Superintendent Surface Construction

**Date**:22 Jun 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:06-Jul-2025;14:29:59GMT

**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:South Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Adelaide

**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
- You will lead a team of Project Construction & Commissioning Specialists to provide safe execution of the Olympic Dam Small Project portfolio.
- To be successful in this role you will have a solid project management understanding and be a collaborative communicator with the ability to manage multiple business priorities simultaneously. Strong interpersonal skills are essential to allow you to influence while also enabling you to build collaborative team relationships, communicate across all business areas at all levels and ensure the best outcome for the business.

You will thrive in continuously changing and ambiguous environments and adapt to ensure focus is on the value-add activities for the department. You will be action oriented and strategically focused with problem solving, decision making and influencing skills.

**_ This position can be site based at Olympic Dam or in Adelaide with weekly site travel._**

**_ In this role you will:_**
- Foster an inclusive team culture of care where team members feel safe, enabled & engaged.
- Demonstrate a commitment to safety by actively engaging in the BHP Field Leadership program.
- Lead a small team and manage project resources to ensure the project portfolio can be successfully delivered in accordance with relevant processes, standards, and performance targets for HSE and Cost.
- Manage and support construction contracting partners to enable safe and efficient project delivery in both underground and surface environments.
- Engage with stakeholders and business partners working towards shared outcomes.
- Identify and assess project risks and use the BHP framework to build a risk aware culture that enables safe and productive outcomes.

**About You**
- Relevant tertiary qualification in a business/engineering/trade-related discipline or demonstrated equivalent business experience.
- Demonstrated experience and success in team leadership roles.
- Development and delivery of multi-disciplined and complex brownfield projects, portfolios, programs
- Strong problem-solving skills in plant construction and commissioning.
- Strong desire for continual improvement and simplification through innovation.
- Ability to manage internal stakeholders and external consultants and contractors through a program of multiple capital projects.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise reporting to senior BHP business leaders.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing abilities.
- Advanced Excel, MS Project, Power BI and SAP skills will be highly regarded.
- How 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 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.