Superintendent EW, Goldroom and Laboratories - Olympic Dam

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 Olympic Dam

One of Australia’s largest mines and a complex minerals processing operations, Olympic Dam, is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well-equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping and cultural facilities. The underground mine at Olympic Dam is one of Australia’s largest and premier underground operations.

About the Role

Reporting to the Manager Refinery Operations, this is a diverse role where you are accountable for the Electrowinning, Goldroom and Laboratory departments.

You will oversee a large team and provide insightful and influential leadership that supports engagement and success.

This role is based at Olympic Dam and can be offered as residential 5/2 or FIFO 5/2, 4/3 (with flex).

In this role you will:

• Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible safety leader by engaging, developing and coaching your team whilst ensuring an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development


• Overseeing day-to-day operations in the Gold Room, Electro Winning and Laboratories to deliver production targets


• Coaching the teams to reinforce and sustain the BHP Operating System embedding appropriate mindsets and behaviours in our supervisors and front-line teams


• Lead and develop a team of technical and operational professionals


• Identify, build, and develop team capability through ongoing and regular coaching and development planning  


• Build business partnerships and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders internal and external to the business to ensure effective, proactively planned production


• Prepare, manage and review operating budgets for your area, as well as monitor against monthly cost drivers

About You

To be impactful in this challenging role, you are delivery focused with the motivation to develop, drive and deliver outcomes with a continuous improvement mindset.

You possess a clear commitment to teamwork, modelling a culture of inclusion, safety, accountability, respect and recognition.

You are comfortable with complexity and use your collaboration, engagement, influence and coaching skills combined with an analytical and problem-solving mindset to get the best outcome.

In addition, we are ideally looking for the following skills and experience:

• Tertiary or Trade qualification in a technical discipline


• Frontline leadership experience with large multi-functional teams


• Experience to Risk and Portfolio management


• Experience in other industries that utilise an operating systems founded on Lean principles would be highly regarded


• Demonstrated people leadership capability, with the well-developed interpersonal skills necessary to deal with the diverse range of employees


• Knowledge of 1SAP work management (or similar ERP system)

How to Apply

Please apply before 8 June 2026 

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]