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 Team
Future Planning program is within the BHP Technical Functions team, Resource Centre of Excellence (RCoE) as part of the BHP Technical Functions.
Future Planning is a multi-year program focused on "advancing BHP’s approach to mine planning” and provides new and innovative approaches to planning across the value chain horizons.
The team mission is to advance BHP's approach to resource planning for predictable delivery of chosen business plans.
This is an integrated program that encompasses people, processes, and technology initiatives. It consists of three workstreams dedicated to:
- Strategic long term resource decision making (Enterprise Choice Optimisation - ECO).
- Probabilistic planning from the medium term to executable budget mine scheduling (Enterprise Mining Probablistics - EMP).
- Production excellence focused on plan compliance and quality product management throughout the value chain (PE).
About the Role
As the Manager Future Planning, your purpose is to provide leadership to team across all streams, focuses on conceptualising, planning, strategically prioritizing and implementing products(s).
Reporting to Head of Future Planning, your key deliverable is to support and assist in leading the deployment of Future Planning across BHP sites in alignment with our deployment roadmap.
About You
We are looking for qualified mining professionals with management experience across mine planning and execution to join the future planning team.
As a successful candidate you will possess the following:
- Mining Engineer or similarly qualified mining professional with significant mine planning experience across multiple planning horizons (long, medium, short).
- Demonstrated experience in leading a team of professionals in a matrix structure.
- A key influencer with site operations and mine planning personnel with strong communication and engagement skills.
- Understanding of the BHP Operation System (BOS),or experience in an improvement role would be highly regarded.
- Program or Project leadership and management skills to assist with the strategic direction and execution of the program aligned to the Program Strategy and Outcomes.
- Demonstrated willingness and ability to think differently and facilitate change to improve practices.
Location
The role can be based in Australia corporate offices in Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth. This is global role where site travel requires to support Future Planning deployment activities. To find out more about working with BHP and to meet some of our team, click here.
Application close on Wednesday, 2nd Apr 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.
