Senior Production Engineer Underground Mining

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 BHP Olympic Dam

Join Olympic Dam - a safe, reliable, globally competitive business delivered by our people. We care that everyone goes home safely to do the things they love. Leadership is key to driving a positive workplace culture, and this drives performance. All incidents are preventable and everyone has a role to play.

As one of Australia's largest mines and most complex minerals processing operations, it's quite unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well-equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping and cultural facilities.

About the Role

Working across our extensive underground operation, you will provide specialist advice and execute analysis and benchmarking of Underground Production's end-to-end performance. You will identify and implement a portfolio of improvement initiatives that enable excellence and support business priorities for continuous improvement.

Please note this position is based at Olympic Dam, operating on an 8/6 roster, with residential or FIFO options available.

Core responsibilities are:

• Liaise with underground crews to ensure that new ideas are developed and practically implemented and build cross-team relationships;
• Compile reports & provide expertise to other teams in analysis of production performance indicators and metrics;
• Analyse and determine equipment capability assumptions;
• Identify functional capability gaps and recommend improvement opportunities to department leadership;
• Prepare inputs to form the production budget and produce operating standards, procedures and work instructions;
• Provide feedback to the Planning & Technical teams to improve future execution plans, designs, schedules and forecasts;
• Engage with Reliability teams for modifications needed to plant and equipment, and with Technology teams to explore new capabilities; and
• Guide development of junior team members technically and via operational coaching opportunities during time in the field.

About You

• You will consistently follow the standards and procedures designed to enable you to work safely and effectively every day, with a proven commitment to the wellbeing of those around you, demonstrating confidence to speak up when others put themselves in harm's way;
• You will be degree-qualified Mining Engineer (or a closely related field), and operational mining experience is essential, with underground experience preferred;
• Additional tertiary/technical qualifications in a relevant field are preferable (e.g. finance);
• You will have thorough understanding of the underground production cycle, including stope drilling and blasting, truck loading and haulage, and raise drilling;
• Your previous experience in project management, and implementing improvement initiatives will be highly regarded;
• Ability to self-manage your workload and determine priorities for yourself and others under your guidance; and
• Previous experience in a leadership capacity will be highly regarded.

How to Apply

Please apply before 15 October 2025

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.

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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.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us