Employee Relations

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

An exciting opportunity for a Specialist (Fixed Term; Part-time) and Principal (Fixed Term) level have arisen to join the Employee Relations (ER) team.

These roles will provide coaching and advice to Leaders in managing complex employee relations matters.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Supports the strategy, advisory and management of employee and labour relations matters and outcomes within the business.
• Makes evidence based and strategic decisions in alignment with longer term business objectives.
• Identifies, engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.
• Applies an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.
• Engages the capabilities of the entire organisation.
• Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
• Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs.

About You

• Has a depth of experience supporting leaders across all case management areas of ER including workplace investigations, performance management and disciplinary processes.
• Possesses a strong knowledge of the Australian industrial relations landscape, bargaining and union engagement and legal requirements.
• Previous exposure to working in mining, heavy industry or professional services environment will be beneficial for this role.
• Proactive and strategic in thinking and take a risk-based approach to your work.
• Has experience working in a fast-paced and high volume environment, you are agile in your approach whilst being able to deliver on multiple priorities.

This role will be required to travel to site regularly, approximately 3 days a fortnight.

Talk to us about the flexible working options in this team.

Open for applications until 8-Oct-2025.

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