Superintendent Geotechnical - Carrapateena

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

Reporting to the Manager Mine Technical & Technology, you will lead a team supporting the integrity, safety, and geotechnical risk at BHP’s Carrapateena operation. The Geotechnical team is responsible for safely increasing production from our deepening SLC operation while also building a brand-new block cave (and associated infrastructure).

This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a challenging leadership role at an operating caving mine, that is also in the process of expanding to block caving.

Through insight and innovation, you will identify and implement improvement initiatives that enable functional excellence and support business priorities for continuous improvement.  It is essential you can develop and maintain effective working relationships with the operations teams, project teams, and other departments. 

This position is based at Carrapateena on a 4 days on / 3 days off FIFO roster from Adelaide. 

In this role you will:

• Oversee geotechnical risks, and develop and verify ground support standards during the mining of a major chamber underground (transfer chamber)

• Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible safety leader by engaging, developing and coaching your team whilst ensuring an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainability

• Oversee geotechnical risks, and develop and verify ground support standards during the mining of a major chamber underground (transfer chamber)

• Build business partnerships and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders internal and external to the business

• Positively shape culture in alignment with the BHP Charter Values

• Lead and develop a team of geotechnical professionals

• Identify, build and develop team capability through ongoing and regular coaching and development  

• Build effective relationships across departments to support the delivery of improved production

• Encourage and promote continuous improvement by constantly looking for opportunities to improve work practices and procedures

About You

• Geotechnical Engineering experience in an underground metalliferous mines preferred

• Experience in leading teams and with cave mining experience preferred

• Undergraduate qualifications in either Geotechnical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering or Earth Sciences (Geology, Geophysics)

• Implementation of geotechnical processes and systems

• QAQC of ground support systems

• Geotechnical mapping, monitoring systems, ground support calculations / designs and stability analyses

• Establishing and/or maintaining aspects of a geotechnical management system

• Collection & interpretation of geotechnical observations and geological data (structure)

• Experience using mining\geotechnical software (Deswik, MxRap, IMS suite, Leapfrog)

• Demonstrated experience in the creation and growth of engaging, supportive & inspiring team culture

• Experience in the development and delivery of strategic and tactical plans, and management of complex and competing priorities

• Leadership experience and engagement of teams that support high quality and engaged delivery

• Experience implementing continuous improvement strategies with financial and commercial acumen

• The ability to engage and find positive outcomes with internal and external stakeholders

How to Apply

Please apply before 22 February 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. 

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