Superintendent Control Operations | Olympic Dam | 8/6 Roster
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.
About the Role
Reporting to the Manager Mine Planning, the role of Superintendent Control Operations will be based at Olympic Dam and offered on an 8/6 Wednesday to Wednesday FIFO roster (ex-Adelaide) or residential at Roxby Downs. We are open to discussing flexible working opportunities.
Ongoing accountabilities for this role include:
- Ensuring an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development.
- Lead and coach field leadership activities, participate in safety meetings, investigate and manage key safety investigations relevant to the team
- Positively shape culture in alignment with the BHP Charter Values
- Lead process improvement initiatives to support customer group by leveraging BOS practices
- Taking responsibility for identifying and resolving systemic issues, and for assessing the potential impact on production, plant and equipment
- Overseeing the day-to-day running of the Control Operations Mine team.
- Providing leadership to Control Operations Mine team and empowering them to support performance of the mine
- Interfacing regularly with Mining Operations and Scheduling to maximise ore to surface and production efficiencies
- Monitoring operating costs ensuring that spend is controlled to the allocated budget
- Reporting and investigating any significant deviation from the operational plans
About You
- An understanding and practice continuous improvement lean principles
- Demonstrated change leadership experience
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Problem solving skills
- Navigating ambiguity
- Previous mining operations experience preferred
- Experience or familiarity with control rooms or control centres would be beneficial
Applications close 5pm Friday 15th May 2026.
About Our Process
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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.
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