Specialist Gis

**Date**:14 May 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:
**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 Copper SA
- BHP’s copper province in South Australia (Copper SA) comprises the Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena underground mines, with smelter and refinery complex at Olympic Dam. The company is also progressing the Oak Dam exploration prospect.
- About the Role

Reporting to the Lead Geoscience Projects in the Planning, Technical & Environment team, this role plays an integral part in supporting several mine site teams, including Carrapateena, Prominent Hill and the world-famous Olympic Dam Mine.

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. We believe our greatest asset is our people and offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities.

**_The role will be based in Adelaide on a Monday-Friday basis (with flexibility). Occasional site travel is required._**

In this role you will:

- Use GIS software to capture, edit, transform, and analyse geographic data
- Source GIS, demographic, and other relevant data.
- Provide timely system administration.
- Manage geospatial data and its analysis, integration, and dissemination.
- Use our BHP Operating Systems to identify, problem solve and rectify system issues and implement improvement opportunities by determining the root cause, evaluating solutions and countermeasures, and managing implementation of actions to improve productivity, efficiency, and cost effectiveness in collaboration with the teams.
- Collaborate with your peers in other BHP assets to pursue excellence in all things GIS.
- Initiate and participate in Management of Change and RRRAs as required for new software deployments.
- Collaborate with Technology to manage software lifecycles and coordinate deployments.
- Support and contribute to 2BP and 5YP budget forecast processes to ensure inclusion of longer-term GIS business requirements.
- Seek regular feedback from customers/stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.
- About You

We have a strong focus on finding individuals with the right values and communication skills. In addition, demonstrated ability to consolidate and analyse information, you will have the skills and knowledge to provide critical thinking and a solution-focused attitude.

Your success will be heavily influenced by your strong communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, coupled with your ability to identify and raise issues, find solutions in complex situations, and decision-making abilities.

Ideally you will have:

- A tertiary STEM qualification (diploma or degree)
- A broad understanding of GIS concepts including data formats, coordinate systems, and analysis techniques
- Coding and scripting experience highly desirable
- Excellent problem-solving skills, self-motivated, initiative, and an ability to work with mínimal supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- How to Apply

**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 a