Chpp Technician Electrical

**Date**:17 Jun 2025

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

**Job State/Province**:New South Wales

**Job Location/Region**:Hunter Valley

**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 Mt Arthur Coal**

Mt Arthur Coal is an open-cut coal mine 100 per cent owned by BHP. Located in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales it's the largest producer of energy coal in the region, operating alongside olive growers, wine makers, horse breeders and the nearby residential community of Muswellbrook.

Our greatest asset is and has always been our people and communities, which is why we are committed to working together on our Pathway to 2030 - a program to responsibly close Mt Arthur Coal. We are about doing the right thing and working with everyone to co-create a shared vision for the future of the region.

**About the Role**

We currently have opportunities available for an Electrician and a HV Electrician with maintenance experience to join our team. In this role you will be responsible for executing planned and unplanned maintenance activities within an operational mining and minerals processing environment. Your work will contribute to optimal production, equipment performance and availability, as well as improving reliability and ensuring that we are well placed for future growth within our operations.

**In this role you will**:

- Comply to and consistently follow the standards and procedures designed to enable you to work safely and effectively every day
- Carry out unplanned and planned routine maintenance, inspections, and checks to a range of equipment, and/or electrical networks
- Assist in resolution of electrical issues affecting equipment performance and availability
- Review and update maintenance schedule plans and equipment history
- Provide electrical trade skills to perform care maintenance tasks within the area, to ensure overall reliability and stability
- Develop and revise operating and maintenance procedures
- Communicate plant status to appropriate departments
- Maintain a high level of housekeeping in all work areas

**About You**
- Proven commitment to look after your own wellbeing and the confidence to speak up when others put themselves in harm’s way
- Electrical Trade certificate (essential)
- Electrical Workers license
- Experience working in a similar role with exposure to maintenance work
- Experience with mining/minerals processing environments (preferred)
- Ability to work autonomously, or as part of a team
- Ability to confidently make decisions relating to your work, or escalate if needed
- Adaptable and responsive to change, as well as learning new information

**On Offer to You**

This is a unique opportunity to have a rewarding career in a sought-after lifestyle location. Mt Arthur is a large, open-cut truck shovel operation, providing you with an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to technical problems.

Base in the scenic Hunter Valley, you will be minutes away from world-class restaurants and vineyards and a short distance away from the iconic beaches of Newcastle and Central Coast.

You will benefit from a rewarding career path and an excellent remuneration package inclusive of competitive salary, performance bonus and employee share options.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

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.