Principal Quality

**Date**:5 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**
- We are currently seeking a Principal Quality supporting our CCAP Assets as part of a diverse Quality team across Minerals Australia, providing specialist quality input to the project teams.You will play a pivotal role in development and coordination of Quality Management strategy, standards, procedures, processes, systems and plans including quality planning and quality improvement for a program of capital projects.- Committed to developing a culture driven by safety, quality and continuous improvement, your highly developed teamwork and interpersonal skills and an eye for detail will be central to success in the role.- Reporting to the Manager Quality in the Minerals Australia Projects Functions team your accountabilities will include:
- Early project engagement with Development / Delivery Leads to ensure quality focus is applied through all phases and in all functional areas and owner’s team quality requirements are included in contractor’s project deliverables.
- Review and endorse Company quality related documentation to ensure that quality management is fit for purpose to facilitate overall project quality performance.
- Coordinate the review of vendor data and monitors contractors ensuring that Quality Management data is delivered checked and incorporated in a timely manner.
- Monitor the development of the Quality Management plans in conjunction with the Project teams to monitor schedule slippage minimize effects of this.
- Coordinate execution of risk and quality management plans to assure effective management of the project's Quality Management scope of work.
- Identify and implement improvement initiatives, including programmatic opportunities for increased capital efficiency and productivity in the function.
- Evaluates key learnings, industry leading practice and innovations in quality management to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with Development Delivery Teams to ensure fit for purpose processes and tools are available to achieve the project scope, cost and schedule requirements.

**About You**
- A performance and goal orientated professional, your quality experience and strengths will be complemented by your high level of engagement and interpersonal skills. Proactive, credible and influential, you relate well with people, communicating confidently and building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.-
- Quality Management background with experience in the resources sector
- Lead Auditor qualifications.
- Ability to engage and motivate others to drive continual improvement.
- Excellent writing skills built on previous Quality experience is required.
- Ability to inspire and educate around the importance of Quality awareness.
- Ability to work well under pressure and able to prioritise tasks in accordance with requirements.
- Sound understanding of ISO 9001 Principles.
- Technical knowledge of trades desirable.

**Location**
- 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 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