Manager Innovation Project Delivery Office | Adelaide preferred

Manager Innovation Project Delivery Office | Adelaide preferred

Date: 18 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date: 02-Oct-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 the Role

As a Manager Innovation Project Delivery Office (PDO), you will be leading a team focused on developing and executing technology pilots & tests at various levels of maturity, including market-ready solutions, emerging technologies that require de-risking, and disruptive innovations with lower market maturity, all tailored to meet both current and future needs of the Asset.

Your team collaborates closely with asset projects, operations and technology, Think & Act Differently (TAD) functions, and other functional teams within BHP to ensure alignment of pilots with asset customers, designing pilot programs and establishing statements of requirements and investment requests in partnership with TAD and asset SMEs and delivery of those pilots within the approved statement of requirement

Accountabilities

- Identifies, engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders to facilitate piloting programs across the asset, broader BHP and external JVs.
- Ensure the global vision of the Innovation Delivery area is upheld across both Minerals Australia (this role) and Minerals Americas and aligned with the Global TAD Strategy.
- Develops integrated project statements of requirements and deliverables and integrates project work across projects through interfacing with stakeholders and managing the successful transition of project/phase closure.
- Develops and implements project turnover processes and executes commissioning/handover activities, where needed, to facilitate the successful commissioning of equipment/projects across Minerals Australia and BHP in collaboration with MinAm team.
- Provide the necessary support, and project facilitation to streamline the implementation of innovation pilots & tests on site.
- Monitors HSE compliance and applies appropriate methodologies/standards to deliver effective pilot projects across BHP.
- Monitors and manages project performance to deliver projects in line with safety standards, requirements, budget and scope.
- Defines project objectives/schedules, engineering requirements, identifies critical activities, monitors the project plan/schedule and drives continuous improvement initiatives across projects at BHP.
- Manages contract execution and analysis to maximize operational and financial performance and mitigate exposure and risk.
- Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
- With TAD and customer design business adoption approach and criteria, gain support for and negotiate outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.

About You

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

- Proven track record of building a high performing team in a highly collaborative environment.
- Strong people leadership and focus on developing team members
- Extensive experience working with operational Assets in Mining, ideally experience working across small, medium and major projects.
- Demonstarted relevant track record and ability to lead and/or scale implementation of innovation pilots successfully and rapidly into core business areas.
- Proven commercial acumen in outline contract requirements for projects from all innovator vendors to OEMs.
- A deep understanding of a day in the life of our partners in the Assets, with an appreciation of the competing priorities and tensions which may impact the priority given to innovative trials, and the capability to successfully navigate those competing priorities.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strategic relationships with a broad range of internal stakeholders and technical experts.
- Demonstrated experience in identifying and understanding early indications where innovation is needed in business processes and systems.
- Experience resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination across departments.
- Experience in Mining or related fields in a managerial role would be beneficial.

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.

All applicants not currently employed by BHP should apply using the BHP external portal. 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 provide significant opportunity for professional development, with salary packages including performance-based bonuses and an employee share program. We offer flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are focused on creating a diverse workforce that represents the communities where we work and live, with an inclusive environment where everyone is treated fairly and with respect. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process due to a disability, please contact us for accommodations at inclusion@bhp.com.

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