Superintendent SEM Eastern Mines
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
Step into a role where every day brings purpose, empowerment, and impact. As the Superintendent Security & Emergency Management (SEM), you will be the driving champion behind protecting people, operations, and communities across the Eastern WAIO region. This is your opportunity to guide a high performing, diverse team and shape the future of SEM capability across Jimblebar and Newman Operations.
Working FIFO from Perth, you’ll partner with operational leaders, Health & Safety teams, law enforcement, local communities, and emergency management organisations building strong relationships that enable safe, resilient, and high-performing sites.
If you’re passionate about leading people, elevating safety culture, and improving security and emergency response outcomes, this role puts you at the centre of it all.
In this role you will:
- Provide energising guidance, expert support, and real-time coaching across operations and SEM teams
- Build a confident, capable team who thrive under your mentorship and deliver exceptional service to the business
- Champion a culture of performance, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Enable the uplift of site security and emergency response capability—ensuring our teams are prepared, skilled, and confident
- Support enhancements to incident response, ensuring rapid, effective, and coordinated actions when it matters most
- Bring SEM best practice to life across multiple operations
- Use BHP’s risk management framework to identify risks early, influence decisions, and strengthen site resilience
- Shape safe and productive outcomes by embedding a risk-aware mindset across every layer of the operation
- Promote SEM to the forefront of the BHP Operating System (BOS) by integrating key routines, insights, and performance drivers
- Support operational leaders to achieve SEM KPIs through disciplined planning, execution, and review cycles
- Maintain strong system design and ensure SEM processes are fit-for-purpose, accessible, and future-ready
- Champion the four safety basics and inspire a safety-first culture across all SEM activities.
- Collaborate widely with Health, Hygiene, Security, Emergency Management and Safety teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality SEM outcomes
- Build productive partnerships across internal and external stakeholders, strengthening community and emergency management networks.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have a proven passion for safety and a culture of care. You will also have:
An overriding commitment to BHPs Charter Values;
- Experience in leading teams either directly or indirectly
- Passion for creating an engaging, supportive & inspiring culture
- Demonstrated commitment to achieving proactive outcomes
- Flexibility and willingness to travel to sites across the WAIO portfolio
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence at multiple levels in team, with both internal and external parties
- Forward thinking and proactive work style
- A proven ability to develop and implement strategic and tactical plans
- An advanced understanding of BHP H&S standards and systems, as well relevant legislation
Formal qualifications and/or equivalent experience in health and safety or related discipline such as science or business.
Extensive, senior-level experience within the security, emergency services, mining or resources sector (or equivalent).
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.