Program Manager - Studies | BHP Chile
Chile
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About the Role
The Program Manager (Studies) role provides leadership to the study team, focussed on the safe and efficient delivery of projects through their lifecycle in line with BHP standards and requirements, within budget, scope and schedule to optimise value for BHP. Translates strategy into operational plans for the Portfolio of the Pillar.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensures that the project team conduct benchmarking, implement prioritisation methodologies and identifies key investment drivers to effectively manage key requirements across the portfolio.
- Leads team to identify opportunities to optimise value, manage associated risks and apply Optimised With/Optimised Without framework principles to create and preserve maximum value from projects across BHP.
- Identifies and assesses risks on a Portfolio level, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
- Makes evidence based and strategic decisions in alignment with long term business objectives.
- Makes decisions based on value drivers and boundaries of an opportunity to determine if it is worth further investment.
- Facilitates activities and inputs with stakeholders to ensure high quality change management, making sure that key assumptions are competitive and realistic.
- Leads the Study team to execute the selection and definition phases studies considering value creation investments and assessing material risks and issues.
- Validate inputs to 5YR Plan objectives and budget, driving performance and implementation accordingly with Portfolio.
- Ensures an environment in which internal lessons learned, and external best practices are part of the operational processes and manages the measurement and continuous improvement of performance, recommending any changes required to identify capital efficiency initiatives and productivity improvements.
About you
- Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Project Management, or related disciplines.
- Postgraduate studies in Business/Finance or Project Management.
- Experience in management of a portfolio of projects.
- At least 15 years working on mining industry (Required).
- At least 10 years in project management and/or project study development (Required).Desirable experience in tailings projects.
- Effective and highly influential diverse stakeholder engagement including an ability to constructively challenge ideas and build trusted relationships.
- Capability in building and developing diverse, high performance teams.
- Strategic and analytical thinker that demonstrates business acumen, with the ability to focus and prioritise critical deliverables to provide timely insights to stakeholders.
We Support a Diverse Workforce
At BHP, we adhere to Law 21,015 on Inclusion.
We know that diversity strengthens us. That is why we are focused on creating a more diverse workforce that represents the communities we operate and live in, ensuring a work environment where every person is included and treated with respect.
In this sense, we are committed to conducting a fair, equitable, and accessible selection process for all. If you have any disability, please email inclusion@bhp.com to adjust our selection process and provide the necessary support.