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HV Electrical Supervisor | Port Hedland | 8/6 Roster Residential OR FIFO

Date:  8 Jan 2025
Job Posting End Date:  22-Jan-2025;15:59:59GMT
Job Country: 

Australia

Job State/Province:  Western Australia
Job Location/Region:  Pilbara

 

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


Reporting to the Superintendent HV Electrical Infrastructure, your duties as a Supervisor HV Electrical Maintenance will include:
 

  • Ensure conformance with the BHP charter values, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations
  • An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development
  • Demonstrate visible safety leadership to promote a culture of zero harm through time in the field and endorsement of quality risk assessments ensuring material risk controls are implemented
  • Supervision of commissioning and maintenance testing of complex protection and control systems
  • Supervision of HV switching, commissioning and maintenance testing on HV/LV primary plant including switchyard equipment and LV PDPs and MCCs
  • Compliance with the relevant legislation including but not limited to the Mine Safety & Inspection Act & Regulations
  • As an Electrical Nominee ensure that all electrical work is compliant to AS 3000 and electrical maintenance, installations and incidents are recorded in the Electrical Log Book and reported to the network regulator and associated regulating bodies
  • Exercise a proficient level of technical knowledge and expertise to make informed decisions and support HV Technicians in the performance of their duties
  • Provide mentoring and on the job technical training to HV technicians to further their individual technical skills and knowledge


About You


As the successful candidate, you will possess the following:

 

  • WA “A” Grade Electrical License
  • A current valid driver’s License
  • Experience with HV electrical equipment and systems specific to mining and utilities (including diagnosis and fault-finding substations, switchgear and transformers)
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills as you will work with closely with a variety of stakeholders
  • Strong Leadership, communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills
  • Demonstrated application of performance management and development of tradespeople and apprentices
  • Experience with computerised maintenance management systems (1SAP experience is highly desirable)


Location 


With this role, you will be either residential or fly-in fly-out from Perth to Port Hedland on 8 days on, 6 days off roster. You will be working on Port Hedland sites, operating and maintaining the transmission and distribution electricity network across the BHP Port operations 
 

 

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. 

 

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.