Line Technical Specialist (Continuous Improvement) | WAIO | Multiple Sites Perth/FIFO/Resi

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 location 

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.   Multiple sites available including Perth, FIFO and Residential working 5/2/4/3 & 5/2 rosters.

About the Role 

Reporting to the BOS Lead, this position is accountable for implementation of BHP Operating System (BOS) and delivery of continuous improvement initiatives for the site by effectively influencing and collaborating across departments and workstreams. 

BOS is a way of leading and working that makes improvement part of what we do every day and focuses on Serving Our Customers, Pursuing Operation Perfection and Empowering Our People. 

Key Accountabilities 

• Enable a healthy and performing improvement engine at all levels within the operation, whilst focusing coaching activities at Frontline to Superintendent level (L1-L3)
• Assist site leaders with the identification, prioritisation, problem solving and implementation of frontline improvement.
• Assist site leaders with prioritised Kaizen / site breakthrough initiatives at L3 (departmental level).
• Assist site leadership in the monitoring of BOS capability and local training required to maintain and continuously build BOS capability in all areas across the site.
• Build the operational site teams’ ability to problem solve and continually improve their work off a base of Standardised Work, replicating and sharing best practice within high impact repetitive maintenance activities and making frontline work safer, easier, better.
• Enables growth and utilisation of Standardised Work (SW) within their operation. Inclusive of creating new & updating existing SW.
• Enables the core systems associated with the ‘improvement engine’ at site. Assisting operational teams access, use, and manage information in CoreWork, BrightSpot, MyBOS, SW Field App, SW Builder App, WAVE and KaiNexus.
• Identifies, engages, and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders. 
• Identifies, implements, and evaluates the success of continuous improvement activities/initiatives to improve the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of BHP systems and processes. 
• Conducts presentations and facilitates workshops using storytelling to connect, influence and engage the audience.
• Prioritises work effort and resources accordingly. 
• Engages the capabilities of the entire organisation. 
• Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste. 
• Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs.

About You 

• You have prior experience as a Leader or Technical Professional 
• Exposure to mining, maintenance or processing is ideal but experience in other industries that utilise an operating system founded on lean principles would be highly regarded (e.g. manufacturing, health, finance, logistics, etc.) 
• You will have an understanding/exposure to continuous improvement methodologies and organisational change. 
• You will be able to establish credibility as a trusted advisor and through your strong improvement, leadership, coaching and communication skills. 
• You will be comfortable with ambiguity, complexity and delivering outcomes in a matrix environment using your collaboration, engagement, influence, and coaching skills.  
• We value diversity in thinking and this role will leverage your ability get the best from a diverse and inclusive team culture. 

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 [email protected].