Processing Production Supervisor

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.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive candidate to join our Processing Production team as the Supervisor Processing Production at our South Flank operation.

Reporting to the Superintendent Processing Production, you will be enabled to engage your team of Processing Technicians to safely operate our OHPs and Stockyards to ‘Rock 80+’. This position is central in directing a high performing team toward optimising safety, culture and productivity by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders including IPRO, Supply Chain, Processing A&I, Mining, Fixed Plant Maintenance, and Shutdown Execution teams. 

This is a fantastic career opportunity for a person looking to grow and develop their management skills and play a critical role at South Flank. 

About this Role

In this role you will:

• Foster our positive culture within your team to maintain a focus on identifying opportunities and driving continuous improvement through reduced costs, maximising production, minimising down time and eliminating waste;
• Have an overriding commitment to the sustainability of our inclusive and safety focused workplace culture;
• Build partnerships and maintain strong working relationships with customers and key stakeholders across the operation;
• Support and encourage strong levels of engagement to drive our site safety and performance;
• Coach and mentor your team whilst supporting their development and professional goals;
• Safely and proactively execute short term production plans to maximise equipment utilisation and achieve stretch targets;
• Work closely with Processing Engineers, Processing Coordinators, and Fixed Plant Maintenance teams to ensure optimised, efficient product flow;
• Support and manage the interface with South Flank Operations conducive to efficient stockyard balance machine and train load out utilisation.
• Monitor and report against daily plan and escalate unplanned and non-routine activity or performance to the Superintendent

About You

As the ideal candidate you will have: 
 

• Extensive work experience in a large scale processing plant is essential.  
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills will support you in maintaining cross-departmental engagement and effective communication throughout multiple levels of the business from mining to port. 
• Passion for inclusion and collaboration will help drive and support an already positive workplace environment. 
• Strong people management abilities and be someone who can engage with people from various backgrounds and experience levels and enables the teams to question the norms and unlock potential to grow. 
• To show equal respect to people at all levels and always portray a positive management shadow.
• To liaise with a variety of stakeholders, it is important you are a confident verbal and written communicator.

In addition, your strong problem solving skills, as well as a high level of motivation and drive will assure you are able to support your team in identifying and delivering projects to optimise our operation in terms of Safety, Volume, Cost and Culture.

Location

This role is based at our South Flank operation.  You will reside at Mulla Mulla Village, BHPs flagship camp accommodation, and fly on chartered flights out of our Coondewanna airport.

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.