Specialist OT Support

Specialist OT Support

Date: 22 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date: 06-Oct-2025;15:59:59GMT

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: Western Australia

Job Location/Region: Pilbara

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 the Role

Mining Systems WAIO are seeking an experienced Operational Technologist to join our high performing team. This unique role is fly in fly out from Perth on an 8/6 roster to support Pilbara operations.

The Mining Systems WAIO mission statement is to maintain healthy, high performing and highly available systems to enable aspirational safety and production targets for WAIO Operations. We will achieve this by delivering value adding initiatives and performing our fundamental responsibilities exceptionally well: Incident Management, Problem Management, Maintenance Activities, Technology Minor Works, Transition to Operations.

Reporting into the Site Supervisor Mining Systems WAIO, you will be responsible for supporting high availability critical OT systems. Accountabilities include but are not limited to:

- Ongoing commitment to Zero Harm through Field Leadership, endorsement of quality Risk Assessments and Critical Control Verification.
- Demonstrate visible leadership through the understanding of material risks and on-site vigilance including hazard / event identification and investigations.
- Developing and maintaining a strong operational network with maintenance and production teams to enable the Technology Function support OT.
- Execute logical maintenance activities to maintain reliable OT.
- Collaborate with Mobile Equipment and Infrastructure maintenance teams where physical tasks to maintain technology devices requires configuration or programming support.
- Work with Perth based Technology teams to risk assess Technology Changes, providing a site perspective and understanding.
- Participate in problem and Root Cause Analysis investigation for technology incidents.
- Provide technical input into the creation of maintenance strategies.
- Provide configuration support with the delivery of new equipment.
- Assist with ongoing Project teams to provide projects that are sustainable meet BHP’s Requirements

About You

To be successful in the role, you possess a Trade/Tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Communications/Electronics/Industrial Electrical and/or can demonstrate extensive knowledge and experience in this field.

Having any of these licenses or certificates would be favourable but not essential:

- ACMA Open Cabling Licence with F, O, C Endorsements
- Certificate lll in Telecommunications

You will also be able to demonstrate experience in maintaining and supporting IT/OT technology in one or more of the following systems or underpinning technology components:

- WIFI, LTE & WTS Networks
- Onboard Safety Systems – CAS & DSS

In addition, you will have experience in ServiceNow and SAP tools.

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.

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