Specialist Health | Jimblebar | FIFO | 5/2/4/3
Australia
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
As a Health Specialist supporting BHP, you will play a key role in delivering exceptional Health performance outcomes across a dynamic, high-performing mining operation. In this role, you will collaborate closely with line leadership, offering expert coaching, strategic influence, and technical guidance on Health risks.
The Health Specialist is responsible for providing technical expertise in injury prevention and injury management activities. Through collaborating with the customer and building strong relationships with key stakeholders to create a culture that prioritises key health activities.
You will also:
- Provide proactive support to line leaders in fulfilling their Health & Safety responsibilities, including risk assessments, field leadership, and compliance with relevant regulations.
- Ensure accurate, transparent, and timely reporting of Health & Safety data.
- Assist in the implementation of Health improvement initiatives aligned with the Integrated Operations Plan (IOP).
- Deliver targeted Health training to operational teams, and verification through BHP’s field leadership practices.
- Champion continuous improvement in health performance by actively engaging with site leaders, promoting effective field verifications.
- Exhibit a strong commitment to building a positive team culture and influencing others through collaboration and leadership.
- Demonstrate a proactive mindset with a continuous drive for innovation and improvement.
About You
This role is ideal for a highly capable and collaborative team player who is passionate about ensuring everyone returns home safely each day. You bring a confident, positive attitude and are a self-motivated professional with proven experience in heavy industry or mining operations.
Formal qualifications in Health, or related fields providing technical expertise in injury prevention and injury management activities.
You will have:
- Tertiary qualifications and proven experience in a health-related discipline (e.g. Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Exercise Physiology, Nursing).
- Working knowledge of relevant Health related legislation across Australia, including Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WHS Act).
- Experience managing workers compensation cases, including effective coordination of treatment and advocating for services to achieve best patient outcomes.
- Effective communication and consultation with employees, contractors, medical and allied health providers, stakeholders, and business partners.
- Skills engaging stakeholders to facilitate the assessment and management of employee and contractor fitness for work, including technical advice in pre-employment and medication management processes.
- Experience delivering and monitoring health strategies and injury and illness prevention initiatives.
- Supporting the delivery of health promotion and encouraging a mentally healthy workforce.
- Possession of a valid C Class Western Australian (or equivalent) driver’s license.
Location
You will be part of the Jimblebar Mine HSS team, working on a fly-in fly-out (FIFO) roster of 5:2 / 4:3 from Perth. This role is available on a full-time basis, with the option for part-time job share. Flexible work arrangements will be considered to support individual needs.
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.