Principal Digital - Pit to Customer

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 Digital

Digital is a bold team, driving BHP's edge in the digital space. We nurture creativity, innovation, and diverse thinking to solve major business challenges. In our dynamic, hands-on and highly energising environment, you will define problems, drive meaningful change, and be held accountable to deliver sustainable solutions. If you are deeply curious, passionate about change and committed to learning, join us to make a lasting impact.

About the Role

This role reports to the Delivery Manager and supports initiation, development and execution of sub-domain portfolio initiatives. It is designed for a high-performing, adaptive individual who thrives on solving complex problems and driving impactful change across wide-range of stakeholders. Through asset centricity and obsession with value delivery, the role is responsible for consistent and structured delivery across lifecycles of projects, to drive adoption, strengthen process design, and build governance maturity across the portfolio.

Key accountabilities include:  

• Drive Pit to Customer initiatives through the initiative lifecycle, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and digital process governance.
• Facilitation of workshops, undertake structured opportunity framing, data analysis, and problem-solving engagements to lead teams through asset needs / challenges and translating into digital opportunities.
• Identify, evaluate and recommend technologies to support digital use-cases
• Ability to collaborate with technology partners and Asset customers to ensure effective delivery of digital solutions and value  
• Provide PMO support to accelerate initiative delivery, including business case framing and valuation, technical and stakeholder management, and change management to support user adoption.
• Maintain a wide network of impact, coordinate across stakeholders and leadership to manage risks, align plans, and support successful initiative delivery.
• Reporting and presentations for executive leadership audience

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have a tertiary qualification in engineering, commerce or similar. Experience with WAIO supply chain is highly advantageous.  

• Experience in automation technologies or digital project delivery, with a strong understanding of how to integrate digital solutions into operational environments is highly advantageous.
• Deeply curious and thrive in fast-paced environments.
• A strong problem-solving mindset, using data, creativity, and systems thinking to navigate complexity and drive meaningful outcomes.  
• Passionate about change and transformation, with a track record of influencing teams and leaders to deliver measurable results.  
• Excellent technical and business acumen with structured and critical thinking in complex decision making, opportunity framing and investment decision analysis.
• Focus on delivery, translating insights into action and following through to achieve sustainable outcomes.  
• Highly collaborative, proven ability to build, grow and manage relationships across technical and business teams, including senior and executive stakeholders.  
• Ability to quickly adapt and apply integrative thinking to develop strategic advice, deliver briefings on complex issues and be alert to risks and opportunities.
• Ability to cope with multiple priorities in a rapidly changing environment. 

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.