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Lead Dragline | Minerals Australia | Saraji Mine | Flexible Roster (Australia)
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Come and be a part of this success.
About the Role
Reporting to the Superintendent Mine Scheduling, as the Lead Mining Engineer – Draglines you will be leading the team of Dragline engineers to provide timely and accurate designs, plans and schedules to enable the 5 draglines at Saraji Mine to deliver planned production volumes.
In this role you will be responsible for providing planning support for the +1 week to 12 week time frame. Use your already solid mine planning skills and operational experience in this busy and challenging role to develop effective working relationships with the operational and medium-term planning teams, in order to ensure the efficient execution of short-term plans and schedules.
This is a great opportunity to hone your mine planning and leadership skills as well as further develop a deep understanding of the key value drivers of a large complex open cut mining operation. You will gain exposure to a variety of stripping operations and mine geology whilst seeing the results of your work being implemented. You will also have access to a supportive, inclusive and results-oriented leadership team.
Your responsibilities:
- Lead and direct the work for the Dragline planning team to ensure that designs, plans and schedules are in place enabling operations to achieve forecast production.
- Coach, develop and mentor team members in best practice Dragline planning.
- Build relationships with and obtain buy in from the operations teams for plans, schedules and designs.
- Ensure that productivity is maximised buy leveraging the key value drivers of coal uncovery and minimising re-handle.
- Identify interactions and key enabling activities and put plans in place to manage these.
- Build relationships and work closely with other mine planning sub functions (Prestrip, Coal Quality, Geology, Survey and medium term planning).
- Continue to refine and embed the Dragline Planning standards and processes.
- Communicate designs and schedules to Operations.
- Identify and implement Planning improvement initiatives.
About You
As the successful candidate, you will have a tertiary education in Engineering and previous experience working at a large Coal Mining operation, particularly planning for Draglines.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must, allowing you to build relationships across departments and to communicate at all levels. A strong working knowledge of Vulcan, 3D Dig and the Microsoft Office suite is essential and previous exposure to the scheduling software Spry will be advantageous.
This role offers flexible work arrangements, or can also select to live residentially in the nearby town of Dysart.
Our people strategy is focused on balanced leadership and BMA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages female and Indigenous Australian candidates to apply.
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.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people, BHP requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in line with BHP’s Covid Policy and any relevant State health directives. If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people. 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.