Principal Discipline Engineer Process | WA Major Projects | Perth
Australia
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About the Role
Reporting to the Manager Standards and Technical, the Principal Discipline Engineer is a Perth based role providing SME (subject matter expert) technical support to Major Projects. The Principal Discipline Engineer is a member of the Standards and Technical Team, will work across a number of port and mine projects, working closely with the Project Engineers who have overall engineering responsibility for their respective projects. The projects are typically at different stages from concept to detailed design and execution. The role will extend into the project delivery (EXE phase) and handover phases where occasional site travel (Pilbara Region) may be required. Throughout the project delivery (EXE) and handover phases, the Principal Discipline Engineer will be required to support and address project delivery (construction and commissioning) engineering issues.
The successful applicant will join a team of SME Discipline Engineers and become a team member who is regarded for their technical knowledge and supplies cooperative, proactive and solution-focused project input.
At the project study level, provide discipline engineering subject matter expert leadership and direction to all the functions and study lead/manager throughout all design phases. The Principal Discipline Engineer will be expected to add value in all project areas including developing concepts, technical compliance, risk evaluation and mitigation, value optimisation, safety, and continuous improvement. Also be cognisant of the impact of their decisions to maintain project requirements including schedule, budget and quality.
Core Accountabilities
- Provides SME input into the Basis of Design (BoD), Process Design Criteria (PDC) and Scopes of Work (SoW), including identifying relevant BHP standards and design deliverables.
- Provides technical governance by reviewing Engineering Service Provider (ESP) design deliverables to ensure compliance with statutory requirements, Australian Standards and BHP engineering design criteria and standards.
- Proactively identifies the following and suggest solutions & improvements (within their respective discipline): design performance & quality issues, constructability, operability and maintainability issues, value add opportunities & works closely and directly with ESP counterparts from concept through to detailed design
- Challenges ESP and internal stakeholder thinking to ensure designs are lean and fit for purpose
- Contributes to risk reviews and design reviews
- Ensures the review of project design deliverables are prioritised to be consistent with overall project priorities
- Monitors their own workload and offers or asks for assistance as workloads fluctuate
- Supports tender submission reviews
- Answers Technical Queries and Requests for Information
- Provide SME expertise in the Sustainability in Design process e.g. HSECCOMS – Health Safety Environment Community Constructability, Operability and Maintainability reviews, HAZIDs and HAZOPs
- Contributes to the capture of project lessons learnt from the development & delivery of executed projects for incorporation into continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborates with Commissioning and Construction to ensure that engineering is developed to be able to support commissioning and construction methodologies, strategies and systems.
- Support Ops readiness by providing engineering related data in order to enable the effective handover and transition to Operations.
- Support the technical development of lesser experienced engineers.
About You
Ideally, the Principal Discipline Engineer has
• Tertiary qualification within fields such as Engineering Science, Metallurgical, Chemical or Mineral Processing Engineering.
• Project design experience within the consulting, mining or heavy industry working for owners/operators and/or engineering consultancies.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all Australian Codes & associated Design Manuals
• Significant technical proficiency across process engineering discipline across lifecycle (study, design, installation, commissioning, operation).
• Proven experience in iron ore processing plants including design, interpretation of test work results, plant layouts, process design criteria, trade-off studies and developing process flow diagrams.
• Experience in planning, developing and managing metallurgical testwork programs of significant scale.
• Relationship management capability inclusive of successfully influencing and leading successful change in a challenging and complex environment.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen as well as managing technical risk and governance for successful delivery of projects safely, on time and on budget.
• Ability to critically review designs and work proactively and collaboratively with external consultants
Applications close 21st January
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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