Lead Project Controls

Date: 10 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country:Australia

Job State/Province: Western Australia

Job Location/Region: Perth

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 recruiting for an exciting people leader role within the Western Australian Asset Projects – Projects Control & Analysis (PC&A) team. The role purpose is to lead a team focussed on the provision of project controls (e.g. cost engineering, planning and scheduling, budgeting, change management, progress measurement and forecasting) to influence the on-time and on-budget delivery of project objectives. Coaching and developing team members to deliver high performance is also a critical component of this role.

Reporting to the Manager Project Controls & Analysis, you will be a proactive and safety focused individual ready to engage and lead a high performing team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Explores and iteratively reassesses best fit solutions, takes ownership of project decisions and outcomes and monitors and manages impacts to value across the project lifecycle (e.g. social, environmental, commercial).
• Conducts benchmarking, implements prioritisation methodologies and identifies key investment drivers to effectively manage key requirements across the portfolio.
• Defines project objectives/schedules, identifies critical activities, monitors the project plan/schedule and drives continuous improvement initiatives across projects at BHP.
• Develops, predicts/forecasts and benchmarks project costs and estimates in line with industry standards, principles and practices.
• Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
• Mitigates people, community, human rights and modern slavery, environmental and climate risks across the value chain, in alignment with public policy and our sustainability and climate commitments.
• Identifies, engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Engages the capabilities of the entire organisation.
• Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
• Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs.

About You

As the successful applicant you will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Demonstrated experience in a technical and people leading role.
• Proven experience in a Project Controls subject matter expert role, ideally within mining or capital projects
• Strong expertise in project cost control and cost systems.
• A track record of delivering value through effective project controls leadership
• A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business (Finance/Accounting), Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills.
• A solid understanding of project and portfolio risks, interdependencies, and critical paths.

Location

The role is based in the Australian corporate office in Perth. You will be working on a Monday to Friday roster with a 3-2-1 arrangement - three days from the office, two days from home, and one of the office days must be a Monday or Friday. To find out more about working with BHP and to meet some of our team, click here.

Applications close 24th September

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.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

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