Specialist

**Date**:19 Dec 2024

**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:South Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Adelaide

**About the Role**:
Prominent Hill is a copper-gold mine, a long-life asset, that is part of the BHP South Australia copper province. BHP is a global company with operations in Australia, North and South America across 5 different commodities.

Being a modern mining company is about our ability to adapt to the changes around us, harness the innovative ideas of our people and collaborate internally and externally to leverage the experience and knowledge of others.

The Specialist - Operations Readiness contributes to the preparation and execution of the operational readiness strategy.

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**Location**: Prominent Hill, South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 4 days on; 3 days off
**Department**: Operational Readiness
**Manager**: Superintendent - Operational Readiness
**Employment Type**: Permanent.

**Applications close**: 10 January 2025

**In This Role You Will**:

- Work with stakeholders to identify, establish and coordinate the delivery of business and operational requirements in line with the operational readiness strategy.
- Collaborate with key operational and functional stakeholders to project manage Operational Readiness activities
- Inputs and facilitation to assist with Operational Readiness process development
- Source information, plans, and conduct analysis to support evidence-based decision making.
- Gain support for and negotiate outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.
- Manage people, environmental and community risks across the value chain, in alignment with social value, sustainability, and public policy considerations.

**About You**:

- Bachelor’s degree and / or similar qualification in engineering, commercial, business and/or technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
- Experience in operational readiness, project management, engineering or equivalent area will be highly regarded
- Attention to detail, good analytical, investigative and problem solving skills
- Proven ability to operate effectively in complex and ambiguous environments
- Autonomous, detail oriented, organised, and objective.
- Communication skills enabling the influencing of a diverse stakeholder group both internally and externally
- Collaborative mindset and advanced interpersonal skills.

**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.