Manager - HS&SEM | 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.

Being a modern mining company is about our ability to adapt to the changes around us, harness the innovative ideas of our people and collaborate internally and externally to leverage the experience and knowledge of others.  

The Manager HS&SEM provides leadership to a team or teams focused on the strategic management of health, hygiene, security, safety, emergency and HS assurance related issues, processes, provisions and initiatives across BHP. Translates strategy into operational plans for the department.

Location: Prominent Hill, South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 4 days on; 3 days off
Department: HS&SEM Copper SA
Manager: Head of HS&SEM Copper SA
Employment Type: Permanent. 

Applications close: 7 July 2025

In The Role You Will:

• Manages, improves and provides expertise on safety risk management practices to improve organisational safety outcomes and performance. 
• Responds to, manages and provides specialist/functional expertise on health-related risks to uplift organisational capability in health management. 
• Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems. 
• Makes evidence based and strategic decisions in alignment with longer term business objectives. 
• Identifies, engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders. 
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes. 
• Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals. 
• Applies an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance. 
• 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:

• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills with a demonstrated capability to negotiate and influence internal and external stakeholders, including regulators and community groups, at a senior management level.
• Well-developed and professional technical expertise from an influenced practice in the HSE area.
• Tertiary degree in a health, safety, environment or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Detailed knowledge of key concepts, theories and practices related to effective management of HSE related risks.
• Experience in or knowledge of the coal mining legislative environment would also be an advantage.

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