Principal Discipline Engineer Electrical/Instrumentation
Australia
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About the Role
Reporting to the Manager Technical Assurance, the Principal Discipline Engineer will support BHP’s Copper South Australia Major Projects team with Electrical and Instrumentation technical expertise in leading engineering strategies, standards and frameworks. This role will ensure the engineering process and design is optimised and enables safe, efficient construction, commissioning and operation.
This position will be full-time (Monday to Friday) based in Adelaide.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Implement Discipline Engineering strategy, plans, processes, and systems for capital projects
- Assure the discipline engineering performed by third parties against fit for purpose discipline standards that meet operational, risk, quality and regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with Project and other Engineering leaders to ensure the provision of appropriately skilled Discipline Engineering resources, with fit for purpose processes and tools are available
- Collaborate with Commissioning and Construction, ensuring engineering is developed to support commissioning and construction methodologies, strategies, and systems
- Drive adoption of Operation’s discipline engineering standards into the scope and/or collaborates with Operations Engineering to create new discipline engineering standards where required
- Integrate and apply internal lessons learned and external best practices across the project with identified opportunities for improvements
- Coach and mentor discipline engineering talent and capability
About You
As the successful applicant you will be able to demonstrate the following:
- Relevant experience in Project Management or site operations
- Demonstrated extensive experience and technical proficiency in electrical and instrumentation engineering
- Ability to engage and influence internal and external stakeholders, consultants and contractors
- Good technical and communication skills, including the ability to analyse data and produce concise reports and presentations
- Previous experience in major projects
- Solutions focused with a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills including the ability to work collaboratively
- Tertiary qualification in Engineering or similar
Applications close 18 August 2025.
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