Practice Lead Metallurgy and Processing
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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 role
Join BHP’s global Resource Centre of Excellence (RCoE) as Practice Lead Metallurgy & Processing, where you will provide enterprise-wide leadership across governance, assurance and technical thought leadership.
In this critical senior technical leadership role, you will influence the performance of BHP’s global metallurgical assets—strengthening current outcomes while shaping the future of metallurgical operations to deliver material, long-term performance improvement.
As the Practice Lead Processing and Metallurgy, you will be accountable for:
- Assurance of metallurgical 2-year budgets and Life of Asset plans
- Providing thought leadership to BHP Senior Leaders on metallurgical strategies, challenges and recommended plans to address them.
- Identifying and implementing systems that support the capability development of metallurgical professionals globally.
- Providing technical governance across BHP’s major projects through Independent Peer Reviews (IPR’s) and Execution Phase Reviews (EPR’s).
- Delivering technical and due diligence support to Business Development for potential new investments.
- Ensuring that RCoE metallurgical deliverables conform with BHP risk management process including the execution and verification of critical controls.
- Ensuring that RCoE metallurgical deliverables do not conflict with compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory obligations.
- Engaging with Studies and Projects teams to provide technical guidance on sampling, test work and metallurgical flowsheet design through assurance and governance processes.
- Providing technical coaching and support to site Operations teams to ensure competency in the execution of metallurgical practices.
- Ensuring that subject matter expertise and technical knowledge in metallurgy and process engineering are shared and continuously available across the organisation.
In this role, you can be based in Denver, USA; Santiago, Chile; Toronto, Canada, or in Brisbane, Perth or Adelaide in Australia.
About you
You bring deep technical credibility and leadership experience in metallurgy and process engineering across operations, technical and project environments. You have a strong track record of working effectively in complex, multi-disciplinary settings, influencing outcomes across diverse stakeholders and global teams.
Your experience spans the full lifecycle of metallurgical assets, including their operation, maintenance and optimisation within a mining environment. You are recognised for your ability to identify, assess and reduce material risks, strengthening asset performance and supporting safe, reliable operations.
Importantly, you operate with a strategic mindset—able to look beyond immediate horizons to shape long-term direction. You develop clear, forward-looking strategies and communicate them with impact, enabling alignment and driving enterprise-level outcomes.
A tertiary qualification in Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or Chemistry Degree is 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.
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Welcoming qualified applicants through to 11.59 AEST, 21 June 2026