Dragline Operators | BMA | Peak Downs Mine

Date: 17 Jul 2025

Job Posting End Date: 15-Aug-2025;13:59:59GMT

Job Country:

Australia

Job State/Province: Queensland

Job Location/Region: Bowen Basin

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

Peak Downs Mine are currently recruiting for passionate individuals for permanent roles within our Dragline team. We want to hear from you if you are looking to join our world-class operational team either now or in the near future. We believe that people are the key to our continued success; having the right people working within our organisation at all levels will allow us to become the safest, most productive mine site we can be and sustain our operations well into the future.

Roles will be based at BMA’s Peak Downs Mine Site, near Moranbah, Central Queensland on a 6/6 day/night roster, and will require you to:

Have a strong commitment to ensuring a safe and environmentally healthy workplace
Maintain high standards of safety, equipment serviceability, housekeeping and compliance for mine working procedures
Work cooperatively within a team to achieve safe production targets

About You

Successful candidates will possess the following:

Current Dragline Operating experience with significant open-cut mining experience
HR licence or site Heavy Rigid authorisation
A genuine commitment to safety
Strong communication skills and a track record of achieving results through influence
Motivated, enthusiastic individual who can work with minimal supervision and engage in team operations
Minimum C Class Driver’s licence
Passion for continuous improvement to drive individual and team performance

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.

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.