Supervisor Training | Operation Services
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
The Supervisor Training role has been established within the OS Training Team to provide site-based coordination of the technical training function. The main focus of this role is to ensure training & assessment activity is undertaken in a timely and high quality manner. This site-based role is critical in ensuring our frontline are work-ready and that availability of people and equipment is not compromised due to training gaps.
The Training Supervisor role is a full-time position and the scope of the role will be across several deployments. Rosters for this role will provide for good coverage across the crews and deployments you will need to manage.
Key focus areas for this role include preparing for new deployments; implementing standardised training & assessment processes; forward planning/forecasting of training & assessment work; undertaking quality checks of training & assessment work (i.e. validation and moderation); troubleshooting competency queries; facilitating handovers and ensuring continuity of support to deployment line leads; supporting mastery implementation.
Accountabilities include:
- Team Management – Oversee Trainers/Assessors for your allocated deployments, supporting work planning, shift changeover and providing guidance, support and troubleshooting of local issues. This role will be a central conduit between the corporate offices and site.
- High Quality Focus – Monitor quality of training & assessment activity, ensuring alignment to site-based Safety & Health Management Systems and Training Schemes, as well as BHP requirements and the broader Vocational Education & Training sector. Quality reviews and audit activity with the assistance of Site Systems Administrators, will be a focus to identify opportunities for standardising & improving training & assessment processes for OS.
- Project Focus – Assist the Technical Capability Leads with continuous improvement projects and implementation of specialised industry and BHP-specific training packages within the required timeframes.
- Networking/Collaboration Focus – Network with key internal stakeholders such as operational line leads (i.e. Supervisors, Line Engineers, and Technical Specialists) and other internal teams (i.e. OS Mastery Team) and other specialised groups who may also be working at the same sites.
About You
It is preferable that you will have:
- Current qualification or skill sets in Training & Assessment.Significant Training & Assessment experience in a similar role within mining or heavy industry.
- Experience managing teams and conflicting priorities, including the capacity to balance day to day workloads alongside project work.
- Experience planning training & assessment activity across multiple scopes to ensure frontline work-readiness is not compromised.
- A continuous improvement focus that identifies opportunities for refining processes at site-level and minimizing pain points for the frontline.
- Understanding of legislative requirements that impact OS deployments.
- High level interpersonal skills and the ability to build highly effective working relationships across a range of team members, stakeholders and working groups.
- Authentically engaging stakeholders to understand & meet their training & competency requirements, as well as troubleshoot any issues that may arise.
- Show initiative and work with minimal direction, being resourceful and proactive in your approach.
- Willingness to lead and implement change, as well as influence and mentor others in training and safety principles and behaviours.
- Proven commitment to look after your own wellbeing and the confidence to speak up when others put themselves in harm’s way.
- Your background in either a similar type of position or environment will see you well placed with the required capability to step into this opportunity. Your ability to plan work, coordinate teams and trouble-shoot problems across varied locations is of the upmost importance, as well as a focus on quality of training/assessment activity and an understanding of how critical training is to safe and efficient operations. It is essential that you are forward thinking, highly collaborative and work with a one-team approach.
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.