Specialist Operational Readiness

**Date**:3 Sep 2024**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**
- Reporting into the Lead Surface Operations Readiness, you will be supporting the Coal and Copper Asset Projects Operational Readiness Team to safely deliver Operational specific requirements for your assigned projects. This will include collaboration with both Project Functions and Operational Teams, participation in project reviews and risk assessments and development of project Operational Readiness Plans and deliverables.- Responsibilities includes:

- Ensure an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental and community responsibility is maintained through Operational Readiness activities.
- Ensure HSE, Quality and Productivity KPIs are meeting monthly targets.
- Develop operational readiness deliverables and work with stakeholders to gain endorsement to meet key project milestones, to enable effective hand-over
- Identify and assess risks to Operational Readiness execution, and highlight / transfer any project risk to be handed over to operations.
- Collaborate closely with Project, Operational and Functional representatives to ensure the successful integration of projects into their hosting assets.
- Manage change in scope / schedule and communicate impact to Operational Readiness.

**About You**
- To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and attributes:

- Engineering, trade-qualification, together with relevant Operational Readiness experience (in Capital Projects) and resource industry experience is beneficial.
- Analytical & problem-solving skills.
- Strong knowledge of SAP and maintenance requirements including an understanding of Document Management Systems (D2/SW), including Smart Plant for Operations (SPO).
- Great collaboration skills to solve problems across functions and gain support.
- An effective workshop facilitator.
- Ability to work independently and under own initiative.
- Able to interpret technical manuals, IOMs, engineering standards and drawings, create deliverables and communicate effectively with technical specialists, management and operators.

**Location and Roster**
- This role is based in Adelaide on a Mon-Fri roster, offering a quality standard of living without the high costs of most other Australian capital cities. This role will also involve some site travel to Roxby Downs as required.

Application close on **Thursday, 19 Sep 2024**.**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.