Lead Reliability

Date: 17 Aug 2025

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country:Australia

Job State/Province: South Australia

Job Location/Region: Adelaide

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 Roles

BHP Olympic Dam currently has opportunities for two Reliability Leads to join the Surface Maintenance Front End Reliability team in both Strategy and Improvement.

These roles are highly aligned to those with outstanding communication skills together with previous leadership and technical reliability background.

These roles are based in Adelaide on a Monday-Friday hybrid basis. Regular travel to site is required.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and managing a small team of reliability engineers and specialists to provide technical support to maintenance teams and conduct problem-solving activities to eliminate equipment defects across Olympic Dam's Concentrator, Hydromet, Water, and supporting electrical infrastructure.
• Exercise a proficient level of technical knowledge and expertise to independently make informed decisions and provide engineering support to execution.
• Regularly measuring operational results against defined benchmarks and analyses business metrics to determine and monitor when contingency plans should be implemented.
• Conduct thorough problem-solving and/or investigations into plant performance issues and implement sustainable solutions to mitigate risk. Conduct peer reviews and coaching of problem-solving activities to ensure consistency in quality and outcome.
• Sourcing information, plans and conducts analyses to support evidence-based decision making to maximise reliability of plant.
• Coaching and developing team members' technical skills to support business requirements whilst managing capacity and demand.
• Understanding and applying the relevant requirements and standards relating to the management and treatment of risk.
• Fostering effective and productive working relationships across all internal and external stakeholders.
• Driving a continuous improvement mindset by actively identifying, developing, and delivering improvement opportunities and initiatives to eliminate waste.
• Managing stakeholder needs and expectations.

About You

• Degree qualification in Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronic Engineering or equivalent.
• Demonstrated background in Reliability engineering with a focus on providing maintenance support and delivering continuous improvement initiatives.
• Previous experience leading teams and direct reports.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative approach to finding practical solutions.
• Highly engaged, collaborative, and committed to building mutually beneficial relationships across functional teams.
• Have strong operating discipline and organisational skills with the ability to effectively prioritise tasks and work both independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in BHP systems, including SAP, work management and the BHP Operating System, will be an advantage.
• Strong communication skills.

At BHP and within the OD Reliability team, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity and by developing our people. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect.

How to Apply

Please apply before 30 August 2025

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.

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