Principal Pit to Customer | BHP Chile
Chile
About BHP
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Come and be a part of this success
The challenge ahead
Reporting to the Delivery Manager, you will support the initiation, development and execution of sub‑domain portfolio initiatives across the Pit to Customer value chain. This role is designed for a high‑performing, adaptive individual who thrives in complexity and is motivated by delivering meaningful, measurable outcomes.
You will work across the full initiative lifecycle, applying asset‑centric thinking and a strong focus on value delivery. By driving adoption, strengthening process design and uplifting governance maturity, you will help ensure consistent and structured delivery across a diverse digital portfolio. Collaboration and flexibility are central to this role, requiring close engagement with assets, technology partners and senior stakeholders to translate operational challenges into scalable digital opportunities.
A core focus of this role will be the Leaching process. You will act as the digital lead for Leaching, identifying and shaping initiatives, defining their business cases, determining the best way to deliver them, and growing a dedicated portfolio of Leaching initiatives while connecting the different groups across the organisation working in this space.
Main responsabilities
- Drive Pit to Customer digital initiatives end‑to‑end, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and digital process governance.
- Facilitate workshops and lead structured opportunity framing, data analysis and problem‑solving engagements to identify asset needs and challenges.
- Translate operational requirements into clear, value‑focused digital use cases and initiatives.
- Identify, evaluate and recommend technologies that enable effective digital solutions within operational environments.
- Collaborate closely with technology partners and asset stakeholders to support effective delivery and value realisation.
- Rapidly assess emerging digital solutions and vendor proposals against operational context to determine fit, feasibility and value potential.
- Provide PMO support to accelerate delivery, including business case development, valuation, technical coordination, stakeholder engagement and change management to support user adoption.
- Build and maintain a strong network across the organisation, coordinating with leaders and stakeholders to manage risks, align plans and support successful outcomes.
- Prepare clear reporting and presentations for senior and executive leadership audiences.
Leaching portfolio focus
- Lead the digital agenda for the Leaching process (from stacking and irrigation through solution management to SX‑EW), acting as the go‑to digital partner for Leaching operations and technical teams.
- Identify and prioritise digital opportunities across the Leaching value chain, grounded in process understanding, operational data and asset needs (e.g. recovery, leach cycle times, irrigation and solution management, water and reagent consumption, cathode quality).
- Define robust business cases for Leaching initiatives, quantifying value, costs, risks and key assumptions to support investment decisions.
- Shape and structure initiatives from concept to delivery‑ready, including scope, success metrics, stakeholders, data and technology requirements, and roadmap.
- Determine the most effective delivery approach for each initiative (e.g. in‑house build, vendor solution, pilot or proof of value, scale‑up), considering technical maturity, commercial model, asset readiness and change management needs.
- Grow and sustain a prioritised pipeline of Leaching initiatives, ensuring the portfolio remains aligned with asset and strategic objectives.
- Connect and collaborate with the different groups working on Leaching across the organisation (asset operations, processing and technical teams, centres of excellence, technology and innovation teams, and external partners) to align efforts, avoid duplication and leverage synergies.
What we expect from you
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, mining, technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in digital project delivery and/or automation, integrating digital solutions into operational environments.
- Strong problem-solving skills, combining data-driven analysis, systems thinking, and creativity.
- Deep understanding of mining operational processes across the pit to customer value chain is essential, with the ability to credibly engage operators, engineers and asset leaders on process-level challenges.
- Specific knowledge of the Leaching process (heap and dump leaching, solution management, SX‑EW) and its key value drivers is highly desirable and will be considered a distinguishing factor, ideally including experience identifying, building business cases for and delivering improvement or digital initiatives in Leaching operations.
- Proven track record leading change and influencing teams and leaders to deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Solid technical and commercial acumen, with experience in opportunity evaluation and investment decision-making.
- Results-driven, with the ability to translate insights into sustainable actions.
- Proven ability to rapidly evaluate digital solutions and vendor proposals, balancing technical, commercial and operational judgment to make clear value assessments.
- Availability to travel monthly to local assets; intermediate-advanced English for global collaboration.
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.
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