Principal Data

Date: 28 Oct 2025

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Job Country:Australia

Job State/Province: Various Locations

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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

The Maintenance Budgeting Solution (MBS) supports Maintenance Budget Developers in creating and managing work management budgets and forecasts.

Reporting to the Manager MBS and working within the Maintenance Centre of Excellence (MECoE), this role is responsible for all data-driven processes within the MBS team. The position spans business-as-usual activities such as reporting, data governance, continuous improvement, and supporting investigations, as well as supporting asset deployment during new operation onboarding.

You will join a small but high-performing team responsible for supporting the MBS and enabling maintenance and engineering teams to achieve exceptional performance today and into the future. This role will provide exposure to:

• Creation and maintenance of Power BI reports and dashboards, including future-state implementation of enterprise data platforms (e.g., Snowflake).
• Advising on process and governance improvements within the MBS framework, including documentation and knowledge capture.
• Creation and maintenance of MBS data artefacts and supporting cross-discipline reviews and benchmarking.
• Deployment of new assets under the MBS framework, including data preparation, validation, and integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance Power BI reporting workspaces and pipelines; deliver workshops and upskilling sessions.
• Create and maintain Snowflake schemas and views; support investigations and "deep dives" for data issues.
• Drive process and governance improvements, including updating documentation and creating clear guides to capture team knowledge and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with governance standards and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Prepare and validate data extracts for new asset deployments; liaise with Budget Developers, Master Data Owners, and TechOps.

About You

Critical Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in SQL and Power BI; familiarity with Snowflake.
• Strong analytical and investigation skills with attention to data quality and integrity.
• Experience in data governance, reporting, and process improvement.
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and communicate effectively across teams.
• Competence in project management and change management principles.
• Collaborative mindset with strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience with SAP and an understanding of its underlying maintenance data structures and models.

Nice to have (non-critical):

• Experience with SharePoint workflows and automation.
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms beyond Snowflake.

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 .