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 is offered to suitable candidates on an 8:6 FIFO roster out of Perth or 8:6 residential roster based in Newman.
About the Role
We are looking for a Mining Engineer to join our Newman Operations Production Scheduling team as a 2 Week Scheduler. This role is integral to the operational success and plays a key role with linking longer term strategies to execution. The Production Scheduling team sits within the wider Integrated Operations team of BHP Western Australian Iron Ore (WAIO).
The Production Scheduling team is responsible for generating mine schedules and designs across the 2 week to 2 year planning horizons. The successful candidate will fill the role of the 2-Weekly Scheduling Engineer within this team. The key responsibilities of the role will include:
- Delivering mine schedules and operations guidance to support the execution of 2 weekly schedule
- Providing input and insights to the longer term strategies for the mine plan
- Identify enabling requirements to ensure plans are executable
- Working alongside operational teams to enable optimised mining outcomes
- Identifying improvement opportunities through seeking customer feedback and reconciliation routines to continue to optimise the way we work
All production scheduling team members are expected to reflect the company values in their work and are responsible for ensuring long term value for Newman Operations:
- Ensuring that development is aligned with the long-term mine strategy and that these are operationally achievable;
- Identifying risk in the mine plans and designs proactively and effectively controlling these;
- Demonstrating industry-leading commitment to heritage, environment and safety and ensuring this forms the foundation of all our plans and designs;
- Sound engagement of key stakeholders both with regards to gathering plan inputs and the communication of plan outputs
- Continuously improving both efficiency and value through work planning practices and procedures, as well as identifying opportunities for efficiencies in the operation.
BHP's continued success relies on the diversity of skills and experiences of passionate, high performing and motivated people to help move our business forward. From this role there will be ongoing development and learning opportunities for the successful candidate.
About You
We have a strong focus on finding individuals with the right values, leadership capability, and communication skills. Your interpersonal skills will foster strong working relationships across our Mining, Processing, Geoscience, Engineering and Resource Engineering teams. In addition to demonstrated ability to consolidate and analyse information, you will have the skills and knowledge to provide critical thinking and a solution-focused attitude.
The successful candidate will have;
- Tertiary qualifications in Mine Engineering or other related disciplines in Engineering or Geoscience (preferred)
- Resource industry and site based mining experience (2+ years)
- Working knowledge of mine scheduling software (APS, ATS or Deswik)
- Working knowledge of CAD software packages (such as Vulcan or Deswik)
Applications Close : 1st April 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.
