Principal Project Delivery

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Job State/Province: Queensland

Job Location/Region: Brisbane

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

BHP's Value Engineering group was established to identify, maximise and implement value-adding capability and performance improvement opportunities across the value chain of BHP's assets. We are a collaborative team of engineers, data analysts, data scientists and simulation modelling specialists, who combine these skill areas to analyse the end-to-end value chain of BHP's assets with the objective to identify, evaluate and recommend opportunities to lift asset capability and performance in the short, medium and long term. We are all about going fast, validate learnings and generating real value for the assets. You love to work with cutting-edge technologies, owning the end-to-end delivery and solutions that delight customers.

As a Principal Project Delivery, you will be part of a global team reporting to the Manager Strategy and Planning and working alongside value engineering leads, principals and specialists. Your role will be to coach and bring Agile best practices to delivery teams to develop value chain digital twin models, predict future performance, and design and track the effectiveness of value-adding recommendations. The successful candidate will support the delivery team, facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments and shield them from external distractions with pragmatism. This individual is a personal coach for team members and an innovator pursuing continuous improvement, with the aim of maximising team performance.

• Facilitating and imparting your Agile experience and coaching to our teams that enable them to deliver first class solutions to stakeholders.
• Managing end-to-end delivery across the various workstreams of the team.
• Facilitating and guiding teams to apply the correct Agile methodologies and standards to drive successful project delivery outcomes in line with business objectives.
• Facilitating ceremonies, communication and resolving disagreements that may arise both internally and externally to the teams.
• Proactively identifying and removing obstacles to team outcomes and collaborating across all areas of the business to achieve this.
• Managing stakeholders, sprints, scope, dependencies, risks, issues and milestones.
• Supporting the Product Owner/s with backlog refinement, identification of goals and engagement of key stakeholders.
• Driving change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team.
• Owning and providing feedback on ways to improve the teams routines and influence global routines.
• Being inquisitive and continuously pushing for the next level of team performance and outcomes.
• Preparing progress reports detailing team progress, risks, issues and achievements.
• Developing, shaping and supporting the delivery of team culture to be inclusive and engaging.

• Experience in delivery focused scrum master role following Lean / Agile practices or leading iterative development teams.
• E xperience in coaching, having difficult conversations and providing feedback to people on each project you have delivered.
• Proven experience leading people and driving greater capability and growth within the team.
• High level of flexibility with the ability to adapt to change – Agile is part of the BHP ways of working – it might have some nuances to what you have practiced before, but this works for us so you come open minded.
• Self-motivated with excellent analytical and interpersonal skills with proven ability to lead and scale implementation of digital solutions successfully and rapidly.
• Experience managing a high volume of work with demonstrated ability to prioritise and effectively manage multiple deliverables across stakeholders. Experience delivering projects or studies in engineering, mining, heavy industry, or infrastructure is preferred.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and maintain composure in high-pressure situations.
• Extensive experience in managing complex projects with intricate interdependencies using Scrum and the Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Experience using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or similar.
• Strong presentation and communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders.

• Experience in advanced analytics, software engineering, discrete event simulation (e.g. AnyLogic, Arena, Simio), AI and Machine Learning is favourable, but not required.
• Prior experience in business, management or engineering consulting will be highly regarded.
• Degree qualified in project management, engineering, mining, or related disciplines will be highly regarded.

Application close on Sunday, 30 Jun 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.

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