Principal Integrated Planning

**Date**:9 Jun 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Queensland

**Job Location/Region**:Brisbane

**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**

Reporting to the Superintendent - Integrated Planning, the Principal - Integrated Planning is a key member and influencer within both the Integrated Planning Team and BMA Mine Planning Lead Teams. You will build strong relationships with site planning and leadership teams, adding value by enhancing the quality of business decisions through data analysis and effective reporting of health metrics.

This is a Brisbane based role working Monday to Friday, offering flexible work arrangements.

**In this role you will**:

- Engage with operational teams and build relationships to identify, advise and evaluate productivity and value creation initiatives along with understanding and quantifying plan delivery risk.
- Oversee buffer and inventory management across the value chain with a particular focus on Raw Coal Inventory, Coal Uncoveries, and Blendable Inventory.
- Support the development, execution, and integration of the monthly SRF processes (Production, Maintenance, Logistics, and Drill & Blast).
- Deliver monthly reporting requirements such as Time Usage Models, Dry Run Rates, Short Range Mine Plans ensuring both plan quality and timeliness.
- Enable and facilitate Compliance to Mine Plan processes in partnership with site teams, driving continuous improvement and value creation.
- Interpret, analyse and communicate information to advise executive level decision-makers on plan delivery risks, opportunities and mitigating actions available.
- Delivery of the annual two year budget and Life of Asset plan submissions with supporting analysis.- Take a look at what it’s like to work with BMA

**About You**
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to support cross-functional engagement and effectively influence throughout multiple levels of the business.
- The ability to prioritise and effectively manage multiple deliverables across various stakeholder groups including senior leadership.
- Ability to think strategically and strong commercial acumen.
- Strong action orientation and outcomes/delivery focus.
- Experience in coal planning at an operational level, inclusive of production forecasting and a working knowledge of coal quality.
- Broader experience in mine planning at a coal operation is very advantageous, as is operational experience.

**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.

Please note as part of this recruitment process the successful applicant will need to conduct a Queensland legislated coal mine workers’ health assessment.

From 1 April 2023, ResHealth will be mandatory for the completion of coal mine workers’ health assessments, allowing you to submit, monitor and review the progress of your health assessment in a secure online environment. For more information please go to the ResHealth website.

**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 yo