Senior Mine Scheduling Engineer | Carrapateena

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 Senior Mine Scheduling Engineer plays an important leadership role within the Carrapateena Short Term Planning team, ensuring safe, efficient, and timely weekly schedules, drill and blast designs, and ensuring compliance to our production. In this role you will be responsible for leading a team of Mining Engineers producing the short term schedules and production plans. The role is a key interface between the Mine Technical and Mine Operations teams. This position is central to ensuring the mine is working in compliance to its strategic objectives through the execution of priority work in the short term time frame. This role is based at Carrapateena and is FIFO from Adelaide or Pt Augusta on an 8 days on / 6 days off roster. In this role you will: Lead a team of Production Engineers and Short Term Schedulers, in all aspects of underground drill and blast and weekly scheduling required for safe and efficient mining. Be responsible for guiding the Short Term Schedulers and Production Engineers to produce high quality plans aligned with site standards, the Production Management Plan, operational needs and schedule requirements. Ensure the mine is working in compliance to it strategic objectives through the execution of the 13-week mine production plan, while maintaining safety performance and cost compliance to budget. Maintain and govern the Production Management Plan to ensure standardised site systems align with industry best practice, and drive compliance to this Plan in our technical designs and their execution. Identify and drive improvements in production, safety, process and systems. Track and drive compliance to plan, ensuring learnings from variance are understood and embedded into future planning processes. Liaise closely with the Operations Seniors to perform QAQC of the production execution processes, to maintain quality and compliance standards. Review and sign off drill and blast designs and weekly schedules. About You Strong leadership skills with demonstrated experience in safety leadership. Experience in mine design, drill and blast, scheduling, and production activities. Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering or equivalent. Solid experience in underground mining. Sublevel cave or block cave experience highly regarded. Completed underground crew work is essential. Ability to build collaborative relationships with multiple internal stakeholders, through supportive and effective communication. Strong time management and problem‑solving skills. Proficient in Deswik.CAD (essential), UGDB and Sched (desirable). Valid manual Drivers Licence. How to Apply Please apply before 30 November 2025 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. 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