Team Leader | Rolling Stock Maintenance Nelson Point Ore Car Repair Shop | 7D7X Roster

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 seeking a motivated and safety-focused Team Leader to join our Rolling Stock Maintenance team at Nelson Point Ore Car Repair Shop. Reporting to the Shift Supervisor, this role is responsible for leading a large and dynamic maintenance team, driving safe work practices, and delivering operational and maintenance performance outcomes.

This is an exciting leadership opportunity for a proactive individual who enjoys developing people, fostering collaboration, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

As Team Leader, you will provide frontline leadership to support safe, reliable, and efficient maintenance activities while promoting a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a strong commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility, and sustainable development.
• Lead by example to create and maintain an incident and injury-free workplace.
• Appointed Responsible Person (RP), you are required to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Mine Safety & Inspection Act and Mines Safety Inspection Regulations in accordance with your appointment
• Support and coach team members to achieve safety, maintenance, and productivity targets.
• Foster a strong team culture through effective communication, engagement, mentoring, and performance management.
• Work collaboratively with operational and support teams to deliver positive business outcomes.
• Hold team members accountable for meeting agreed performance standards and key performance indicators.
• Complete required reporting, documentation, and data management activities.
• Participate in operations and maintenance planning processes.
• Identify, initiate, and support continuous improvement opportunities.
• Act in the Shift Supervisor role when required.
• Maintain a practical understanding of team activities and support operational delivery as needed.

About You

As the successful applicant you will possess the following:

• Demonstrated leadership experience within a maintenance, mining, heavy industry, rail, or similar operational environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A proactive and solutions-focused approach to problem solving.
• Experience driving performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• A commitment to safety leadership and operational excellence.
• Experience with systems such as SAP, Loc8, RSB, or similar operational systems will be highly regarded.
• An understanding of Lean, continuous improvement, or operating system frameworks is advantageous.

What's on offer

• Permanent full-time role
• FIFO from Perth
• 7D7X roster
• Opportunity to lead a high-performing team within a critical operational area
• Career development and leadership growth opportunities
• Be part of a team committed to safety, performance and continuous improvement.

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. 

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 inclusion@bhp.com.