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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 here.
About the Role
Enterprise Mining Probabilistics (EMP) Critical Path Project Management (CPPM) is a new and innovative approach to mine planning for stable, predictable business plan delivery. CPPM specifically centres on managing the site critical paths in execution using a project management approach to reduce variability and increase bottleneck performance, delivering stable mining operations for BMA. A key activity for this process is to sustain a closed loop learning cycle, through embedded Plan Do Check Act cycles.
We are seeking an experienced and safety focused Principal CPPM to join our team at BMA. Reporting to the Superintendent Integrated Planning, this role will be located in Brisbane and will be responsible for the following across major open cut and underground coal operations:
Key responsibilities:
- Ensuring accurate and consistent reporting for KRI risk framework for Resource Development Priority Group Risk KRI#3 Planning Principles Embedment
- Governance of rolling 90-day execution plans and enabling activities
- Oversight of Critical Path Project Management (CPPM) routines
- Verifying discipline in daily, weekly, and monthly execution rhythms
- Verifying Ensuring risks, constraints, and enabling activities are actively managed
- Monitoring and improving Compliance to Plan (C2P) through support in site PPS
- Verifying integration of execution performance into BOS / operational routines
- Governing and supporting the system health of PASPO
- Coaching and uplift of plan execution across sites
- Separation of:
- Medium Term Planning issues (probabilistic planning)
- Execution issues (CPPM) – focus for this role
- External/systemic constraints
- Translation of insights into targeted improvement actions (TIPs)A consistent and structured reconciliation process (Plan vs Actual)
- Clear understanding of why performance deviates
- Integration of learnings back into:
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- CAP cycle
- Critical Path Probabilistic Planning (CPPP) assumptions
- Execution routines
Ensures execution is not reactive—but actively managed using EMP principles and project management disciplines. This role ensures the organisation moves from:
“Reporting variance” → “Understanding cause” → “Driving systemic improvement”
About You
You will bring your critical systems thinking to this role as well as your influencing skills and your genuine passion to promote a culture of diversity and inclusiveness. Your owner’s mindset and focus on embedding continuous learning while maintaining safe operations will be key to your success in this role.
Must be:
- Degree qualified Engineer, preferably Mining
- Extensive experience in open cut coal mining operations
Additional skills/qualifications:
- Demonstrated practical operational leadership experience
- Strong critical and systems thinking skills, with the ability to balance safety, production and cost outcomes
- Experience in mine planning, and demonstrated experience building reconciliation systems in mine planning
- Highly skilled in problem solving (Root Cause Analysis)
- Experience in managing Open Cut Time Usage Models (TUM) and Value Driver Trees (VDT)
- High capability in data analytics, specifically seeking insights and transforming insights into actionable improvement plans, with the ability to influence those action plans at Manager level
- EMP Skills assessment score in line with Tactical / Short term Superintendent (or working towards)
- BHP Operating System experience is highly desirable in particular with leading and facilitating problem solves, and embedding improvement initiatives
- Demonstrated success in leading and managing projects from planning through to completion
- Strong ability to lead, coach, mentor, and transfer skills to operational and project teams
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.
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 inclusion@bhp.com.