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 MECoE
BHP's Maintenance and Engineering Centre of Excellence (MECoE) are the coming together of a dedicated, innovative team focused on identifying, achieving and maintaining the highest standards in maintenance for BHP globally. Your diversity of thought and experience will be embraced and you will be empowered to make a real difference in our business.
You will utilise innovative approaches, tools and technology to add real value to our teams – setting new standards to guide improvement activity, transforming services and supporting our people.
About the Role
BHP’s Data Analytics team manages critical maintenance datasets and delivers data-driven diagnostics that help improve maintenance productivity and cost outcomes across BHP's global operations. Combining advanced analytics with deep operational understanding, the team partners with operations to identify improvement opportunities and support evidence-based decision making.
As a Specialist Data Science within the Data Analytics team, you will play a key role in developing and improving trusted data and analytics products that support maintenance performance and decision-making across BHP. Leveraging BHP’s extensive datasets and modern data technologies, you will design, develop and maintain scalable data products, analytical solutions and insights that help our customers understand performance, identify opportunities and make better-informed decisions
The Specialist Data Science will be working collaboratively alongside other data scientists and analysts, performance and improvement specialists, and operations and business subject matter experts to level up BHP’s maintenance productivity.
This is a Brisbane based role offering permanent opportunity working Monday to Friday. Flexible working options are available.
In this role, you will:
- Investigate complex problems using a structured problem-solving approach
- Write code and conduct analysis utilising a range of technologies and techniques
- Build and enhance scalable data and analytics products using modern technologies.
- Drive improvements in data quality, automation and standardisation
- Work closely with stakeholders and SMEs to formulate asset management strategies from insights.
- Confidently present ideas, results, and recommendations to stakeholders at all organisational levels
About You
You will have a related tertiary qualification and demonstrated experience in supporting business improvement strategies and initiatives.
You will:
- Have strong analytical, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
- Have experience programming in Python and SQL to:
- Build descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive modelling
- Perform structured and unstructured data mining
- Be a collaborative team player that is results orientated
- Thrive in dynamic, fast paced teams.
Other highly regarded experience includes:
- Have experience in exploring and proposing new ideas that may have benefits for the business
- Asset Management experience in mining, manufacturing, or similar heavy industry
- Experience working in engineering and/or management consulting
- Experience using Power BI
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.