Specialist Data Scientist

23 hours ago


Brisbane, Queensland, Australia BHP Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Date: 24 Sept 2025

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Job Country:Australia

Job State/Province: Queensland

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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

BHP's Performance and Data Analytics team is responsible for undertaking analysis and providing insights to drive maintenance productivity and performance across our assets. Our activities range from identifying maintenance performance gaps, deriving actionable insights, formulating strategies and implementing improvement projects.

As a Specialist Data Science, you will be key driver in improving BHP's maintenance productivity. Leveraging cutting-edge big data technologies and a rich library of datasets, the Specialist Data Science will develop quantitative analysis of current performance, identify drivers of failure and predictions on future performance. Furthermore, the role functions as a key advisor to decision makers as we develop strategies to mitigate risk and improve outcomes for our customers.

The Specialist Data Science will working collaboratively alongside other data scientists, performance and improvement specialists, and operations and business subject matter experts to level up BHP's maintenance productivity.

This is a Brisbane based role offering permanent opportunity working Monday to Friday. Flexible working options are available.

In this role, you will:

  • Investigate complex problems using a structured problem-solving approach
  • Write code and conduct analysis utilising a range of technologies and techniques
  • Enable performance improvement by producing actionable insight from data
  • Work closely with stakeholders and SMEs to formulate asset management strategies from insights
  • Confidently present ideas, results, and recommendations to stakeholders at all organisational levels

About You

You will have a related tertiary qualification and demonstrated experience in supporting business improvement strategies and initiatives.

You will:

  • Have strong analytical, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
  • Have experience programming in Python and SQL to:
  • Build descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive modelling
  • Perform structured and unstructured data mining
  • Apply machine learning and statistical modelling techniques
  • Be a collaborative team player that is results orientated
  • Thrive in dynamic, fast paced teams.

Other highly regarded experience includes:

  • Have experience in exploring and proposing new ideas that may have benefits for the business
  • Asset Management experience in mining, manufacturing, or similar heavy industry
  • Experience working in engineering and/or management consulting
  • Experience using Power BI

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 at .


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