Lead Commissioning

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.

Olympic Dam is one of the world's most significant deposits of copper, gold, and uranium. Located 560 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia, Olympic Dam is a part of our Minerals Australia operation. It's made up of underground and surface operations and operates a fully integrated processing facility from ore to metal.

Come and be a part of this success.

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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.

Olympic Dam is one of the world's most significant deposits of copper, gold, and uranium. Located 560 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia, Olympic Dam is a part of our Minerals Australia operation. It's made up of underground and surface operations and operates a fully integrated processing facility from ore to metal.

Come and be a part of this success.

The Lead Commissioning role is to lead the commissioning planning and execution activities on assigned projects to ensure commissioning is integrated into the project execution plan and is optimised to enable safe, efficient and effective start up and handover.

This will be coupled with providing leadership to Commissioning specialists and contractors on assigned projects to ensure commissioning is optimised and executed safely.

Reporting to the Manager Commissioning your accountabilities will include:

• Ensuring an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental and community responsibility is maintained throughout Commissioning activities.
• Ensuring the commissioning strategies on projects are aligned with ODAP requirements.
• Collaborate closely with key project and operational stakeholders to ensure the successful start-up and ramp up of projects.
• Providing commissioning planning and expertise and coordinating commissioning resources to execute activities safely and effectively on assigned projects.
• Ensuring commissioning standards, processes, methodologies and systems are diligently applied on assigned projects in accordance with MAP requirements.
• Providing regular reporting and presentation material to line and project leaders for projects.
• Respectfully and professionally, influence stakeholders to drive optimised outcomes including Studies, Delivery, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering and Technology teams.

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

• Demonstrated experience in field-based commissioning within mining industry.
• Tertiary qualification in Engineering or a relevant trade qualification.
• Technical proficiency across a broad range of engineering disciplines.
• Proficiency with Commissioning & Completions management systems.
• A good understanding of contracts and procurement practices as well as managing risk and governance in a project management capacity will be critical to the success of this position.
• A performance and achievement orientated professional, your technical strengths will be complemented by excellent engagement and communication skills.
• Problem solver with demonstrable experience troubleshooting facilities including processing, pumping, electrical and control systems.
• Proactive, credible and influential, you relate well with people, communicating confidently and building strong working relationships with key stakeholders.

This role will be primarily field-based at Olympic Dam, on a fly-in-fly-out 4D3X roster out of Adelaide.

A role at Olympic Dam allows you to balance your work and family commitments, with the flexibility to change these as your life evolves. To find out more click here.

Roxby Downs is located about 560 kilometres north of Adelaide and about 1 hr flights from Olympic Dam Airport. Estimate population of 4,500 this town offer a community lifestyle with all the necessities you wish such as school, pool, art gallery, cinema, community library, community center, sports club etc. To find out more about living in Roxby Downs click here, while detail about lifestyle in Roxby Down clicks here.

While Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beachside lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants, and world-class wine regions just an hour away. All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar make Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in

To find out more about working with Olympic Dam and to meet some of our team, Click here

Application close on Tuesday, 28 May 2024

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.

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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.

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As a world-leading resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, our products are sold worldwide, with sales and marketing led through our Singapore and Houston locations.

We're focused on the resources the world needs to grow and decarbonise. Copper for renewable energy. Nickel for electric vehicles. Potash for sustainable farming. Iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition.

A resources mix for today and for the future.

We have over 80,000 employees and you'll find BHP people from the Pilbara to the Bowen Basin, from Saskatchewan to Santiago and from Texas, Trinidad and Tobago to Singapore and Melbourne.

As a world-leading resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, our products are sold worldwide, with sales and marketing led through our Singapore and Houston locations.

We're focused on the resources the world needs to grow and decarbonise. Copper for renewable energy. Nickel for electric vehicles. Potash for sustainable farming. Iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition.

A resources mix for today and for the future.

We have over 80,000 employees and you'll find BHP people from the Pilbara to the Bowen Basin, from Saskatchewan to Santiago and from Texas, Trinidad and Tobago to Singapore and Melbourne.

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