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 Team

HR is building a new intelligence capability to change how we understand our workforce and make decisions about our people.

Our ambition is to move beyond reporting what has happened. We want to understand why it is happening, what is likely to happen next, and where we should act. That means combining workforce data, behavioural science, advanced analytics and AI to tackle some of the most important questions facing HR and the business.

As part of our Workforce Intelligence team, you will help build this capability and embed it directly into the way HR operates. You will work at the intersection of people, data, technology and decision-making, turning complex workforce questions into intelligence leaders can act on.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys solving hard problems, is technically curious, and wants to help shape how AI and advanced analytics are used in HR.

About the Role

As a Specialist Data Engineer, you will build the data products and engineering foundations that turn HR data into something our Intelligence, Analytics and AI capabilities can reliably use.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will work across data pipelines, transformations, models, metrics and quality controls, taking emerging requirements and turning them into well-engineered capabilities that can be reused and scaled across HR.

You will work closely with Principal Data Engineers and have the opportunity to develop against some challenging engineering problems, including how we create common workforce definitions, make data understandable to AI, automate quality controls and build reusable foundations rather than one-off solutions.

You will:

• Build and maintain robust data pipelines, transformations and reusable data models across HR data.
• Engineer curated data products that can be consumed by analysts, Intelligence Partners, AI applications and digital products.
• Develop and maintain reusable metrics and semantic structures that make workforce data easier to discover, interpret and use consistently.
• Automate data-quality testing, reconciliation and monitoring so that issues can be identified early and resolved systematically.
• Apply good software-engineering practices to data development, including modular design, version control, testing, documentation and deployment.
• Help improve the performance, reliability and maintainability of existing data products as the capability scales.
• Work with senior engineers and users of the data to translate business concepts into practical, maintainable technical solutions.
• Explore new ways of preparing and structuring enterprise data for AI and agent-based applications.

You will have real ownership of what you build. The opportunity is to help turn an emerging capability into an engineering environment where high-quality components can be built once, trusted and used many times.

About You

We are looking for someone who enjoys building things and takes pride in making data reliable, understandable and easy for others to use. You will ideally bring:

• Strong hands-on data engineering experience, including building pipelines, transformations and analytical data models.
• Capability in SQL and experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with Python or another programming language used for data engineering and automation.
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as Git, automated testing, CI/CD and production monitoring.
• An understanding of dimensional, relational or other analytical data-modelling approaches and the judgement to choose an appropriate pattern.
• Experience building data-quality checks and diagnosing problems across complex data flows.
• An interest in semantic modelling, metadata and how shared definitions improve analytics and AI.
• Curiosity about AI and how data needs to be structured differently when the consumer might be an AI agent as well as a person.
• A practical mindset and the ability to work through ambiguity while still producing clean, maintainable engineering solutions.

Deep HR experience isn't required. What matters more is strong engineering capability, curiosity and an interest in building the data foundations behind a new generation of workforce analytics and AI.

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.