HV Technician

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.

About Us

BHP WA Iron Ore is one of the world’s leading suppliers of iron ore. The Company’s operations currently involve an integrated system of seven inland mines, more than 1,000 kilometres of rail and two separate port facilities, Nelson Point and Finucane Island at Port Hedland.

Position

Reporting to the HV & Power Supervisor, your duties as the Technician - Primary Plant & Protection Systems will include:

- Ensure conformance with the BHP Billiton Charter, the BHP Billiton Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations.

- An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development

- Execute detailed commissioning and maintenance on complex protection and control systems

- Execute professional commissioning and maintenance on HV substation primary plant

- Take responsibility for the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of all network assets

- Develop Work Instructions, Task Lists, Procedures for the Primary Plant/Protection System Assets under control of HV & Power, Eastern

- Ensure safe completion and close-out of Primary Plant/Protection System works on a daily basis

- Execute critical Shutdowns, ensuring trouble-free maintenance windows and handback

- Initiating and / or participating in continuous improvement projects

- Liaising with Mine & Town Stakeholders to ensure a safe and efficient service

- Ability to identify problems, implement solutions to manage departmental and company supply chain risk

Skills and Experience

- WA “A” Grade Electrical Licence – essential

- High level of commitment to Safety

- Proven maintenance & commissioning experience in a Power Utility environment – Protection Systems, Switchyards, Primary Plant – essential

- Proven experience with High Voltage/Protection Systems in a Mining environment – highly regarded

- Proficiency with setup, commissioning, and monitoring of various Protection Relay schemes, manufacturers etc. Proficiency with the ‘Omicron’ suite of Protection Equipment will be highly regarded

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills are key components of this role as you will work closely with a variety of stakeholders

- Experience with computerised maintenance management systems (SAP experience is highly desirable)

- The ability to apply expertise to analyse and solve problems without clear precedent

- High Risk Work Licence with any/all of WP, CV, LF, Dogging/Rigging endorsements - highly regarded

Location

Fly‑in fly‑out from Perth to Newman, working on all Eastern Pilbara Mine and Newman Township sites, operating and maintaining the generation, transmission and distribution electricity network within the Pilbara region. 7D:7X FIFO or residential at Newman.

Remuneration and Benefits

Join us and be rewarded with interesting, challenging work in a supportive team culture. Develop skills for life whilst enjoying access to benefits including: flexible working arrangements, incentive bonus, award winning share scheme, 18 weeks paid maternity leave, education assistance and generous superannuation scheme.

- We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.

- This opportunity is currently only open to employees working within Australia.

Equal Opportunity Employer

BHP Billiton Iron Ore is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages indigenous Australian and female candidates to apply.

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 applicant 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.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity and many more aspects of your identity. If you have a disability, we may 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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