Manager Portfolio Delivery | Brisbane or Adelaide

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.

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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.

We are seeking a forward thinking and talented individual to take on the key role of Portfolio Delivery Manager across the Copper and Coal Asset Projects Portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity for a high performing professional to work with a range of senior stakeholders where your contribution will have significant impact on the business.

The role will be based either in Brisbane or in Adelaide, with frequent travel to various sites in Qld, NSW, SA to ensure safe delivery of project objectives. Reporting directly into the Head of Asset, the Portfolio Delivery Manager will be a key participant in the Copper and Coal Project Lead Team and be responsible for the safe and predictable delivery of the capital portfolio for medium sized (US$30M to US$250M) capital projects across our Coal and Copper Assets as part of our Minerals Australia Projects team, in QLD, NSW and SA.

The role will provide leadership to a highly skilled and diverse team of projects professionals.

Empowering people and achieving project success is the key requirement of this role. The Portfolio Delivery Manager will be the driving force behind the portfolio to ensure it is delivered safely on time, and within budget. The role will develop strategies for execution, quality and consistency, lead assurance activities, and foster improvements across our delivery teams. Working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders, the successful candidate will engage with Project Delivery Teams to support project execution and work with various functions, including Safety, Commercial, Project Controls, Engineering and Risk & Assurance, to achieve project objectives.

The Manager will be the key driver for improved engineering performance and effectiveness from our Owner's Team and Engineering Service Providers and be integral in the management of the regional Engineering Services Panel.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Provide leadership to teams throughout the project lifecycle, focused on the governance and execution of construction strategies, standards / frameworks and integration and interface management.
• Monitors and manages portfolio performance, identifies critical activities, monitors the project plan/schedule and drives continuous improvement initiatives to deliver the capital portfolio in line with safety standards, requirements, budget and scope.
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Maintains oversight to ensure that projects are executed in compliance with both internal and external governance processes and Our Requirements.
• Collaborates with Assets to manage the effective transition of projects into Operations.
• Provide support for early delivery inputs to projects in early development phases.
• Lead the creation of an environment in which lessons learned and external best practices are part of the operational processes and identify capital efficiency initiatives and productivity improvements.
• Implement positive communication and cultural processes to support project and operational outcomes.
• Ensures creation of an environment in which internal lessons learned and external best practices are part of the operational processes and manages the measurement and continuous improvement of performance, recommending any changes required to identify capital efficiency initiatives and productivity improvements.
• Working in a proactive business culture with a supportive management structure, and leveraging off the successful candidate extensive experience, the role will have the chance to promote business excellence through the delivery team and make full use of your broad range of skills in the areas of continuous improvement, technical knowledge, business acumen and communication.

You will have significant Project Management experience, preferably via delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary investments and management of large teams, with tertiary qualifications in Engineering or a trade qualification with relevant experience in Project Management; supplementary MBA or similar commercial qualifications preferred but not essential.

With previous experience in a similar senior roles you will have managed and developed teams and be confident in working within a complex environment. Leadership role within a broad portfolio management exposure (>$500mil/y) is highly desirable.
As an experienced professional with a passion for guiding, developing and influencing teams and individual team members through mentoring and coaching you will bring strong leadership capabilities with a demonstrated ability to lead a team that delivers high performance. Confidence, resilience and determination to hold yourself and others accountable are key attributes to be successful in the position.

We value diversity in experience and your career history will testify to your ability to demonstrate strong critical reasoning skills, proactively identify issues and ultimately develop solutions. Energetic and driven, with a strong understanding of safe operations and safe behaviour fundamentals you work well under pressure and uncertainty bringing a high attention to detail and the consistent ability to meet multiple deadlines.

A performance and achievement orientated professional, your technical strengths will be complemented by excellent engagement and communication skills. Proactive, credible and influential, you relate well with people, communicating confidently and building strong working relationships with key stakeholders.

This is an opportunity to have a real business impact and influence the way decisions are made.

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.

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 .

As a world-leading resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, our products are sold worldwide, with sales and marketing led through our Singapore and Houston locations.

We're focused on the resources the world needs to grow and decarbonise. Copper for renewable energy. Nickel for electric vehicles. Potash for sustainable farming. Iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition.

A resources mix for today and for the future.

We have over 80,000 employees and you'll find BHP people from the Pilbara to the Bowen Basin, from Saskatchewan to Santiago and from Texas, Trinidad and Tobago to Singapore and Melbourne.

As a world-leading resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, our products are sold worldwide, with sales and marketing led through our Singapore and Houston locations.

We're focused on the resources the world needs to grow and decarbonise. Copper for renewable energy. Nickel for electric vehicles. Potash for sustainable farming. Iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition.

A resources mix for today and for the future.

We have over 80,000 employees and you'll find BHP people from the Pilbara to the Bowen Basin, from Saskatchewan to Santiago and from Texas, Trinidad and Tobago to Singapore and Melbourne.

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