Principal Global Geometallurgy | Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, or Santiago
Australia
About BHP
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Come and be a part of this success.
About the Role
Are you ready to shape the future of geometallurgy at a global scale?
BHP is seeking a visionary and technically accomplished Principal Global Geometallurgy to lead best practices the integration of mineralogical, geochemical, and material property data to inform resource extraction and processing strategies. You will play a pivotal role in supporting the Practice Lead Global Resource Knowledge to ensure robust, risk-based geoscience models that guide decisions across the full resource lifecycle—from definition to closure.
Reporting to the Practice Lead Global Resource Knowledge, your key accountabilities include:
- Provide thought leadership in multidisciplinary rock mass characterisation across extraction, processing, and closure.
- Design and implement standards for geometallurgical inputs into resource and reserve models.
- Deliver second-line assurance for geometallurgical programs and models.
- Build geoscientist capability in developing geometallurgical models with quantified uncertainty.
- Foster strong, trusted relationships across BHP Operations, Planning, and Technical teams.
- Identify knowledge gaps and maintain research roadmaps to guide R&D investment.
- Lead and influence geometallurgical research initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Represent BHP as a global leader in geometallurgy within the technical community, including universities, research institution and professional organisation.
About You
You bring a unique blend of technical depth, strategic thinking, and leadership. You have:
- Extensive experience in geoscience, metallurgy, or process engineering across the resource value chain, from resource delineation through to closure.
- A tertiary qualification in Geoscience, Metallurgy, or Process Engineering.
- A proven track record of mentoring and coaching geoscientists and/or metallurgists.
- Demonstrated success in leading innovative, risk-based modelling initiatives.
- Deep technical expertise in geometallurgy and its application in resource and reserve models.
- A history of influencing research directions through technical thought leadership.
- The ability to rapidly adapt and apply scientific concepts across disciplines.
Highly desirable:
- Postgraduate degree (MSc/PhD) in geoscience or resource engineering.
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.
Location and Roster
The role can be based in Australia corporate offices in Perth, Brisbane, Adeliade, or in the Chile corporate office in Santiago.
You will be working on Monday to Friday roster with 3-2-1 arrangement. Three days from the office, two days from home, one of those days must be a Monday or Friday.
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Application close on Sunday, 29 June 2025
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.