Specialist Safety

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

We're excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced safety professional to join the Prominent Hill HSSEM team as a Safety Specialist, supporting our PHOX Project.

Reporting to the Safety Superintendent, you'll play a key role in providing expert advice, coaching, and support to leaders across site, helping to drive a strong safety culture and continuous improvement.

This role is based at our Prominent Hill mine and offered on a 4:3 (Days only) FIFO roster from Adelaide or Port Augusta.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Project Delivery Team in their accountability for HSE risk management, field leadership, event investigation, and compliance to HSE requirements, including the contractor management framework;
• Provide on-the-ground coaching to personnel and contractor partners on safety systems and practices.
• Review the quality of HSE risk assessments, event investigations and field leadership;
• Coach, influence and provide technical expertise to support the continuous improvement of HSE capacity and capability within the PHOX Project and contracting partners;
• Support line leadership in building an understanding of, and compliance with, relevant HSE Our Requirements (GLD) and legal requirements; and
• Provide support in safety assurance and governance activities.
• Analyse safety data to identify trends and recommend improvement initiatives.
• Participate in and support site safety routines and meetings.
• Deliver training on safety systems and processes.
• Facilitate and / or Lead investigation and learning activities.
• Champion field leadership and hazard awareness programs.

About You

You're a proactive and self-driven safety professional with a passion for coaching and influencing positive change. You bring:

• Previous experience in a site based construction and or commissioning safety-focused role.
• Minimum Certificate IV in Occupational Health & Safety (OHS).
• An overriding commitment to BHPs Charter Values;
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence at multiple levels in safety, with both internal and external parties;
• Coaching and mentoring skills with a genuine desire to help people, achieve solid outcomes and support continuous improvement;
• Ability to self-motivate, manage priorities and consume data to effectivity deliver HSE support;
• Strong attention to detail to support HSE accountability for function and project teams; and
• A current South Australian "C" class motor vehicle licence or equivalent.

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