Manager Production | Mt Arthur Coal | Muswellbrook
Australia
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 here
About the Role
As the Production Manager at NSW Energy Coal’s Mt Arthur Mine you will be a key member of our leadership team with one of the largest operational portfolios.
Mt Arthur, continues to work through our ‘path to 2030’ with tight integration between our BAU operations and the Transition Project. Our priority will continue to be safe and sustainable operations, our people, and positively impacting the communities that we operate in, here in the Hunter Valley.
This residential opportunity presents a unique and challenging environment to lead a large team through an important phase of this operations’ history, by achieving safe and sustainable production, sustaining high performance levels, and leading our people through a critical phase as the BHP portfolio strategy continues to progress.
In this role you will:
- Be accountable for delivering safe, stable, and reliable operations for the Production department which includes drill and blast, haulage (dispatch teams), mine services, training execution teams and operational crews
- Have accountability for delivering short, medium and long-term objectives and key performance measures across health & safety and production
- Review the risk profile for the Production teams - ensuring and verifying material risk controls are appropriately designed, deployed and effective
- Sets consistent expectations, ways of working and execution of production processes to enable compliance to plan and performance
- Identify, build, and develop production talent and capability across the team to ensure best in class talent retention and development
- Be responsible for full departmental cost control through effective management of people, resources and assets
About You
- Tertiary qualified with previous mining experience
- Highly proficient in translating and executing long and medium-term plans and driving execution performance through multiple production teams,
- Highly capable problem solver who demonstrates thought leadership and informed judgement,
- Proven in empowering teams to make effective decisions aligned to the asset’s strategic direction
- Foundational leadership experience and engagement of teams that support high quality and engaged delivery
- Experience implementing continuous improvement strategies with financial and commercial acumen
- Is able to connect and live the BHP Values of Do the Right Thing, Seek Better Ways and Make a difference
On Offer to You
This is a unique opportunity to have a rewarding career in a sought-after lifestyle location. Mt Arthur is a large, open-cut truck shovel operation, providing you with an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to technical problems.
Base in the scenic Hunter Valley, you will be minutes away from world-class restaurants and vineyards and a short distance away from the iconic beaches of Newcastle and Central Coast.
You will benefit from a rewarding career path and an excellent remuneration package inclusive of competitive salary, performance bonus, employee share options and a relocation package to take up a residential role in the Hunter Valley.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people.
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.