Engineer Reliability

Date: 20 Oct 2025

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Job Country:Australia

Job State/Province: Queensland

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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

Your role as the Specialist Reliability Engineer – Electrical will be to provide technical support to the Maintenance team by applying Reliability Centred Maintenance principles in driving defect elimination, improvement initiatives and identifying opportunities to support safe and reliable operations. Establishing and maintaining relationships with the maintenance, production, planning and engineering teams will be critical to ensure success in this role.

This position is based at BMA Hay Point Terminal and is offered as a 5/2 Roster - this role is open to Mackay residential applicants only as this site does not provide for FIFO or camp.

Key accountabilities include:

• Develop and optimise maintenance strategies that enable plant safety, reliability and performance to be maximised;
• Increase the capability of the maintenance execution team to drive safety, reliability, efficiency, quality of work
• Analyse life of equipment to determine equipment capability and optimisation of maintenance activities;
• Closely monitor equipment performance in relation to cost, performance and reliability and complete targeted root cause analysis (RCA). Develop and implement subsequent improvement actions and monitor their effectiveness;
• Provide coaching to the maintenance execution team in regard to defect elimination and root cause analysis;

About You

• Demonstrated experience in a similar role
• Extensive experience in applying reliability principles in port, mining, minerals processing or similar heavy industry environment
• A trade background degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management or an extensive related experience will be advantageous
• Ability to influence, engage and communicate with stakeholders effectively across all levels of the business
• Demonstrated ability to lead and problem solve – make plans, take initiative to identify improvements and implement effectively

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