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Date: 8 Aug 2025

Job Posting End Date: 24-Aug-2025;15:59:59GMT

Job Country:

Australia

Job State/Province: South 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. Come and be a part of this success.

About MECoE

BHP's Maintenance and Engineering Centre of Excellence (MECoE) brings together a dedicated and innovative team committed to achieving and maintaining world-class maintenance standards across BHP's global operations. We value diverse perspectives and experiences, empowering our people to make a meaningful impact.

At MECoE, you'll leverage cutting-edge tools, technologies, and approaches to deliver real value, setting new benchmarks, driving continuous improvement, transforming services, and supporting our teams across the business.

About the Role

Are you a seasoned engineering leader ready to make a global impact?

Join our MECoE Engineering Governance & Technical Stewardship (G&TS) team in a pivotalFixed-Term opportunity that spans 14 months. This role offers the chance to lead a high-performing technical team and influence global standards in Asset Integrity.

Reporting to the Manager Engineering G&TS, theLead Engineering – Asset Integritywill play a key leadership role in shaping and governing global engineering standards. You'll drive innovation, foster collaboration, and ensure the integrity of our assets across diverse operations.

In this influential and high-impact role, you will:

• Lead a global team of expert engineers focused on Asset Integrity management.
• Develop, govern, and assure compliance with global engineering standards, processes, and systems.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across Functions, Assets, and Operations.
• Provide expert technical support to global teams implementing engineering requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement in standards, systems, and technology.
• Drive innovation and challenge conventional thinking in a complex business environment.
• Uphold the BHP Charter, Global Standards, Code of Conduct, and statutory obligations.

About You

To thrive in this role, you'll bring:

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering (or equivalent) preferably Electrical, Mechanical, or Structural.
• Deep expertise in governance, assurance, risk management, and Asset Integrity.
• Proven leadership experience in managing high-performing technical engineering teams.
• Experience in Asset or Operational Engineering/Maintenance is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of Asset Management, strategy development, maintenance planning, reliability, or production processes.
• Strong communication, influence, and stakeholder engagement skills within a matrix organisation.
• A track record of driving strategic change and delivering results in complex environments.
• High technical aptitude, critical thinking, and strategic decision-making skills.
• A passion for continuous improvement and excellence.
• A collaborative leadership style that builds trust and transparency across all levels.

Location

This role can be based at our Australian corporate offices inAdelaide, Brisbane, or Perth.
You will workMonday to Friday, withsite travel required from time to time. We encourage team collaboration, and our corporate office teams are expected to work from the officeat least three days per week.

To find out more about working with BHP and to meet some of our team, click here .

Application close on Sunday, 24 Aug 2025

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 inclusion@bhp.com .