Lead Health Safety Security | Mineral Australia Projects | Pilbara Travel

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.

Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) is an integrated system of four processing hubs and five mines, connected by more than 1,000 kilometres of rail infrastructure and port facilities in the Pilbara region of northern Western Australia.

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role

We are currently seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead – Health, Safety & Security (HSS) to join our Minerals Australia Projects HSS team, supporting the WA Asset Projects Delivery Portfolio.

Reporting to the Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) Manager, you will play a pivotal role in supporting team members across multiple locations in Pilbara. This high-profile position requires strategic thinking that translates into effective operational practices, driving the delivery of HSS technical and strategic improvement initiatives.

You will be instrumental in building capability and capacity within the HSS function by developing, coaching, and aligning project delivery teams.

The role involves frequent travel and demands adaptability and flexibility to support the growth and success of the HSS team. The 5/2/4/3 fly-in, fly-out roster requires weekly travel of 3 days on site, the remaining days in Perth.

Key responsibilities:

• Engage the projects leadership, projects owners team and supporting functions to ensure effective health and safety management are established and maintained throughout the life cycle of the projects.
• Provide HSS leadership across a portfolio within the WA Asset Projects portfolio supporting both owners team and contractor leadership.
• Serve as a coach and mentor to HSS team members, fostering professional growth and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Lead portfolio wide HSS strategies and initiatives across the engaging regional HSS teams, technical and asset.
• Engage on HSS related commercial and technical querier related to the portfolio.
• Support the deployment of health and safety strategies embedding core safety processes, including coaching and monitoring with visible field leadership.
• Implement HSS strategies that align with project delivery goals and review project work packs for compliance and effectiveness.
• Support the projects HSS Strategy implementation across the projects portfolio and other improvement initiatives.
• Analyse HSS data to support benchmarking, develop key performance metrics, and generate actionable insights.
• Adhere to and consistently apply safety standards and procedures to ensure safe and effective daily operations.

About You

As the successful applicant you will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Proven ability to lead by example and coach others in safety leadership.
• Proficient in being able to contextualise challenges and communicate in a concise and influential way.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and understand customers.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement and confident in making informed decisions.
• Experience in a mining or projects environment, studies and delivery of different contract and execution models.
• In-depth knowledge of Western Australian work health and safety legislation in mining environment.
• Experience in leadership and translating strategic priorities into tactical plans.
• Proficient in database systems with a keen eye for process automation and reporting improvements.
• Tertiary qualification in Health, Occupational Hygiene, Safety, Science, Risk Management or a related discipline.

To find out more about working with BHP and to meet some of our team, click here.

Application close on Thursday, 10 Jul 2025.

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.