Studies Engineer

Date: 28 Oct 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.

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Current Opportunities:

BHP WA Iron Ore Directional Studies invites expressions of interest from Senior Project Engineers/ Engineering Managers, and Study Managers keen to support large, complex early-stage studies. These roles report to the Manager Studies.

The Directional Studies team plays a pivotal role in shaping BHP's major capital projects. Through Opportunity Assessments and Identification Phase Studies, the team provides the strategic foundation for investment decisions. These studies are critical to stabilising the project environment, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring that risks and value drivers are clearly understood prior to transitioning a preferred investment alternative to the Projects function.

• The Engineering role (12 Month Contract) within Directional Studies serves as the primary technical interface with engineering service providers. Responsibilities include facilitating the development and review of technical deliverables, contributing to project cost estimates and schedules, and coordinating input from subject matter experts across disciplines.

• Study Leaders are accountable for synthesising business strategic drivers and priorities to define a preferred investment alternative. This alternative will then be progressed by the Projects team for further development and execution.

Required Experience and Background:

To be successful in either role:

• You will thrive in dynamic and evolving study environments and bring proven experience in shaping and delivering studies or managing engineering within early-stage project phases.
• You will demonstrate strong problem-solving capabilities and the ability to influence outcomes across a broad stakeholder landscape.
• Exceptional communication skills are essential, enabling effective engagement at all levels of the organisation.
• Your capacity to navigate complexity and ambiguity with confidence and clarity will be a key asset in contributing to the success of the Directional Studies team.
• Studies Engineer - Engineering Degree
• Study Lead - Tertiary qualification

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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.

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