Mining Engineer | Nickel West | Leinster and Mt Keith | FIFO | Various Rosters (Australia)

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

This is an excellent opportunity to secure a truly challenging role that will stretch your technical ability in a diverse mining business.  Nickel West value and respect employees, offering an inclusive and diverse environment with a competitive salary on offer plus 12% superannuation and a range of company benefits.

Reporting to the Superintendent Scheduling, we are excited to be recruiting a Mining Engineer for our Mount Keith and Leinster mine sites. This position is FIFO from Perth, with various roster options available. This position will provide all design and scheduling required for mining operations from 1 month to 2 years. The successful candidate will work closely with the various mine operations team to ensure Production plans supplied are robust, practical, and executable.

You will work closely with all departments of the Mining technical and Operational teams, and the Perth based Planning and Technical Team to deliver results and work in a collaborative manner, to add value to the overall business.

About You

You will have a passion to build, shape and support our multi-disciplined, diverse team as we strive for high performance, embracing inclusivity and valuing diversity, technical expertise and leadership.

You will have a collaborative approach, with the ability to engage and influence diverse stakeholder groups and positively influence outcomes. Your excellent communication skills include a deep understanding of stakeholder needs and preferences and an ability to Experience preferred includes engineering/technical roles within the Resources, Utilities and/ or Infrastructure industries, with strong leadership capabilities built through experience.support leadership teams by providing context and insight to facilitate decision-making and strategic direction. 

In addition, the following skills and experience will be highly regarded:

• Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering
• Significant knowledge of mining methods and practices, open pit or underground
• Mine planning experience, including report and presentation skills
• Mine Design and Scheduling software experience

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.