Superintendent Maintenance Electrical

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Date: 11 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date: 25-Sep-2025;14:29:59GMT

Job Country:

Australia

Job State/Province: South Australia

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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.

Come and be a part of this success.

Prominent Hill produces one of the highest grades of copper concentrate in the world. Located 650 kilometres north-west of Adelaide, South Australia, Prominent Hill is part of our Minerals Australia operation. It\'s made up of underground and surface operations, and is located on the traditional lands of the Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara people. At Prominent Hill we care that everyone goes home safe to do the things they love. We believe Leadership drives culture and culture drives performance. All incidents are preventable and everyone has a role to play.

We currently have a role available for a Superintendent Electrical Maintenance to join our Maintenance and Engineering department. In this role you will be responsible for executing planned and unplanned maintenance activities within an operational mining and processing environment. Your work will contribute to optimal production, equipment performance and availability, as well as improving reliability and ensuring that we are well placed for future growth within the mine.

The Superintendent Electrical Maintenance leads their team in the maintenance of a range of Ore Handling, Processing, and Ancillary infrastructure, both Underground and Surface, overseeing compliance to the weekly work schedule, work instructions and defined processes to achieve optimal maintenance and operational outcomes.

Please note this position is based at Prominent Hill on a FIFO from Adelaide basis, operating on a 5/2-4/3 roster arrangement.

In this role you will:

• Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible safety leader, engaging, developing and coaching your team
• Lead, coach and mentor team members to ensure delivery against performance targets
• Monitor expectations, understanding and application of Maintenance processes within the team to support compliance with local requirements and Group Level Documents (GLD)
• Build relationships through collaboration with other maintenance and production superintendents
• Manage the implementation of work procedures and instructions
• Guide Supervisors in weekly planning and scheduling meetings to ensure alignment and commitment of resources to the work schedule
• Contribute to the development of the Maintenance strategy and budget (foreseeable & unforeseeable corrective) by reviewing the existing Work Plans Task Lists and Corrective Task Lists, in collaboration with Maintenance Analysis & Improvement and Maintenance Centre of Excellence
• Oversee the allocation of training resources for the team to effectively operate
• Monitor the delivery of training in accordance with the Maintenance training curriculum
• As a Risk Control Owner, be responsible to ensure that critical controls are managed so that material risks are maintained in a well-controlled state

• Demonstrate the confidence to lead by example, hold yourself and others accountable and coach others in 'Safety Leadership'
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant technical field combined with leadership or management qualifications will be advantageous
• Confidence in managing risks associated with industrial working environments
• Experience in a similar role, with a focus on engaging and leading a team
• Ability to effectively communicate across multiple levels and disciplines, with well-developed prioritisation skills

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 includesgender,age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

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