Principal Production

**Date**:15 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**

BHP Coal has a well-established Integrated Operations Centre in the heart of Brisbane providing control services for BMA’s Coal Handling Preparation Plants (CHPP) and Port Operations alongside Load and Haul and Maintenance control.

A key responsibility of our Fixed Plant team is the safe execution of on-spec and on-time production optimised across the asset supply chain to deliver best value for our customers.

We are seeking experienced Process Engineers, particularly experienced in production monitoring, quality management and stakeholder engagement. These are pivotal roles that bring technical acumen and customer focus to support the uplift of controller capability and continuously improving our production strategy in the execution space.

Supporting our 24/7 operations, this role is on a 7/7 day shift only roster (Wed - Tues).

**In this role you will**:

- Positively shape the culture of the Integrated Operations Centre in alignment with the BHP values.
- Motivate, engage and coach the team towards achieving safety, inclusiveness and productivity goals.
- Support optimisation and delivery of all production and port activities aligned to the Weekly plan.
- Acting at the asset level, pro-actively manage coal production risks providing options and influencing outcomes in the Week of Operations leveraging our sophisticated tools and resources.
- Provide continuity of technical context to Execution personnel on various rosters enabling delivery of BMA's plans through improved deviation management aligned to common objectives.
- Support CHPP teams onsite and controllers to optimise for maximum processing efficiency.Bring a strong bias to empowerment of front-line teams and problem solving at the root cause.**About You**
- A tertiary qualified Chemical or Process Engineer with a deep understanding of production activities, supply chain optimisation and processing efficiency.
- You will be able to interpret, analyse and support optimisation of short-term production plans and process plant results to deliver optimal overall outcomes in the 24hr and weekly time horizon.
- Be passionate about engaging and empowering a broader team across multiple crews, building capability and context.
- Able to act autonomously with strong stakeholder engagement specifically, communication, influencing, coaching and problem-solving skills.
- Possess a continuous improvement mindset with a passion for the pursuit of operating perfection.

**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 emp