Lead Mine Scheduling | Goonyella Mine | BMA

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About The Role

Goonyella Riverside Mine is seeking an exceptional and future-focused Lead Mine Scheduling to join our high-performing Mine Planning team. This is a critical role at Australia’s largest autonomous coal mine shaping how we operate today — and how we plan for tomorrow.

As a key advisor to the Superintendent and broader leadership team, you will take ownership of the load and haul strategy across autonomous and conventional operations. You will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence, continuous improvement, stakeholder integration, and governance in guiding the short-term and tactical mine direction. You will be responsible for leading, developing, and coaching a team of Mine Scheduling Specialists ensuring safe, accurate, and executable designs.

In this role, you will:

· Lead the execution of the site’s Prestrip design strategy across Budget, Short Range Forecast (SRF), Weekly, and 24hr planning horizons.

· Apply advanced knowledge of prestrip first-principles, including dig-readiness planning, reserving, geotechnical compliance, environmental controls, and infrastructure alignment.

· Ensure tactical direction is fit-for-purpose, clearly communicated, and aligned across Planning, Survey, Geotechnical, and Production teams.

· Provide clear, data-driven insights to support decision-making for site leadership.

· Drive performance and continuous improvement through management of performance, problem solving, and improvement projects.

· Mentor and develop schedulers within the team, uplifting capability and promoting best practice planning practices.

· Comply with relevant policies, Our Requirements (ORs), and the SHMS.

About You

We’re looking for a passionate mining professional with a strong background in open-cut coal planning who brings:

· Minimum 5 years’ experience in mine planning, with proven experiences in Prestrip planning. Diversified experience across a range of mine planning disciplines including scheduling, haulage planning, drill & blast, coal planning, rehabilitation and contractor activities.

· Proficiency in mine planning software (e.g., Spry, Vulcan, Deswik or similar).

· A collaborative, team-focused approach with strong communication skills.

· A passion for uplifting capability, improving systems and delivering high-quality schedules.

· The ability to influence, engage and work with a diverse range of stakeholders.

· Exposure to autonomous environments, fleet management systems and real-time operational data analysis is highly regarded.

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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.
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