Specialist Structural Engineering

Date: 17 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country:Australia

Job State/Province: South Australia

Job Location/Region: Roxby Downs

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

In this statutory role you will be accountable for being part of a team maintaining assets supporting the safe and efficient operation of BHP's Olympic Dam Site.

The team is responsible for strategic inspection, maintenance and defect rectification for concrete and steel structures across this mature site.

Based at Olympic Dam, this role can be offered on a variety of rosters that enable work to fit best with your lifestyle as either FIFO ex-Adelaide or residential.

Reporting to the Superintendent Major Maintenance, you will have responsibility for the following:

• An overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development.
• Review previous inspection reports in AIMS and 1SAP.
• Scope review and approval
• Defect review and classification
• Review of as built structural drawings.
• Field inspection of concrete and steel structures.
• Identification and reporting of defects with risk ranking.
• Reporting of new defects and changes to existing defects as per AIMS standard.
• Follow 1SAP work management process including daily time confirmations and raising of defects with priorities.
• Provide scope to complete repairs within inspector's qualifications.
• Participate and lead Problem solving, 5s, MIP and all BOS routines.
• Conduct and complete role confirmations, maintain a WILO.
• Identify, rectify and report through EMS hazards in the workplace.
• Field Leadership verification focused on safety of our people.

About You

• Chartered Structural Engineering qualification (recognised by Engineers Australia).
• 5 years Structural and Civil engineering experience (which includes 2 years' experience with condition inspections of concrete and steel structures and 3 years' experience in design commissioning, maintenance or operations).
• Knowledge of Asset Integrity Inspection application desirable.
• Excel and word experience required with 1SAP work management experience advantageous.
• Must be able to work at a high standard autonomously.
• Proven commitment to safety.
• Demonstrate the confidence to lead by example, hold yourself and others accountable and coach others in 'Safety Leadership'.

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.

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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.

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 .