Area Lead Operational Readiness | Western Australia

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Area Lead Operational Readiness | Western Australia

Date: 15 Oct 2025

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: Western Australia

Job Location/Region: Perth

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

Based in Perth and reporting to the Technical Manager Western Australia Asset Projects (WAAP), you will be responsible for managing a highly skilled and diverse teams as well as internal delivery partners to deliver operational readiness scope to medium sized projects within WA Asset Projects. Periodic travel including between Perth corporate office and WA sites will be required from time to time.

To be successful in this role, you are able to work collaboratively with various stakeholders within projects, functions and assets.

Key Accountabilities are:

- Ensure an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental and community reponsibility is maintained through Operational Readiness activities.

- Ensure HSE, Quality and Productivity KPIs are meeting weekly / monthly targets.

- Develop and implement an Operational Readiness Plan aligned with project milestones

- Plan and continuously review/improve plan to deliver highest project outcomes utilising BOS principles.

- Facilitate, execute and maintain the Operational Readiness Operational requirements across WAAP.

- Collaborate closely with Project, Delivery Partners and Operational representatives to ensure the successful integration of projects into their hosting assets.

- Manage change effectively and efficiently to enhance the team’s performance.

- Identify, build relationships and influence stakeholders to drive optimised project outcomes.

- Work closely with project departments and supporting functions to ensure portfolio synergies can be capitalised and lessons learnt leveraged.

- Integration Between Project and Operations

- Ensure alignment between project execution and operational requirements

- Verify that operational requirements (e.g., staffing, systems, maintenance, spare parts) are considered in project deliverables

- Engage & coordinate efforts with wide range of functional, support and corporate stakeholders to deliver successful project outcome.

- Readiness Assessment and Tracking - Identify gaps, risks, and constraints that could prevent smooth transition to operations

About You

Essential experience to be successful in this role is:

- Extensive exposure to Leading teams, including Identify organizational readiness needs, including staffing and role definitions

- Proven track record of commitment to HSEC (Health, Safety, Environment & Community)

- Ability to engage throughout our business and at all required levels – inter departmental and external departments, operations, maintenance and functions.

- Operational Readiness planning, budgeting, implementation and handover within capital project environment

- Maintenance / Reliability Management systems and data management

- SAP Maintenance Module

- Experience in stakeholder interface management

- Good communication and influencing skills

- Good Problem-Solving Skills

- BOS or Lean/Six Sigma continuous improvement mindset

Open for applications until 29-Oct

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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