Principal Discipline Engineer/Mechanical

Date: 3 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date: 18-Sep-2025;15:59:59GMT

Job Country:

Australia

Job State/Province: South Australia

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Reporting to the Manager Technical Assurance, the Principal Mechanical Engineer will support BHP's Copper South Australia Major Projects growth program by providing technical subject matter expertise with Mechanical design. This role will ensure the engineering process and design is optimised and enables safe, efficient construction, commissioning and operation.

This position will be full-time (Monday to Friday) based in Adelaide.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Review the engineering design for effectiveness and efficiency, including integration into the broader project portfolio and asset.
• Assure the engineering design meets operational, maintenance, construction, and commissioning requirements through participation in risk-based workshops.
• Assure the quality of engineering design resources, processes and tools are fit for purpose through risk based technical audits with engineering service providers.
• Provide technical input to the engineering project framing documents by collaborating with other peers from other engineering disciplines, project managers and other engineering leaders.
• Ensure the required legislations, engineering standards and asset engineering standards are adopted in the project scope.
• Optimise asset standards with the asset engineering team where required.
• Identify and implement cost efficiencies into the design.
• Integrate internal lessons learned and external best practices across the project.

As the successful applicant you will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Relevant experience with major projects, EPCM project delivery and site operations.
• Demonstrated extensive experience in mechanical engineering design and ability to work autonomously for the project owners' team.
• Strong experience with design of process plants.
• Ability to engage and influence internal and external stakeholders, consultants, and contractors
• Good technical and communication skills, including the ability to analyse data and produce concise reports and presentations
• Solutions focused with a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills including the ability to work collaboratively
• Tertiary qualification in Mechanical Engineering

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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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