Specialist Site Engineering

Date: 28 Aug 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

A Specialist in the Procurement Site Engineering Projects team, providing functional support to WAIO Site Engineering the successful delivery of their projects.

As a member of the Procurement Site Engineering Projects team you will be responsible for working collaboratively to plan, implement and manage the procurement of contracts according to the approved strategy with an overriding commitment to health, safety, social value, environment responsibility and sustainable development.

The Procurement Site Engineering Projects team requires a diligent professional to provide ongoing procurement support for existing and planned contract packages. A core focus of this role will be as an integrated member of the Procurement Site Engineering Projects team and providing support to other members of the team. As part of the role, you will be expected to foster collaborative relationships both internally and with external parties for the successful delivery of the WAIO Site Engineering Projects.

You will be required to travel to Company offices and sites from time to time as the project team requires.

Key Accountabilities

The primary responsibility of this role is to drive world class sourcing and administration of Contracts for the Procurement Site Engineering Projects team (with an emphasis on construction contracts) through:

• Development of execution strategies, undertake sourcing, execute new contracts and manage contract variations compliant with the BHP Charter, Code of Conduct, Global Standards, Functional Level Requirements.
• Ensuring the appropriate allocation of risks through the selection of the most effective commercial pricing models
• Drafting of high-quality tender and contract documents to minimise ambiguity, thereby reducing opportunities for claims
• Influencing the selection of the various procurement strategies (e.g. fixed lump sum, cost reimbursable, Target Cost)
• Providing contract management (incl. contract administration) support to project teams throughout the contract life cycle
• Providing contractor and contract performance monitoring and reporting to support the Projects Category (KPI reporting, spend analytics, contract variations incl. claims management, and off-contract spend)
• Maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to become a highly valued contract expert, trusted with commercial support, to lead negotiations with vendors and provide on-going contract management up to and including close-out
• Ensuring consistency and high performance against projects and commercial Procurement KPIs
• Pursuing projects, operational and commercial excellence through continuous improvement
• Application of sound commercial judgement around application of contractual terms and conditions to ensure that contractors perform their obligations under the contract
• Understanding and implementing principles and methods of dispute avoidance and resolution.
• Supports direct tendering, negotiation and implementation of complex and high value contracts to reduce the total cost to the business as required
• Ensures local government and federal government legislation is understood and abided by
• Participates and support activities such that the Procurement team meets the Business Plan and meets Department and Global KPIs.

About You

You will have experience of procurement in construction projects and working with project teams, hold a tertiary qualification (Quantity Surveying/procurement, engineering, business, law is preferred) or similar with preferably experience within the mining and mineral resources industry. Alternatively, you might have experience on the contractor side (engineering/ technical consultancies or construction) with a demonstrated understanding of project delivery.

• Pragmatic commercial outlook and exemplary judgement (balances business value vs. risk) to deliver best outcome for BHP.
• Demonstrated experience with contract law and/or contract management.
• Collaborative mindset and advanced interpersonal skills.
• Highly capable in building constructive long-term relationships.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Autonomous, detail oriented, organised, and objective.
• Advanced written and oral communication skills enabling the influencing of a diverse stakeholder group (frontline to executive).
• Ability to support Procurement Leaders to deliver upon department KPIs.
• Ability to support Project Teams to deliver project KPIs
• Autonomous, detail oriented, organized and objective
• Proficient in MS Office Suite of products, specifically Excel, Word & Power Point

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 .