General Manager - OS Maintenance West

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. Coms sure ye and be a part of this success through this leadership role!

About the role

BHP Operations Services delivers industry leading mining services across BHP operations Australia-wide with specialist capabilities in load and haul, fixed plant maintenance and mobile maintenance.

BHP Operations Services (OS) has a strong focus on people capability and culture. Our people are our greatest asset and are at the centre of everything that we do. We focus on high performance safety and productivity through our people. With world-class training that is unmatched in the industry and the opportunity to advance your career across locations and commodities, join the team and make your place in BHP.

We are now looking for an experienced leader to join our team as the General Manager – OS Maintenance West, where you will be leading the Maintenance West Department focused on the coordination and safe execution of maintenance activities (including shutdowns) to enable optimised performance and equipment availability across our mines.  

Reporting to the Vice President Operations Services, you will work with a range of internal stakeholders to build relationships through effective communication and consultation, whilst shaping the culture to ensure a safe, productive, quality, sustainable and disciplined approach to executing the work. 

You’ll lead our dynamic fixed‑plant maintenance workforce and key delivery partners, driving performance across Belts Maintenance, Conveyors Maintenance, Port Operations, as well as the coordination and successful delivery of major shutdowns.

In this role you will be based in Perth, WA with frequent travel throughout the operations. 

About you

We’re seeking an experienced maintenance leader with a proven ability to shape and execute high‑performance maintenance strategies. You’ll bring deep expertise in managing broad and complex asset portfolios, confidently coordinating across diverse internal and external stakeholders. 

With a background in the resources sector (or a similar heavy‑industry environment), you have a strong track record of designing, implementing, and delivering maintenance strategies that drive measurable results. You have successfully led complex shutdown cycles—on time and on budget—while relentlessly lifting performance through smarter systems, streamlined processes, and improved ways of working.

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.

Your leadership is grounded in genuine care and transparency, engaging with frontline teams to build strong connections and foster a culture of trust. Safety leadership is at your core—you value nothing more than the wellbeing of the workforce.  With a proven track record in leading diverse teams, you are passionate about building capability through coaching and mentoring, making a tangible difference to people and performance.

About Our Process  

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are several 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.   

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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Applications close at 11:59 PM AEST on 22 February 2026.