HV Technician - Protection Systems| |Iron Ore | FIFO 7:7

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 Us

BHP WA Iron Ore is one of the world’s leading suppliers of iron ore. The Company’s operations currently involve an integrated system of seven inland mines, more than 1,000 kilometres of rail and two separate port facilities, Nelson Point and Finucane Island at Port Hedland. 

Position 

Reporting to the HV & Power Supervisor, your duties as the Technician - Primary Plant & Protection Systems will include:

• Ensure conformance with the BHP Billiton Charter, the BHP Billiton Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations.
• An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development
• Execute detailed commissioning and maintenance on complex protection and control systems
• Execute professional commissioning and maintenance on HV substation primary plant
• Take responsibility for the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of all network assets
• Develop Work Instructions, Task Lists, Procedures for the Primary Plant/Protection System Assets under control of HV & Power, Eastern
• Ensure safe completion and close-out of Primary Plant/Protection System works on a daily basis
• Execute critical Shutdowns, ensuring trouble-free maintenance windows and handback
• Initiating and / or participating in continuous improvement projects
• Liaising with Mine & Town Stakeholders to ensure a safe and efficient service
• Ability to identify problems, implement solutions to manage departmental and company supply chain risk

Skills and Experience

As the successful candidate, you will possess the following: 

• WA “A” Grade Electrical Licence – essential
• High level of commitment to Safety
• Australian C Class Driver’s License (manual) – essential
• Proven maintenance & commissioning experience in a Power Utility environment – Protection Systems, Switchyards, Primary Plant – essential
• Proven experience with High Voltage/Protection Systems in a Mining environment – highly regarded
• Proficiency with setup, commissioning, and monitoring of various Protection Relay schemes, manufacturers etc.  Proficiency with the ‘Omicron’ suite of Protection Equipment will be highly regarded
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are key components of this role as you will work closely with a variety of stakeholders
• Experience with computerised maintenance management systems (SAP experience is highly desirable)
• The ability to apply expertise to analyse and solve problems without clear precedent
• High Risk Work Licence with any/all of WP, CV, LF, Dogging/Rigging endorsements - highly regarded

Location 

With this role, you will be fly-in fly-out from Perth to Newman.  You will be working on all Eastern Pilbara Mine and Newman Township sites, operating and maintaining the generation, transmission and distribution electricity network within the Pilbara region.  This position will work on a 7D:7X FIFO or residential at Newman.

Remuneration and Benefits

Join us and be rewarded with interesting, challenging work in a supportive team culture. Develop skills for life whilst enjoying access to benefits including: flexible working arrangements, incentive bonus, award winning share scheme, 18 weeks paid maternity leave, education assistance and generous superannuation scheme.

• We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.
• This opportunity is currently only open to employees working within Australia.

BHP Billiton Iron Ore is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages indigenous Australian and female candidates to apply.
 

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.