Managing Counsel, Health and Safety

2 weeks ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia BHP Group Full time

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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

BHP is a leading global resources company. Our Minerals Australia business includes operations in Queensland, Wester Australia, New South Wales and South Australia, focusing on coal, iron ore, copper and nickel.

The Legal function is responsible for providing strategic legal advice to enable BHP to achieve its commercial objectives and manage legal risk in compliance with applicable laws and consistent with the BHP Charter and Code of Conduct.

We have an excellent opportunity for a lawyer, with strong work health and safety experience, to join BHP's Legal team, as a Managing Counsel. This is a unique opportunity to utilise your skills and experience with a leading global resources company.

This role will provide legal advice and support to the BHP Group and particularly the Minerals Australia assets and functions on work health and safety matters, including incident response and investigations, regulatory engagement, emerging risks and health and safety governance.

This is permanent role and based in Brisbane, Perth or Adelaide, with occasional travel as required.

In this role your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  • Conforming with the BHP Charter, Code of Conduct, Global Standards and relevant statutory obligations.
  • Having an overriding commitment to health and safety.
  • Establishing yourself as a trusted adviser with key stakeholders and maintaining strong relationships between Legal and other functions and assets.
  • Maintaining deep functional expertise in the area of work health and safety law and providing strategic legal advice on complex and key work health and safety matters and issues across the Minerals Australia business, including those matters that impact multiple assets and functions.
  • Being accountable for identifying work health and safety legal risk and working collaboratively with Legal and other functions to ensure BHP is appropriately managing work health and safety legal and other external risks.
About You

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

  • You will be a qualified lawyer who is able to practice in Australia and has experience working for a top-tier firm or in-house in a similar role. Previous experience in providing practical advice on work health and safety matters, ideally in the mining sector, is essential.
  • You will have the ability to work well in a team environment.
  • As a true strategic adviser, you are able to draw on your experience and strong commercial acumen to solve complex problems and achieve business results.
  • Additionally, you will be an excellent communicator (both oral and written) with the ability to negotiate effectively, and to influence stakeholders and build relationships with key stakeholders at all levels.

To be considered for the role a Law degree and the ability to practice in Australia is essential. Post admission experience of at least 6-8 years is desirable.

Application close on 30 June 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 .

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