Lead Project Engineer | WA Asset Projects | Material Handling | Perth

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Lead Project Engineer | WA Asset Projects | Material Handling | Perth

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Australia

Job State/Province: Western Australia

Job Location/Region: Perth

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

We are currently seeking a motivated and highly experienced engineering manager to join the Western Australia (WA) Asset Projects team. The role will help build and develop the projects team to deliver the WA growth and sustaining program.

The team is responsible for managing engineering across all BHP’s mines and port projects. These are large, challenging, multi-disciplinary and diverse projects, including crushing, conveying, screening, balance machines (stackers & reclaimers), car dumpers, ship loaders and train load-outs. Reporting to the Area Lead Engineering for materials handling, your focus is to lead, enable and coach your team to ensure engineering designs are optimised and enable safe and efficient construction, commissioning, and operation. In consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, you will define project requirements and develop engineering strategies, plans and solutions to meet project objectives.

Your key accountabilities include:

• Working closely within a high performing cross functional team (studies, delivery, commissioning, operational readiness and project services) to provide engineering guidance and support from project inception to closeout.
• Overall accountability for the engineering of your team’s projects.
• Developing project specific engineering strategies and plans, key engineering framing documentation and supporting the tender process for engineering services.
• Manage and govern tier 1 engineering consultants to ensure design and performance is in accordance with BHP processes and project requirements.
• Proactively leads and champions engineering value, safety and sustainability throughout all project stages whilst adhering to BHP technical standards.
• Employs specific/relevant engineering expertise and leadership to meet BHP’s technical, schedule and budget expectations.
• Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
• Identifies, engages, and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework, and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Prioritizes work effort and resources accordingly.
• Engages the capabilities of the entire organization.
• Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste

About You

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

• Demonstrated relevant engineering management and governance experience in large, complex brownfield materials handling projects.
• Demonstrated ability to influence within diverse high performing teams.
• Significant multi-disciplinary technical proficiency across a broad range of engineering (project) including operations and maintenance.
• Strong strategic, influencing and change management delivery, coupled with technical communications knowledge and skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Relationship management capability inclusive of successfully influencing and leading change in a challenging and complex environment.
• Previous experience in a leadership role, or at minimum demonstrated leadership capability through short term or project opportunities .
• Degree in Engineering, with strong understanding of Engineering principles and processes.
• Strong commercial acumen as well as managing risk and governance for successful delivery of projects safely, on time and on budget.

Location

You will be based in Perth, Western Australia, in the multi award winning office tower - ‘City Square’. You will have stunning river views from your modern open plan office, state of the art facilities including virtual whiteboards and video conferencing facilities, 550 bicycle racks with ample lockers, showers and change room amenities and a large outdoor terrace with barbecues.  You will be working on Monday-Friday roster. Flexible work is also offered. Some site travel may be required (very limited).

Application close on Sunday, 7 Jul 2024

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 [email protected] .