Specialist Maintenance Strategy Development | MECoE | Brisbane (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.

About the MECoE

BHP understands that the capability of our people is key to our success and BHP’s Maintenance & Engineering Centre of Excellence (MECoE) have identified opportunities for individuals who are keen to continue their development in a professional maintenance space to be supported and thrive.  We encourage early career applicants along with individuals who have chosen to put their professional careers on hold. 

With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. This Program is an opportunity for dedicated engineering or trade professionals to make their mark whilst working in a positive and cohesive team contributing to shaping the future of BHP.

This position is based in Brisbane. 

The role will be offered on a permanent basis.

About the Role

This role will build skill, capability & excellence of future maintenance professionals within the MECoE by creating experience, exposure, and education opportunities for applicants by rotation through various teams within the Centre. Commitment to diversity and inclusion of applicants will be imperative to success of this role. The role will provide development opportunities through various departments of the MECoE. You will be expected to develop skills to enable you to be a performing member of these teams:

• Governance and improvement of how we maintain our Equipment with direct impact to our Operations through Strategy Optimisation
• Enhancing the defect elimination culture and involvement in root cause analysis through Defect Elimination
• Understanding in detail out process & systems and performance management of our assets with Asset Management

Underpinning this will be Operational exposure with our Assets involving regular communication with our site-based teams and some travel required to complete routine tasks and activities.

You will work within these teams on a rotational basis over the course of a year with a view to then be placed into one of the roles depending on your skills and fit within these teams.

About You

We are seeking applicants with previous experience and tertiary or trade qualifications in maintenance and/or Mechanical/Electrical Engineering to join the Program. You will demonstrate a commitment to safety by acting with integrity and modelling safety behaviours utilising BHPs processes & procedures and taking accountability for the safety of yourself and other employees. Your ability to build and maintain positive working relationships through communicating with impact to influence and drive positive outcomes will see you be successful in this role. You must have exceptional organisational skills and the focus to deliver a quality, timely outcome and demonstrate a willingness to learn and develop. You should demonstrate the ability to adapt rapidly to a changing work environment and respond positively to ambiguous situations. We are looking for great team players who understand the importance of collaboration and have an optimistic can-do attitude.

How to Apply

If you are interested in these opportunities, we would love to hear from you before 15th July 2022

You will be requested to complete a short video interview as part of your application.

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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.  

BHP also requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people (from the 31st of January 2022 or earlier depending on relevant state health directives). If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this new requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce. For further information please see our website (LINK) 

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 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.