Principal Sustainability Partnerships

**Date**:20 Nov 2024**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- As a leading resources company, BHP has an important role to play in the transition to a low carbon future. We have an exciting opportunity for an expert to lead BHP’s cokemaking test program as part of BHP’s Commercial and Sales & Marketing function. Reporting to the Head of Technical Partnerships (with a dotted line to the Head of Marketing Strategy, Coal) this position plays a pivotal role in coordinating product support initiatives for our premium steelmaking coal portfolio and its integration into the technical marketing and commercial plans for the coal sales and marketing team.- Key accountabilities:- Support the coal trading and marketing unit by leading R&D and test work, including:- Coordinating and guiding strategic and tactical coal product research projects to advance commercial and technical marketing team priorities.-
- Supporting translation of research and test data into predictive models for the assessment of commercial value and blast furnace performance during decarbonisation.-
- Owning R&D relationships and portfolio of projects, by managing vendors/partners, project plans, steering and coaching of researchers towards high quality and relevant outcomes.-
- Maintaining close collaboration throughout Sales and Marketing team, supporting the wider marketing strategy, mining operations and steel customer requirements-
- Representing BHP’s interests in various industry bodies or associations-
- Monitoring industry developments and technology changes in coke, iron and steel making and assessing the impact on BHPs portfolio, markets and customers, particularly in the trend towards decarbonisation.- About You-
- Industry-recognised expert in coke and iron-making and the role of coal and raw material properties-
- Bachelor's degree or higher, and/or at least 7 years’ experience in a key technical discipline in/or closely related to coke and/or iron-making in the steel industry-
- Deep understanding and direct experience of industrial and fundamental coke and ferrous R&D through academic and/or operations support-
- Strong statistical modelling capabilitiesExperienced in engaging effectively and collaboratively with and influencing internal and external stakeholders at various organisational levels including executives-
- Project planning and execution skills that enable effective identification, prioritization and delivery of critical work through coordination of cross discipline and diverse teams-
- Coaching and mentoring approach with students and non-technical colleagues- Applications close 4th December**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.