Specialist Cost Control - Surface Maintenance | Adelaide Office | Monday to Friday Roster

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About the Role

We are seeking a Reliability Finance Partner to enable strong financial decision‑making across asset reliability, maintenance strategy, and shutdown execution within Copper South Australia.

This role is embedded within the Reliability function and acts as the primary financial and cost reporting partner to the Reliability Superintendent. You will translate financial, cost, and execution data into clear insights that support asset health, risk management, and lifecycle value optimisation.

Rather than focusing solely on cost control, this role ensures that maintenance and shutdown investment is aligned with reliability priorities, defect elimination strategies, and critical asset risk. You will provide trusted reporting, challenge assumptions, and improve visibility of where maintenance spend is creating — or eroding — reliability value.

This role will be based in our Adelaide office on a Monday to Friday roster with flexibility. There will be occasional site travel required.

In this role you will:

• Partner with the Reliability Superintendent by providing accurate, timely, and reliability‑focused financial insights, enabling informed decisions that balance cost, risk, and asset performance.
• Act as the dedicated finance partner to the Superintendent Reliability.
• Provide regular, structured reporting that links maintenance spend to reliability outcomes,
• Support reliability leadership forums with clear cost, variance, and trend insights.
• Enable value‑based conversations around, Defect elimination investment, Bad actor strategies, Planned vs reactive maintenance, Shutdown and outage scope quality
• Prepare and own reliability cost reporting across Shutdowns and outages, Weekly maintenance execution, Defect elimination and reliability initiatives
• Track and analyse Budget vs actuals, Planned vs emergent scope, Rework, repeat failure, and execution inefficiencies
• Highlight cost drivers that indicate underlying reliability issues, not just financial variance.
• Improve data quality to ensure reliability decisions are based on credible financial information.

• Support shutdown readiness by reviewing scope cost profiles through a reliability and risk lens.
• Participate in shutdown milestone reviews and post‑event assessments.
• Provide insights into Labour mix and efficiency (ELR/ILR), Contractor and PO utilisation, Cost impacts of late scope changes or defects carried into execution
• Support lessons learned by linking cost outcomes to reliability drivers.

• Ensure maintenance and reliability spend aligns with approved governance and work management standards.
• Review contractor charges, SES claims, invoices, and warranty recoveries for accuracy and value delivery.
• Identify opportunities to Remove low‑value or duplicate work, Optimise scope without increasing reliability risk, Improve planning quality to reduce execution waste
• Support audit and assurance activities related to shutdowns and maintenance investment.

• Partner closely with: Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Execution, Planning & Scheduling, Finance Business Partners, Supply & Procurement
• Act as a translator between technical reliability discussions and financial outcomes.
• Provide clear, consistent cost communication where asset performance decisions are being made.

About You

• Experience in finance, cost control, reliability support, or maintenance execution in an asset‑intensive environment.
• Strong ability to link cost, risk, and asset performance, not just report numbers.
• Comfortable influencing senior leaders and challenging scope or assumptions constructively.
• Strong analytical capability with high attention to data quality and integrity.
• Confident working in dynamic shutdown and execution environments.
• SAP and work management system experience (highly regarded).

Applications close 5pm Wednesday 29th April 2026.

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.

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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.