Supervisor Maintenance | Operations Services | WA
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
BHP has established Operations Services – a team of employees who will provide production and maintenance services that have previously been performed by external contractors.
We are investing in our team to take your skills and career to places you never thought possible. This is an exciting time for BHP. Are you ready to make your place?
As a Maintenance Supervisor, you will play a pivotal role in leading a team primarily composed of trade assistants and qualified tradespeople. Your core responsibility will be to ensure the safe, efficient, and high-performance delivery of mechanical maintenance activities, with a strong focus on conveyor systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Inspecting, maintaining, and replacing soft and hard skirts to ensure optimal material containment.Maintaining and servicing belt cleaners/scrapers to support continuous and efficient conveyor operation.
- Providing hands-on support and guidance to your team, ensuring all tasks are completed safely and to a high standard.
- Driving a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance maintenance practices and equipment reliability.
- Championing safety, compliance, and operational excellence across all maintenance activities.
- Overseeing mechanical conveyor maintenance, including the replacement of bulk and ad-hoc conveyor rollers.
You will be a key leader in fostering a proactive and collaborative team environment, supporting your crew through coaching, mentoring, and development opportunities. Your ability to lead by example and promote a culture of accountability and innovation will be essential to your success in this role.
About You
You will have a desire to shape culture, lead a team and improve business processes. Your background in either a similar type of position or environment will see you well placed with the required capability to step into this opportunity. Your ability to communicate is of the upmost importance as well as your relationships skills. It is essential that you demonstrate impeccable safety behaviours and being safety focused is the main part of your everyday.
Reporting to the Superintendent Maintenance, you will also:
Foster a positive & productive working relationship and culture between the team members and with other departments;
- Ensure HSEC standards, hazard identification and management are applied by departmental personnel;
- Continue to identify opportunities to improve the performance of people, processes and systems;
- Improve fleet performance through quality maintenance practices;
- Have sound business acumen;
- Build cross functional relationships with other areas to support the delivery of maintenance;
- Have an understanding of SAP;
- Coach, review and develop non-trades and trades personnel to ensure their skills are optimised to their full potential;
- A trade qualification / Experience in Conveyor Maintenance is highly desirable however not essential.
Working with supportive leaders, this is an exciting opportunity to help build a supportive and progressive culture. Your ability to communicate and engage with your reports and be a champion for change will help you deliver on your commitments and will position you well for future career opportunities.
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.
Please note as part of this recruitment process the successful applicant will need to conduct a Queensland legislated coal mine workers’ health assessment.
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.