Manager Community Infrastructure

**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**:

- The Manager for Community Infrastructure is responsible and accountable for operational management, leadership and service delivery associated with the provision of residential housing and other community infrastructure for the WA Iron Ore (WAIO) business at Port Hedland & Newman.
- As part of the Non-Process Infrastructure leadership team the role oversees the operations and maintenance of more than 2000 houses in the regions along with a diverse portfolio of other infrastructure including an iconic regional hotel, large shopping centre, family daycare facilities, small business facilities and other community assets.
- The role is unique in that it deals with a huge range of stakeholders across the business and wider community, including leadership and frontline teams within our Port, Rail and Mines teams, local and traditional owner businesses, community organisations, as well as commercial business partners and regulators.
- The role is offered as FIFO or FIFO Flex from Perth.
- Responsibilities include- Provide leadership and an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility, customer service, sustainable development
- Ownership and continued refinement of the Housing Strategy and customer Memorandum of Understanding to ensure that department activity and supporting funding delivers on long-term business needs across multiple stakeholder groups
- Ensure high performance execution of the housing strategy, including allocation, operations, maintenance, asset lifecycle management, refurbishment and minor capital projects.
- Operational management of a large contractor workforce conducting maintenance across the portfolio
- Ensure compliance with relevant statutory obligations and Australian standards, including adherence to the residential tenancies act
- Working with internal and external customers to identify and deliver business critical community infrastructure, such as provision of family daycare facilities or supporting infrastructure for small and local businesses
- Input to infrastructure design, development, and operational readiness for new and renewed assets
- Contribute to delivery of and manage ongoing Opex and Capex budgets for defined area of responsibility (including forecasts).

**About You**:
You bring your degree qualification and/or related experience in relevant fields eg infrastructure, maintenance, services or construction coupled with your strong sense of commerciality and contract management ability to this role in order to support delivery of critical regional infrastructure to support the BHP business.
Your customer focus coupled with commerciality and creativity helps you thrive in an environment where the need to create win-win relationships is high, and you can work with all levels of the organisation.
Your significant understanding of maintenance, facilities and asset management, construction or real estate and demonstrated experience managing and leading a significant portfolio of geographically dispersed support and/infrastructure services assets ideally within mining or related industry will be highly regarded.
Our Purpose is to bring people and resources together to build a better world. If you are looking for a unique opportunity to make a real impact on people and to live up to BHP’s purpose while driving collaborative and creative solutions, then this role is for you.

**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 and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.