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Principal Value Analytics | Brisbane

Date:  13 Nov 2025
Job Posting End Date: 
Job Country: 

Australia

Job State/Province:  Queensland
Job Location/Region:  Brisbane

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

BHP’s Value Engineering (VE) team is focused on maximising value-adding opportunities across BHP by leveraging skills in the Technical Function to deliver incremental, step change and innovative solutions. 

 
Reporting to the Manager Value Analytics for Minerals Australia, you will be part of a team of enthusiastic data practitioners working on performance improvement projects that focus on maximising value opportunities and performance across the value chain, through the application of data, operational and engineering expertise. You will be working collaboratively alongside site operations, business subject matter experts, data analytics professionals and other VE team members. 

 
In this role, you will: 

 

  • Provide technical team leadership 
  • Lead analysis projects 
  • Build working relationships with the BHP data community 
  • Lead the identification of business requirements to address stakeholder problems 
  • Document, explain and present analysis solutions to both technical and senior business stakeholders 
  • Mentor other team members in technical leadership 

 

The successful candidate will be able to work within a team environment, and will possess strong problem-solving skills, a collaborative mindset and be passionate about delivering extraordinary results with a focus on safety and continuous improvement. 

 

This is a Brisbane based role working Monday to Friday. Flexible work arrangements will be offered. 

About You

We are ideally seeking candidates who can demonstrate the following: 

 

  • Experience providing technical leadership to your team to help solve problems and streamline analysis. 
  • Experience delivering performance improvement solutions for business problems. This includes applying data analysis, statistical analysis, and machine learning techniques to generate business value while maintaining a practical and strategic focus 
  • Experience in applying industry standard analysis tools and approaches. This includes data platforms, programming languages and data analysis technologies 
  • Strong presentation and communication skills. You can influence stakeholders within different areas of expertise 
  • Experience in Mining, resource industry or equivalent heavy industries 

 

Other highly regarded skills include experience in: 

 

  • Engineering consulting and/or management consulting 
  • Managing projects 
  • Agile teams

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.