Specialist Emergency Services

Date: 18 Sept 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 Role

Reporting to the Emergency Services Supervisor, the Emergency Services Specialist (2IC) is a proactive and inclusive leader, supporting the supervisor and emergency response team safely achieve emergency response discipline outcomes. They facilitate day to day emergency team activities and contribute to the improvement of emergency response capabilities.

The role is responsible for leading a diverse team of emergency professionals and volunteers and acting in the role of supervisor when required. You will be responsible to maintain operational readiness, equipment inspection, maintenance and assisting with the safe facilitation of emergency response activities.

Please note this position is based at Carrapateena, operating FIFO from Adelaide or Port Augusta on a job share roster working 7 nights on, 7 days off, 8 days on, 34 days off.

In this role you will:

• Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care, by being a visible safety leader, engaging, developing, and coaching your team,
• Ensure that operational emergency response readiness is maintained, including meeting team training requirements and the inspection and maintenance equipment and vehicles,
• Proactively collaborate with work areas, fostering positive and productive working relationships by conducting work area inspections, in-field task observations and verifying critical control effectiveness
• Plan, manage, and deliver projects that generate value and drive the achievement of project outcomes.
• Identify and assess risks, make risk informed decisions, use BHP's risk management framework, and build a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Prioritise work effort and resources accordingly

About You

Required:

• Certificate III in Mine Emergency Response and Rescue or equivalent
• Certificate IV in Health Care or equivalent / higher
• HR Drivers License
• Minimum of C class driver's license
• TAE – Training and Assessment

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience in leading and managing industrial emergency response teams.

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 .