Principal Carbon

**Date**:8 Jan 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
- This role will have the opportunity to directly influence BHP’s decarbonisation efforts in Australia. The role is based in one of BHP’s Australian offices, preference for either Perth or Brisbane offices.
- Key accountabilities:

- Develops, implements and coordinates BHP’s strategy around the origination of carbon offsets and regulatory credits in alignment with the carbon offset strategy
- Provides in-depth knowledge of Australian Safeguard Mechanism and ACCUs scheme to support business decisions
- Identifies, develops and manages carbon offset origination project opportunities in Australia
- Conduct technical due diligence on origination projects including visiting sites to identify potential risks and upside
- Leads the end-to-end origination of carbon projects whilst successfully collaborating with BHP Functional teams to ensure BHP’s key objectives are met
- Develops and manages the required internal approvals for all origination activities
- Risk manages the carbon offset offtake portfolio including tracking the performance of origination projects and managing the counterparties
- Provides support to internal carbon origination activities in BHP owned or managed land
- Participates in industry associations and forums in relation to carbon offset activities, including but not limited to track developments/nuances in relevant carbon schemes and methodological updates for BHP.
- Establish high quality internal and external stakeholder relationships and networks, including but not limited to project proponents, project developers, technical vendors, auditing bodies, standard bodies, relevant regulators, etc.
- About You
- Bachelor’s degree and/or extensive practical/technical experience in the carbon industry specifically on projects generating carbon offsets through various crediting mechanisms
- Practical experience/knowledge to review project-specific topics, including but not limited to project risks (practical, implementation, counterparty, regulatory, etc.), cost/economics assumptions, etc.
- In-depth knowledge of the Australian Safeguard Mechanism and ACCU scheme including offset methodologies, both nature-based solutions as well as industrial solutions is required.
- Able to perform independent Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM) modelling, including reviewing against counterparty-specific assumptions to build BHP’s view on yield projections and any associated risk/variation.
- Existing relationships with offset providers, project originators, project proponents and/or intermediaries such as traders, service providers, etc. is required
- Knowledge of international carbon offset trading schemes and regulations, with preference for those markets that BHP operates and markets in, is preferred
- Possesses project planning and execution skills that enable identification and prioritization of critical work and able to independently lead large streams of work and manage associated risks
- Evidences high level of commercial and business acumen
- Experienced in engaging effectively with and influencing executive-level stakeholders
- Ability to build trustful relationships and communication effectively across multiple levels
- Applications close 31st January

**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