General Manager Engineering
Australia
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
Joining the WAIO Asset Leadership team and reporting to the Asset President, you will provide senior leadership to teams focused on the supervision of Engineering activities, integrating plans and activities to deliver a strategy for safe productivity.
As the General Manager - WAIO you will be responsible for:
- Conducting engineering tasks, verifying construction methodologies and advising on engineering decisions for projects in alignment with Project / Construction / Commissioning Engineering Standards
- Employing specific or relevant discipline engineering expertise and leadership to meet BHP's technical expectations.
- Assessing change impacts to prepare integrated change management plans, managing change readiness and resistance, and upskilling leaders and impacted stakeholders in the adoption and successful delivery of the change.
- Translating corporate objectives into actionable plans, communicating, managing and analysing the implementation of those plans, and reporting back on their progress to facilitate the delivery of our strategy.
- Identifying, engaging and managing a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Identifying and assessing risks, making risk informed decisions that utilises BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
- Prioritising work effort and resources accordingly.
- Designing and implementing governance / assurance practices and Management of Change procedures to control value outcomes across BHP.
- Engaging the capabilities of the entire organisation.
- Striving to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
- Knowing our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs.
In this role, you will be based in Perth and will be required to travel to site.
About You
You will have held engineering leadership roles either in the resource or heavy industry sector and can demonstrate how you have utilised your technical and project management skills to lead teams through engineering activities, projects, standards and governance to positively and safely impact a business. You will have a strong understanding of the project lifecycle, value levers and have proven success in delivery projects of varying size and complexity.
By nature, you are inquisitive and a problem solver who embraces technical challenges to find the workable and innovative solutions and are able to build relationships with an array of stakeholders to achieve objectives. Your communication, listening and influencing skills will all be strengths, along with your ability to prioritise work to meet various, and sometimes conflicting, deliverables.
You are at ease in leading diverse teams through change, as well as having success in building capability through utilising your coaching and mentoring skills to make a difference to the team. From a safety leadership perspective, you value nothing more than the safety of the workforce and hold yourself and others to account.
A tertiary qualification in Engineering, or a similar qualification 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.
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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.
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Welcoming qualified applicants through to 14 April 2025.