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.

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Our Operations - Olympic Dam

Join Olympic Dam a safe, reliable, global business delivered by our people. At Olympic Dam we care that everyone goes home safe to do the things they love. We believe Leadership drives culture and culture drives performance. All incidents are preventable, and everyone has a role to play. One of Australia’s largest mines and a complex minerals processing operation.

Olympic Dam, is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping and cultural facilities.

About The Role

We are currently recruiting for qualified and experienced Mechanical Maintenance Fitters to join our Surface Operations Team. The role will work a roster of 7/7 rotating day/night FIFO from Adelaide, DIDO from regional SA or Residential Roxby Downs.

Reporting to the Supervisor of the Fixed Plant team, your role will be primarily based on the surface liaising closely with underground mine personnel and interacting with multiple other departments. You will be involved in executing planned and unplanned maintenance tasks, as well as helping to ensure any plant downtime issues are escalated and actioned effectively.

In this role you will:-

• Comply to and consistently follow the standards and procedures designed to enable you to work safely and effectively every day
• Develop close working relationships with operations personnel to ensure that all plant downtime issues are escalated correctly and remedied promptly
• Provide continual feedback to the maintenance supervisor on job/task progress
• Have a commitment to look after your own and the teams wellbeing, confidence to mentor safety related issues and speak up to coach and prevent harm
• Be responsible for the execution of activities across shifts and other departments in order to safely add value and improve efficiencies
• Provide technical expertise within the maintenance team whilst facilitating preventative and reactive maintenance activities
• Foster collaborative and productive working relationships across all internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrate an overriding commitment to working in and promoting a healthy, safe, environmentally responsible and sustainable workplace
• Be active in identifying and communicating improvements to procedures, processes or plant and participate in problem solving and troubleshooting of plant issues as required

About you

• Proven commitment to look after your own wellbeing and the confidence to speak up when others put themselves in harm’s way
• Mechanical trade qualifications and experience with Fixed Plant.
• Prior experience working at the CAF Plant, Raise Bores and Mining Operations knowledge highly regarded
• Rigger, Dogger, Franna, Confined Space Entry, Working at Heights and Bridge & Gantry tickets also advantageous
• Solid time management skills and ability to prioritise
• A proactive team player who is also self-motivated and able to work effectively unsupervised
• Ability to communicate well across multiple levels and disciplines
• Experience with maintenance software and detailed record keeping
• Sound computer skills or previous 1SAP Experience would be beneficial

APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 25th March 2025 at Midnight SA Time

BENEFITS

BHP offers an array of attractive perks to our employees, not limited to annual bonus, shares program, employee recognition program, heavily discounted global corporate discounts, employee perk app, attractive parental policies and so much more. To hear more about the benefits we offer our employees, please take a moment to play Why choose BHP for your career? Play here or at the footer of this vacancy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W541c1oeLmE

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.