Principal Project Risk

**Date**:15 Jan 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 the Role**
- BHP provides risk management support services to regional project teams under a Regional Risk Model through the Project Controls & Analysis function. This entails a local hub of project risk management experts reporting to PC&A Risk Leads across our major operating regions in Minerals Australia Projects.
- Our vision, as a Global Risk Team, is to lead risk excellence in partnership with our project teams. We are responsible for the provision of high-quality advisory and governance services, and partner with our client project teams using risk management as a vehicle to maximize the business value derived from our investments.
- We are currently seeking to invite a highly motivated person to join our PC&A Risk Team in the capacity of Copper South Australia (CuSA) Major Projects Project Risk Principal. Reporting to the local Risk Lead, you will be responsible for contributing to the risk management functional support service to the CuSA Major Projects team. This will involve providing specialist risk advisory services and governance to major projects and delivering high-quality risk inputs to drive analytics that provide insight at a program level to support the organisation in achieving the strategic objectives that underpin the CuSA Major Projects business case.
- Other key accountabilities will include:

- Facilitate risk assessments, workshops and other process to identify, analyse and treat project risks
- Guide project teams to ensure that the risk process and risk records are in conformance with BHP Global and MAP Risk Management requirements.
- Ensure project risk records are adequately developed and feed into portfolio and program-level risk registers and reporting which is used support the Major Projects business case and value proposition.
- Design and develop tailored risk management approach suitable for individual projects dependent on maturity of investment decision and lifecycle phase and document this in project work plans
- Support Major Project teams through Independent Peer Review challenges and Investment Review Committee decision points
- Support Major Project teams to identify, develop and record material risks in accordance with the BHP Global Risk Management Standard
- Support projects with verifications of controls

**About You**
- The successful applicant will have a sound level of commercial acumen and a clear understanding of governance, project risk management and compliance frameworks or similar in adjacent industries, such as processing, construction, or oil and gas. Your success will be heavily influenced by your strong communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with your ability to identify issues before they arise.- Strong business acumen to support robust project risk management and alignment with organisational strategy and objectives- Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrable ability to influence senior project leaders- Demonstrated risk management experience in operations or projects in Mineral Processing, Construction, heavy industry, mining or oil & gas- Knowledge of professional standards (ISO31000, RIMS, PMBOK, etc)- Demonstrated experience working across multi-discipline large programs / projects- Contribution in senior roles to a high performing, autonomous team.- Able to demonstrate an aptitude for developing and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships at all levels.- Demonstrate the confidence to lead by example, hold yourself and others accountable and coach others in ‘Safety Leadership’.
- Location

In this full-time role, you will be based in Adelaide, offering a quality standard of living without the high costs of most other Australian capital cities. Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beach-side lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants and world-class wine regions just an hour away. All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar make Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in.
- You will be working on a Monday-Friday roster and occasional site travel.
- Applications close 29th January

**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 suit