Specialist Shutdown Controller | Port Hedland | FIFO

Date: 5 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date: 19-Sep-2025;15:59:59GMT

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: Western Australia

Job Location/Region: Pilbara

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.

Reporting to the Shutdown Coordination Supervisor, the Specialist Shutdown Controller ensures compliance with the WAIO Shutdown Management Standard and escalates any deviations from the plan for their respective maintenance line at Port.

You will be the primary interface between site operations and planning and scheduling teams, ensuring clear communication throughout the entire shutdown process for your line.

The Specialist Shutdown Controller ensures shutdown duration accuracy within budget and confirms all required reports are finalised and distributed at the conclusion of the shutdown event.

• Delivery of shutdown schedule and governance of yearly budgeted hours for Shutdown Lines of responsibility; Ensuring compliance to Shutdown Management framework through shut planning and execution cycle.
• Budget compliance for shutdown outage duration and cost, escalates potential deviation.
• Analyses work management performance against KPIs to identify and deliver improvement initiatives. (e.g., close-out reports).
• Manage schedule based on pre-determined priorities, current progress and impacts of emerging work required.
• Interface between site and MECoE specific to shutdown outage information and shutdown readiness activities.
• Liaise with operations and maintenance teams to validate and challenge scope.
• Gather feedback and information from site and operations to be collated for post outage review.
• Organise and facilitate post outage review meeting.
• Liaise with contractors for various activities such as mobilisation, task execution, close out and demobilisation.
• Liaising with planners and supervisors with the improvement of shutdown plans.
• Liaising with shutdown scheduler to ensure schedule is updated during execution to reflect performance against plan.
• Analyses and ensures S26 job/area owners have the correct time confirmations and escalates gaps to shutdown superintendent.
• Manage schedule based on pre-determined priorities, current progress and impacts of emerging work required.
• Liaise with operations and maintenance teams to validate and challenge SARs.
• During shutdown, responsible for shutdown activities escalation to shutdown superintendent.
• Responsible for shutdown duration accuracy via DAS and amend as required prior to end of month.

The successful applicant will possess the following attributes:

• Excellent safety leadership skills and history of field leadership participation.
• Must be process driven.
• Ability to work autonomously and meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to make decisions in consultation with other business stakeholders
• An energetic and enthusiastic approach to work within team environment.
• WA Statutory Supervisor ( S26 )

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.

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