Principal Major Projects

**Date**:18 Jul 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:03-Aug-2025;15:59:59GMT

**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**
- We’re looking for a dynamic and experienced leader to drive the successful execution of **major commercial workplace projects** within our **Property & Workplace (P&W)** function. This role is pivotal in delivering strategic business outcomes, ensuring alignment with global standards, and mentoring project leads to build a high-performing team.

Key Responsibilities:
**Leadership**
- Lead the P&W major projects practice, including operating model, process design, and governance.
- Manage internal and external project teams, ensuring alignment with BHP’s standards.
- Oversee support partners to ensure delivery of agreed outcomes.

**Strategy**
- Define and implement strategies for real estate project identification, feasibility, and execution.
- Maintain a 5-year major projects roadmap aligned with long-term business planning.
- Contribute to global P&W strategy and business planning.
- Prepare and present business cases for major capital investments.

**Project Delivery**
- Oversee resource planning and reporting across all major projects.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to project leads.
- Manage project risks, ensuring compliance with HSE and regulatory standards.
- Ensure delivery within approved scope, budget, and timelines.
- Conduct post-project reviews to identify improvement opportunities and drive innovation.
- Support global planning and performance reporting for major projects.

**Stakeholder Engagement**
- Engage with Investment Committees and senior leaders on project planning and delivery.
- Lead project steering committees and collaborate across the P&W team.
- Build strong relationships with internal partners including Finance, Human Resources, Risk, HSE, and Technology.

**Compliance**
- Uphold the BHP Charter, Our Requirements, and Code of Business Conduct.

**About You**
- You’ll bring a strong track record in leading complex, multi-region projects and a passion for delivering impactful outcomes. Key qualifications and experience include:

- Proven experience managing major projects across multiple regions with broad understanding of property and facilities management.
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Construction Management or Business Administration.
- Strong financial planning and budget management skills.
- Experience implementing best-practice project delivery methodologies.
- Skilled in change and communication management across diverse stakeholders.

Desirable Skills
- Design Thinking.
- Contract Management.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and change management capabilities.

**Location**
- The role can be based in Australia corporate offices in **Brisbane**, **Perth** or **Adelaide.**
You will be working on Monday to Friday roster, required to work three days from the office and up to two days working from home. One of the office-based days is required to be a Monday or Friday.

To find out more about working with BHP and to meet some of our team, click **here**.
- Application close on **Sunday, 3 Aug 2025**

**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, several 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 wor