General Manager Hay Point
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
BMA is Australia’s largest producer and supplier of seaborne metallurgical coal and is owned 50:50 by BHP and Mitsubishi Development. BMA operates five mines in the Bowen Basin (Goonyella Riverside, Broadmeadow, Peak Downs, Saraji, and Caval Ridge) and owns and operates the Hay Point Coal Terminal near Mackay.
As the General Manager Hay Point, you will be accountable to lead high performance in the operation by delivering reliable safe production through an engaged and enabled workforce, maximizing value through the supply chain.
In this role you will also be responsible for:
- Building an inclusive culture whilst encouraging curiosity in leaders and teams by providing alternative perspectives when viewing opportunities and challenges.
- Role modelling behaviours and applications in a disciplined manner for their team to replicate. Leadership underpinned by care, curiosity and humility.
- Defining and cascading a meaningful purpose, to enable a purpose-driven organisation and strengthen the shared Vision.
- Understanding voice of the customer and anticipates industry and customer trends, adapting, to ensure BMA remains competitive.
- Enterprise leader, collaborating with peers and cross functional partners to challenge and improve ways of working.
- Assessing the maturity of the BHP Operating System focussed on improving performance outcomes (safety, culture, operations, cost) adjusting priorities as needed.
- Enabling implementation of large-scale improvements, to processes and ways of working, that deliver performance uplift across the Value Chain.
- Encourages innovation and reflection by enabling teams to experiment and challenge current ways of working.
- Leveraging partnerships with strategically important organisations to navigate a more global business environment.
- Anticipating risk implications and social value outcomes of decisions to enable teams to generate options that will enable business objectives.
- Effectively influencing across the Senior Leader level to enable the identification and removal of systemic barriers to delivering sustainable improvement.
As the General Manager Hay Point, you will be based in Mackay, QLD.
About You
You will have held leadership roles in the resource sector (or a similar industry) where you have a track record in improving performance, and leading and embedding sustainable change within an operation. Additionally, you have experience working in a complex matrix organisation and have a strong understanding of the project lifecycle and value levers with proven success in delivering projects of varying size and complexity.
By nature, you are inquisitive and a problem solver who embraces adaptive challenges to find workable and innovative solutions and can 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 priorities work to meet various, and sometimes competing, 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.
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.
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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 until 13 May 2025 AEST.