Lead - Scheduling Engineer | Prominent Hill

About the Role:

Prominent Hill is a copper-gold mine, a long-life asset, that is part of the BHP South Australia copper province.  BHP is a global company with operations in Australia, North and South America across 5 different commodities.

You’ll be a valued and trusted leader for the technical team and drive initiatives that enable operational excellence.
 

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Location: Prominent Hill, South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 8 days on; 6 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off
Department: Technical Services
Manager: Superintendent – Mining Engineering 
Employment Type: Permanent. 

Applications close:  17 February 2025

In This Role You Will:

• Lead a team of mine scheduling engineers to deliver safe and accurate mine schedules from 24 months to weekly time horizons.
• Manage the Quarterly forecast in alignment with LOA and budget requirements.
• Support integration of the PHOX project schedule into the mine schedules.
• Work with all stakeholders to ensure schedules meets requirements, with rates and assumptions used in Quarterly forecast agreed upon.
• Provide compliance to plan reporting to site and corporate leadership teams.
• Effectively communicate the mine schedule to all stakeholders.
• Identify schedule critical paths, risks and opportunities.
• Keep the mine scheduling MOS up to date and continually look for opportunities to improve.
• Provide training and mentoring to mining engineers on use of Deswik SCH and scheduling concepts.
• Ensure scheduling priorities are achieved in a safe and efficient manner.

About You:

• Significant experience working in underground, hard rock, metalliferous mining.
• Mine scheduling experience in a sub-level open stoping mine.
• UG practical experience highly regarded.
• Proven experience in mine design in sub-level open stoping.
• Proven experience leading a team of Engineers to deliver safe production.
• Motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to work in high pressure and dynamic environments.
• Actively promote safe production.
• High level of experience with Deswik.IS software.

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