborative relationship building and negotiation skills in order to engage others and work on accountability;

• Able to use business improvement techniques to pursue better ways of working for the crew and team;

• Sound computer literacy;

• Support and grow a culture of diversity within the team;

• Looking to develop a career with a supportive, innovative and diverse thinking site team focused on improvements and development opportunities for an engaged workforce.

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.