Principal Global Mine Planning | Adelaide or Brisbane
Australia
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
• Communicate regularly with all assets and functions involving mine planning – typically Planning Managers and Superintendents. Focus on understanding and supporting significant mine planning issues and initiatives in assets, finding solutions, and where no solution exists, driving the development of solutions that are globally applicable.
• Promote mine planning as the vehicle that supports, collates, and drives forward all technical disciplines and asset optionality (bottom-up and fully informed mine planning).
• Promote and enable front-end loading of the capital allocation plan cycle (CAP) – particularly best practice enterprise optimisation.
• Scope, lead, execute, and deliver high value, global projects to improve mine planning.
• Provide assurance on all global mine planning standards and guidelines.
• Identify and communicate significant gaps between mine planning current and best practice.
• Provide technical support for independent peer reviews (IPRs) and globally significant mine planning projects, studies, and reviews.
• Second line of defence assurance activities for mine planning as part of the BHP risk management framework, support the third line as required.
• Represent and promote BHP externally as a leader in mine planning.
About You
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in mine planning and business analysis.
• Demonstrated deep technical knowledge of mine planning as an integrated activity with all other technical disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or influence diverse groups of highly skilled mine planning professionals, including significant site and corporate experience.
• Demonstrated successful communication of complex issues and influencing positive change.
• Ability to work in global teams.
• Demonstrated involvement in economic modelling and business analysis of minerals assets.
• Underground metalliferous mine planning experience (caving exposure highly regarded),
• Evidence of commitment to learning.
• Coal mine planning experience
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.
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