Principal - Safety | Prominent Hill

About the Role:

Prominent Hill is a copper-gold mine, a long-life asset, that is part of the BHP South Australia copper province.  BHP is a global company with operations in Australia, North and South America across 5 different commodities.

As the Principal Safety, you will provide critical input into the development and improvement of a safety framework that enables BHP to deliver on the Charter Values of doing what is right, seeking better ways and making a difference across Prominent Hill.

Location: Prominent Hill, South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 4 days on; 3 days off or 8 days on; 6 days off
Department: Safety
Manager: Superintendent - Safety
Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time 

Applications close: 25 July 2025

In The Role You Will:

• Lead the planning and enhancement of safety standards and facilitate the establishment of Safety procedures and systems.
• Lead, support and facilitate workshops and project manage improvement projects to enhace organisational capability and culture in relation to Safety.
• Provide technical safety expertise in risk management, learning and investigation and safety management systems and practices to improve organisational safety outcomes and performance.
• Ability to create strong customer and stakeholder relationships to better understand their expectations and needs.
• Communicates and role models the importance of having a customer focus to help others take greater accountability.
• Support the development of Operation level strategies and improvement initiatives for material safety issues.
• Monitor performance, analyse data and define improvements for operational and contracting partners to identify emerging safety trends, safety improvements and recognition.
• Provide HSE expertise to line management on risks with Safety aspects and impacts.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting as per business and legislative requirements.
• Lead, coach and participate in field leadership activities to support and provide technical guidance to build a safety leadership culture and enhance understanding of compliance relevant to company and legal requirements.

About You:

You will be a self-motivated professional with a solid record of accomplishment of achieving safety performance through influence, coaching and mentoring.

You will also have:

• Extensive experience in a safety role, mining or heavy industry will be highly regarded.
• Minimum of Cert IV in OHS, tertiary qualification or equivalent industry experience management health, safety or risk, Diploma preferred.
• A passion for safety and a culture of care.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence at multiple levels in an organisation.
• Strong HSE Management System experience, problem solving and data analytical skills.
• Significant experience leading and supporting safety initiatives.
• Valid unrestricted driver's licence. 
• Experience with HS management tools.
• Coaching and mentoring skills with a desire to help people with a lens of continuous improvement.
• Ability to self-motivate, manage priorities and consume data to effectivity deliver safety support.
• Experience in mining industry will be highly regarded.

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.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.  

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