Principal Dam Engineer

vor 1 Monat


Brisbane, Österreich Bhp Vollzeit

Date: 14 Oct 2024

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: Queensland

Job Location/Region: Brisbane

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

As part of the BMA Asset Engineering and Technical team, the Principal Dam Engineer is accountable for the assurance of the integrity of BMA's tailings and water storage facilities through engineering governance. You will provide engineering technical leadership across BMA's tailings and water storage facilities, including management of existing facilities, dam development, remediation work, maintaining standards and guidelines for dam design and maintenance, providing technical support to the responsible dam engineers, and assisting with compliance activities. This is a Brisbane-based role with occasional travel to BMA's Bowen Basin sites as required. Key responsibilities include:

Provide subject matter expertise and technical guidance on tailings and water storage facilities.
Provide technical support and governance to other members of the Dams G&TS team, site based responsible dam engineers and broader BHP stakeholder groups;
Support risk management activities to ensure standardised approach incorporating key engineering inputs;
Support the team in conformance with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) and Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM);
Manage contracts and work packages with the Engineer of Record teams.
Manage contracts with Independent Tailings Review Board (ITRB) and co-ordinate annual reviews.
Interface with the BHP Tailings Excellence Team and Global Practice Leads;
Support dam risk reduction projects;
Interface with key groups such as ANCOLD, ICOLD, CDA, and MAC on emerging practice standards;
Develop and maintain BMA standards, guidelines and procedures relating to dams.

About You

You will have strong stakeholder engagement, influencing skills and the ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels and disciplines (including technical writing for a non-technical audience). You will ideally possess the following skills and experience:

Have a strong focus on safety culture.
Degree in civil / geotechnical engineering or related discipline.
At least 15 years of experience in tailings and water storage investigation, design, construction, maintenance, remediation, operation and closure, with a focus in the following areas:

Design criteria (hydraulics, hydrology, seismic design, liquefaction, slope stability, etc.).
Failure impact and consequence category assessment (including dam break modelling).
Risk assessment – using FMEAs to inform design criteria, treatment of population at risk, etc.
Construction QA/QC.
Dam related emergency preparedness and response.
Tailings monitoring and reconciliation with respect to life of asset, five year, and short-range forecasts.
Dam remediation (ranging from silt removal, embankment reinstatement, removal of vegetation, buttressing etc.).
Closure of tailings storage facilities.

Previous operational mining experience is preferred but not essential.
Ability to translate theoretical concepts and specifications into practical solutions for a mining environment.
An open Australian driving licence is required.

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. Please note as part of this recruitment process the successful applicant will need to conduct a Queensland legislated coal mine workers' health assessment. From 1 April 2023, ResHealth will be mandatory for the completion of coal mine workers' health assessments, allowing you to submit, monitor and review the progress of your health assessment in a secure online environment.

For more information please go to the ResHealth website. If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

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