Superintendent Reliability

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.

Location 

The role will be based at Port Hedland on Residential or FIFO basis offering flexible rosters options.
 

About the Role

Reporting to the Rail Network Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for guiding a team of multi discipline engineers who enhance the Maintenance performance and benchmarking through defect elimination, continuous improvement, strategy and reliability fundamentals.

This role will see you empower teams and build a cohesive group across a broad range of technical areas including track, rail surface, resurface, signals, comms, welding and civil.

Key responsibilities: 

• Drive reliability improvements and the elimination of defects in the end-to-end maintenance system inclusive of defects in parts, procedures, work quality and processes
• Review performance metrics and benchmark performance across the site and other businesses
• Deliver comprehensive insights of reliability data, initiate maintenance strategies and changes to mitigate emerging risks
• Support the development of operating standards and procedures
• Assess life of equipment, infrastructure to evaluate capability and optimisation of maintenance activities
• Develop and optimise strategies that enable safety, reliability and performance to be maximised

About You

As a passionate leader and effective communicator will see you successfully guide and coach your team as well as influence your key stakeholders to ensure the success of our operation.

Your relevant rail industry experience coupled with analytical, problem-solving skills and financial acumen will ensure success in this role.

You will have following skills and experience: 

• Mechanical, Civil or Electrical Engineering degree or Reliability engineering qualification would be highly regarded
• Demonstrated experience in Rail Engineering reliability maintenance programs will be beneficial
• Previous experience or background within Rail, Mining or heavy industry is desirable
• Knowledge of defect elimination and root cause understanding experience coupled with problem solving skills
• Experience developing maintenance strategies and plans
• Exposure to cost reduction strategies with financial and commercial acumen
• Ability to prioritise and effectively manage multiple deliverables across stakeholders
• Foundational management experience and engagement of teams that support high quality and engaged delivery
• Experience with SAP will be advantageous

Applications Close : 13th February 2025

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.