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
Reporting to the BOS Lead (HSS), this position is accountable for building the maturity of the BHP Operating System (BOS) and delivery of continuous improvement initiatives for the site by effectively influencing and collaborating across departments and workstreams.
BOS is a way of leading and working that makes improvement part of what we do every day and focuses on Serving Our Customers, Pursuing Operation Perfection and Empowering Our People.
We are looking for someone who can balance the agility required to improve and innovate with the operating discipline required to deliver safe and reliable performance. Someone who can help teams understand their current state, define a clear future state, and use BOS principles, problem solving, coaching and standardised work to turn today's improvements into tomorrow's performance.
We are looking for Specialists to support our Central as well as Northern sites.
Key Responsibilities:
Enable a high performing improvement culture at all levels within the operation, focusing coaching activities at frontline teams and managers
Assist site leaders with the identification, prioritisation, problem solving and implementation of frontline improvement
Assist site management in monitoring and building BOS capability across the site, identifying local training needs and conducting presentations, workshops and training using storytelling to connect, influence and engage the audience
Build the operational site teams’ ability to problem solve and continually improve their work based on Standardised Work, replicating and sharing best practices within high impact repetitive activities to make frontline work safer, easier, and better
Enable the growth and utilisation of Standardised Work (SW) within the operation, including creating new and updating existing SW
Enable the core systems associated with the improvement at the site, assisting operational teams in accessing, using, and managing information in CoreWork, BrightSpot, MyBOS, SW Field App, SW Builder App, Signavio, WAVE and KaiNexus
Identify, implement, and evaluate the success of continuous improvement activities/initiatives to enhance the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of BHP systems and processes while identifying, engaging and managing a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders
Drive focused system and principle improvements with agile methodology to improve behaviours and results
About You
Strong operational or maintenance background with frontline credibility and a passion for helping teams improve how work gets done while maintaining safe, reliable and disciplined execution.
Experience designing, implementing and continuously improving standardised work, operating systems and routines that create consistency today while enabling performance improvements for tomorrow.
A skilled problem solver who can connect current-state challenges to future-state opportunities, uncover root causes, challenge assumptions and help teams turn problems into sustainable outcomes.
Comfortable balancing agility with discipline, knowing when to adapt, experiment and learn, and when to hold the line on critical standards, controls and ways of working.
Tech-savvy and curious about how digital tools, data and AI can simplify work, improve decision-making and accelerate continuous improvement.
Skilled at coaching leaders and teams to build capability, strengthen ownership and create the conditions for lasting behavioural and performance change.
Passionate about continuous improvement and helping teams bridge the gap between where they are today and where they need to be tomorrow.
Able to partner effectively across operational and functional teams to embed BOS practices, improve routines, align effort to value and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Comfortable working in ambiguity and complexity, using BOS principles to create clarity, prioritise improvement opportunities and develop the future ways of working needed to achieve strategic objectives.
Energised by the challenge of building a culture where disciplined execution, continuous learning and continuous improvement work together to drive safer, simpler and more reliable performance.
Experience, skills and qualifications required include:
Must have strong background in BOS, improvement or qualifications in six sigma, lean and digital systems and data insights capability.
Background in site operations or maintenance and knowledge of how Health and Safety functions support operations.
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 inclusion@bhp.com.
