Lead Shutdown

Date: 4 Sept 2025

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country:Australia

Job State/Province: Western Australia

Job Location/Region: Pilbara

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

As a Shutdown Lead, you will be responsible for guiding a team of professionals coordinating and optimising shutdown activities to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective execution. You will work closely with maintenance, operations, and contractors to deliver shutdowns on time and within budget while maintaining the highest safety standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coach and develop a team of shutdown coordinators to deliver exceptional performance
• Support problem solving initiatives to optimise and improve through each shutdown cycle
• Foster a culture of care, where it is safe to speak up and solve problems as a team
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate shutdown activities in alignment with business objectives
• Develop and maintain shutdown schedules, ensuring resources, materials, and equipment are available
• Liaise with internal teams, contractors, and vendors to ensure seamless execution
• Monitor shutdown progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies
• Ensure compliance with BHP safety standards, policies, and procedures
• Conduct post-shutdown reviews and implement continuous improvement initiatives
• Manage budgets and report on shutdown performance metrics

About You

• Experience managing teams in high pressure environments with an emphasis on development and coaching
• Proven experience in shutdown coordination, preferably in mining or heavy industry
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Knowledge of maintenance planning tools (e.g., SAP, Microsoft Projects) is desirable
• A commitment to safety, teamwork, and delivering results
• Relevant trade or engineering qualifications are highly regarded

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 .