Specialist Governance

Date: 29 Aug 2025

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country:Australia

Job State/Province: Queensland

Job Location/Region: Bowen Basin

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

Reporting to the Superintendent Governance &Technical Stewardship, you will be responsible for providing specialist technical expertise to the operation. This will involve the execution of tasks associated with providing engineering technical support and ensuring a robust risk and benefit-based assessment process is followed for engineering applications.

This role is based at BMA's Broadmeadow underground mine on a Monday to Friday basis, offering flexible work arrangements.

Core Accountabilities:

• Provide specialist electrical engineering expertise and ensure robust change control processes and documentation standards are followed
• Work in a highly respected team with a culture of helpfulness and trust to create value
• Participate in reviews and audits and collaborate with discipline engineers across BMA
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to solve complex problems
• Develop and contribute to the delivery of improvement initiatives which support business priorities for continuous improvement
• Support and govern the accurate maintenance of the Operation's blueprint (engineering standards, specifications drawings, processes, systems and procedures), ensuring approved modifications of its plant, equipment and infrastructure
• Establish and maintain close working relationships with relevant departments, suppliers, consultants and contractors
• Ensure Safety, Constructability, Operability and Maintainability is preserved throughout the design lifecycle process
• Work in a highly respected team with a culture of helpfulness and trust to create value
• Demonstrate commitment by never breaching procedures, practices or processes required by the Site Safety & Health Management System.
• Validates that material risks for the sub-function are identified and related critical controls are implemented and are effective.
• Provides input into plans, budgets, and targets for the sub-function and delivers against them.
• Identifies and implements Governance &Technical Stewardship improvement initiatives.

About You

As a degree qualified Engineer, you will apply your strong technical skills in a multi-disciplined environment. Additionally, the following attributes will be key to your success:

• Previous site based experience (open cut experience is advantageous).
• Detailed understanding of engineering principles, standards and processes with a demonstrated practical and hands on approach
• The ability to influence and build a relationship with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Being collaborative team player, committed to delivering results and able to operate with a high level of autonomy.
• Self-motivated and energetic person who enjoys working and delivering results in a team environment.

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.

Please note as part of this recruitment process the successful applicant will need to conduct a Queensland legislated coal mine workers' health assessment.

From 1 April 2023, ResHealth will be mandatory for the completion of coal mine workers' health assessments, allowing you to submit, monitor and review the progress of your health assessment in a secure online environment. For more information please go to the ResHealth website.

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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.

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