Medium Term Planning 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.

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. This is where you will play a pivotal role – in the planning, design and maintenance of Prominent Hill’s mine production.  

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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
Department: Technical Services
Manager: Senior Medium Term Planning Engineer
Employment Type: Permanent. 

Applications close: 20 January 2025

In This Role You Will:

• Be working collaboratively with the mining team to generate and communicate mine designs that achieve safe and efficient production.
• Assist in the generation of Mine Development Plans (MDPs) for all Capital and Operating development designs.
• Assist in the generation of Stope Notes/Block Notes to ensure safe production in line with mining schedule.
• Follow the underground mine planning process to ensure safety standards, regulations, and best practice mine design criteria are met and maintained.
• Support the maintaining of QA/QC on the mine planning standards and processes.
• Audit and continually improve mine planning processes and systems.
• Maintain a mine design tracking tool which is used to identify bottlenecks in the mine schedule.  
• Guide and communicate frequently with operational teams to ensure milestones are achieved on time within scope and budget.

About You:

• Significant experience working in underground, hard rock, metalliferous mining.
• Exposure to working in a sub-level open stoping mine and underground experience.
• Demonstrated experience in mine design and scheduling in sub-level open stoping.
• Motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to work in high pressure and dynamic environments.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships.
• Actively promote safe production.
• Ability to work independently in office and underground.
• MS Office, INX and Deswik suite software experience essential.

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