Principal Projects Commercial | BHP Chile

About BHP

Welcome to BHP! Here we empower the professional development of all our teams to reach their full potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with exceptional job opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values charter, and where their skills are the key to our success.

Why not you? Why not BHP?

About the role

The purpose of this role is providing leadership in the development and implementation of contracting strategies, standards, processes, systems and plans for a complex capital mega project that will ensure the safe delivery of value maximising investments. It will manage the key internal and external project interfaces, assess and manage the risk and build close relationship with our main collaborators, BHP commitment to inclusion & diversity and whilst HSE remains a priority will recognise the importance of people’s wellbeing.

Main responsabilities:

• Ensures conformance with the BHP Charter, the BHP Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations.

• Provides an overriding commitment to health (including mental health), safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development with relentless focus on lowering risk exposure.

• Provides leadership for the development of the contracting and procurement strategies in an EPCM and EPC models, identifying the interfaces and risks considering the multi-billion dollar project scope; successfully maintains the interface with Supply and Purchasing sub-functions in establishing and executing Project Commercial strategies.

• Project key focal point for Contracts, Procurement and Supply; applies an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance efficiency, drive optimisation, and maximise value.

• Evaluates risk profiles, project drivers, and contracting options to inform the development of contracting strategies, and contracts in alignment with project execution strategies.

• Manages contract execution and analysis to maximise operational and financial performance and mitigate exposure and risk.

• Develops safe project delivery and contractor performance strategies to maximise portfolio value and enhance improvement and innovation.

• Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.

• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.

• Identifies, engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.

• Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.

• Mitigates people, environmental and community risks across the value chain, in alignment with sustainability and public policy.

• Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.

• Engages the capabilities of the entire organization.

Location: Santiago

About You

Relevant tertiary qualifications, preferably in an Engineering discipline (s), Construction Management, Economics, Legal or related discipline; extensive contract management experience; EPCM and EPC contract management experience; 10+ years' experience in projects; a high degree of business acumen with deep understanding of mega projects execution, risks and strategies. 

.

Experience

• All complex mega capital project phases in the field of Contracting & Procurement;
• Managing a mega project portfolio of spend and interfaces
• Knowing what creates value and what levers need to be pushed to successfully execute a mega project;
• Hands on EPCM and EPC development, contract formation and management experience;
• EPCM and EPC Contract terms and conditions negotiation experience;
• Claims prevention and management;
• Offshore experience is a plus;
• Managing/supervising a team of Contracts & Procurement professionals on a mega project;
• Ability to bring people together to gain alignment;
• Ability to interface in a global setting and to drive excellence across the Commercial Project team.
• Demonstrated experience with contract law and contract management;
• Demonstrated advanced written and oral English language proficiency

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