Principal Health, Safety and Security

**Date**:4 Mar 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:19-Mar-2025;15:59:59GMT

**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
- We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Minerals Australia Projects (MAP), Health Safety & Security (HSS) Team in the role of Principal HSS supporting Copper South Australia (CuSA) Major Projects. Reporting to the Manager HSS CuSA Major Projects, this role will provide Health, Safety, and Security (HSS) functional support for the Smelter and Refinery Expansion (SRE) Project in study and execution phases.
- This role will offer career challenge and development working with our senior stakeholders and leadership teams, supporting SRE with value-add HSS guidance and inputs to enable exceptional project HSS performance.
- The role is based in either Adelaide or Brisbane with occasional travel to Olympic Dam and to the EPCM office in Brisbane.
- HSS input to the design and establishment of HSS standards, procedures and systems for CuSA Projects within the Minerals Australia Projects Framework.
- Build capability within CuSA Project leaders and key contracting partners to enable the desired health and safety culture and enact HSS risk management and compliance requirements.
- Review project design specification to ensure HSS risks and controls are identified and captured within the Project design.
- Support with the embedment of the BHP field leadership program with the project team and wider in the Major Projects portfolio.
- Deliver coaching for line management on the quality and effectiveness of HSS risk assessments, event investigations and corrective actions.
- Ensure provision of technical expertise and deliverables of health and safety requirements for the project and key contracting partners.
- Provide HSS leadership, support, and technical guidance for the SRE Project team.
- Develop and deliver relevant HSS content for upskilling of project owner’s teams and contractor personnel.
- Facilitate the communication between workgroups to ensure consistency in HSS systems, processes, procedures, and goals.
- About You
- As a self-motivated professional with excellent communication and engagement skills, a proven passion for HSS and a culture of care and ability to influence leadership.
- To be successful in the role, you will have:

- Strong communication and engagement skills and an ability to adapt to suit target audience.
- Experience working with projects and studies is highly advantageous.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver team results and meet deadlines.
- Confidence to identify and lead change through vision setting, empowerment, drive and effective execution of change management processes.
- Ability to engage build trustful relationships and work effectively with both senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to manage contractors and review, critically analyse and challenge contractor HSS performance.

**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, se