Principal Maintenance Strategy Governance | MECoE | Adelaide
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 MECoE
BHP’s Maintenance and Engineering Centre of Excellence (MECoE) brings together a passionate and forward-thinking team committed to setting, achieving, and sustaining world-class maintenance standards across our global operations. We value and welcome diverse perspectives and experiences, empowering you to make a meaningful impact on our business.
In this role, you’ll leverage cutting-edge tools, technologies, and innovative methodologies to drive real value—shaping best practices, transforming services, and supporting our people in delivering continuous improvement.
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Maintenance Strategy Governance to join our team in Adelaide, supporting our Copper South Australia Assets.
The Maintenance Strategy Governance (MSG) team delivers value through the development and optimisation of maintenance strategies that balance risk, cost, and equipment performance. We work closely with site-based reliability and maintenance teams to achieve exceptional performance today and tomorrow for the Assets we support.
Reporting to the Copper South Australia Manager Maintenance Strategy Governance, your key accountabilities include:
- Strategy Development: Develop and optimise Fixed Plant (Processing Plant equipment) maintenance strategies to manage risk associated with failure modes, incorporating feedback from actual failure data to continuously improve strategy effectiveness.
- Defect Elimination: Facilitate the elimination of defects, particularly those associated with large-scale or chronic trigger events, to enhance asset reliability and performance.
- Program Leadership: Lead Maintenance Strategy Governance and Asset Improvement programs aimed at enhancing governed maintenance strategies and driving long-term value.
- Technical Expertise: Act as a subject matter expert in maintenance strategy management and defect elimination, providing guidance and support across the business.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong partnerships with stakeholders across Maintenance and the broader business to embed a culture of defect elimination and promote best-in-class reliability practices.
- Safety and Field Leadership: Identify opportunities for safety improvements and actively participate in field leadership activities to reinforce a strong safety culture.
- Effective Communication: Communicate clearly and effectively with technical and operational stakeholders to drive alignment and deliver successful improvement outcomes.
- Capability Development: Identify technical capability gaps and provide guidance to close them, supporting continuous improvement in asset performance.
About You
As a successful candidate you will possess the following:
- Recognized tertiary or trade qualifications, complemented by hands-on or consulting experience in maintenance within the oil and gas, mining, or processing sectors.
- Proven proficiency in Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), including methodologies such as FMECA, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Asset Performance Management (APM), Downtime Accounting Systems (DAS), and Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) like 1SAP.
- Experience in Fixed Plant (Processing Plant Equipment) maintenance is desirable.
- Exposure to data mining and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques is highly regarded.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organization and convey complex technical concepts clearly and confidently.
- A collaborative mindset with a commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
- You demonstrate a strong safety focus, a drive for continuous improvement, and a passion for achieving exceptional outcomes.
- Your leadership presence inspires others, cultivates innovation, and reinforces a culture of safety.
- A dedication to capability development through active coaching and mentoring, playing a pivotal role in uplifting team performance and knowledge.
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Application close on Wednesday, 4 June 2025
About Our Process
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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.