Maintenance Supervisor | Caval Ridge | BMA

Maintenance Supervisor | Caval Ridge | BMA

Date: 22 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date: 10-Oct-2025;13:59:59GMT

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: Queensland

Job Location/Region: Bowen Basin

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.

Caval Ridge is located in Queensland's Bowen Basin on the traditional lands of the Barada Barna people.

We are currently seeking experienced Maintenance Supervisors who have worked with Dozers, Drills and Excavators. This is your opportunity to play a key role in ensuring the reliability and performance of critical equipment in a dynamic and safety-focused environment. Role will be Fly-in-Fly-Out from Brisbane / Cairns, or Drive-in-Drive-out. The roster will be a 7:7 day/night shift.

Reporting directly to the Hydraulic Maintenance Superintendent, you will be responsible for supervising a diverse group of maintenance technicians and executing maintenance activities in an operational open-cut environment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead and supervise a team of hydraulic technicians, fitters, auto electricians and boilermakers in the maintenance and repair of mobile tracked equipment

- Oversee scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum equipment availability

- Diagnose hydraulic faults and implement effective solutions

- Ensure compliance with safety standards, maintenance procedures, and environmental regulations

- Collaborate with planning and reliability teams to improve maintenance strategies and asset performance

- Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and safety

- Manage and coach work groups on quality, task-based risk assessments

- Strong commitment to the field leadership program and coach field leadership activities

About you

- Trade qualification in Mechanical Fitting, Diesel Fitting, or equivalent

- Extensive experience in hydraulic systems maintenance within mining or heavy industry, working on equipment such as Dozers, Drills and Excavators

- Proven leadership experience in a supervisory or leading hand role

- Strong fault-finding and diagnostic skills

- Excellent communication and team coordination abilities

- An energetic and enthusiastic approach to work, with a drive to develop and learn

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.

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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