Lead Principal Group Operational Performance

**Date**:28 Oct 2024**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- This is an opportunity to join the Group Operational Performance Team at BHP, where you will accelerate the highest impact operational performance opportunities through identification and replication of technical best practices across global mining operations with a specific focus on our operational bottlenecks, load & haul and copper concentrating. Reporting to the Head of Group Operational Performance, you will:
- Lead broad engagement, technical analysis and operational problem solving to support benchmark performance through the bottlenecks in our value chain (short term focus on Load and Haul, Copper Concentrating).
- Integrate people, equipment, systems, and processes to optimise performance.
- Contribute broadly to best practice capturing and replication across our operations.
- Coach and develop capability in operational teams through global value chain forums and other engagements.

You’ll be working closely with a fantastic team of passionate professionals and further supported by our Operational Performance Insights team and a network of Asset and Functional partners.
- About You- Do you thrive on difficult challenges? Do you see the magic of data driven insight combined with front line experience and engagement? Do you have a track record working in benchmark load and haul operations across multiple commodities?
- If this sounds like you and you want to work with some of the best in the business, across the globe, on high impact projects to accelerate BHPs operational performance we want you to apply.- We are looking for someone who can manage complexity, think strategically, solve problems collaboratively, and analyse, synthesise and communicate insights using data to drive real operational change.- We value our relationship with our customers (operations globally) and provide trusted insights to both senior decision makers and the front line of our operations, so attention to detail is key, and we love people that can bring an insatiable curiosity to understanding and resolving problems and have demonstrated this in the past. This role requires the ability to engage everywhere from a crib hut to a virtual senior leader forum.- You will ideally have experience as a senior member of a team working in operations leadership, planning, strategy or performance improvement divisions of a resources or industrial company, or relevant experience from a top consulting firm.- Lastly, if you are passionate, keen to develop and make a difference while you do it and think you fulfil even some of the role description above, we encourage you to apply.**Location**
- In this full-time permanent position, you will be based in our corporate office either Perth or Brisbane. You will be working on a Monday-Friday roster while a Flexi work arrangement is also offered.

**Reference Number - 82637**
- We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.**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 Opport