Manager Engineering | Copper South Australia | Major Projects

Mining - Engineering & Maintenance (Mining, Resources & Energy)

Full time

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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 Manager Engineering across the Copper South Australia (CuSA) Major 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 preferably based in Adelaide and reporting directly into the Program Director Engineering and Quality Minerals Australia, PCoE, the Manager will sit on the CuSA Major Project Lead Team and be held responsible for engineering performance and outcomes across all phases and projects within the portfolio. The role will provide leadership to a highly skilled and diverse engineering team, consisting of Project and Discipline Engineers, focused on all aspects of engineering through project framing, development and execution of plans, assurance over process and outcomes and integration into construction and handover. In addition, as part of the Engineering and Quality Lead Team you will identify and influence strategic initiatives to drive productivity and cultural improvements across MAP and support your engineering colleagues globally.

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. As a leading contributor and key advisor, you will deliver on your accountabilities with an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility, and sustainable development.

Key accountabilities will include:

• Development of the project engineering management strategy, plans, standards, processes, and systems for capital projects to ensure optimum delivery across the portfolio.
• Fulfil the role of regional Engineering Services Panel representative.
• Responsible to the Study/Project Manager to ensure that integrated project scope, cost, schedule, value and risk requirements are met.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of engineering service providers within the project portfolio.
• Leads performance management of engineering service providers at a portfolio level, including drive for engineering effectiveness and capital efficiency.
• Manages resource availability of project engineering personnel to provide:
  • Support during engineering design development and detailed engineering.
  • In field support during execution and handover.
  • Engineering change management during development and delivery.
• Respectfully and professionally, influence stakeholders to drive optimised outcomes.
• Collaborates with Study / Project Manager, Discipline Engineering, Quality, Commissioning and Operational Readiness to ensure that engineering is developed and executed in accordance with identified methodologies, strategies and systems.
• 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.
• Identifies talent and capability and provides input to broader talent plans to enable development of a high performing team.

Working in a proactive business culture with a supportive management structure, and leveraging off your extensive experience, you will have the chance to promote business excellence through your team and you'll make full use of your broad range of skills in the areas of continuous improvement, technical knowledge, business acumen and communication.

You will have 15 + years' experience with tertiary qualifications in Engineering or a trade qualification with relevant experience in Project Management. With previous experience in a similar senior role you will have managed and developed teams and be confident in working within a complex environment. Leadership role within a major project (>$1B) 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 abilities with a demonstrated ability to lead a team that delivers high performance.

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.

Adelaide based is preferred, otherwise an alternative location and travel arrangement can be discussed with successful applicant.

Application close on Friday, 14 Jun 2024.

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.

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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] .

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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