Tailings Engineer | Prominent Hill

About the Role:

Prominent Hill is a copper-gold mine, a long-life asset, that is part of the BHP South Australia copper province.  BHP is a global company with operations in Australia, North and South America across 5 different commodities.

As part of the BHP Asset Management and Engineering team the Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF) Engineer is accountable for the assurance of the integrity of BHP's water and tailings storage facilities through engineering governance to manage the risk of dam failure.

Location: Prominent Hill, South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 8 days on; 6 days off
Department: Asset Management & Engineering
Manager: Senior Metallurgist TSF
Employment Type: Permanent. 

Applications close: 9 May 2025

In The Role You Will:

• Fulfil the role of Tailings Engineer reporting directly to the Responsible Tailings Facility Engineer (RTFE).
• Perform or oversee routine dam inspections of the tailings facility.
• Develop and refine tailings plans, monitoring and systems that will achieve regulatory compliance.
• Work with the site teams and design engineer to develop and execute short- and long-term construction and maintenance plans and schedules.
• Work with the engineer of record to continuously improve and implement the quality assurance and control, construction monitoring, and dam surveillance programs.
• Provide necessary reporting to site, corporate, and government agencies.
• Maintain an action log of required tasks and their current status to ensure compliance and adherence to delivery of these tasks.
• Coordinate activities with Consultants, Project Engineering, Processing, Environmental, contractors and Government Regulators as required.
• Oversee the engagement of various contractors for the purposes of field investigations at the TSF.
• Provide updates to operating, maintenance, and surveillance manuals, along with emergency preparedness and response plans, and other management system documents.
• Work to achieve and maintain compliance to GISTM in line with corporate objectives.
• Manage and track the site water balance and report to the water steering team. 

About You:

• Tertiary qualifications in engineering or equivalent subjects and industry experience, preferably in the fields civil or geotechnical engineering.
• Direct experience in tailings and water storage facilities during design, construction, operation and maintenance.
• Strong capability in engineering principles, standards and processes.
• Demonstrated experience with defining project scope, working across a range of disciplines and navigating organisational complexity.
• Highly organised and adaptable to manage conflicting priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Strong stakeholder and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical information to operations and influence at various levels within the organisation.
• Civil project experience is desirable, and would be experience using SAP.

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.

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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.

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