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 Olympic Dam - Our Operations

Join Olympic Dam - a safe, reliable, globally competitive business delivered by our people. We care that everyone goes home safely to do the things they love. Leadership is key to driving positive workplace culture, and this drives performance. All incidents are preventable and everyone has a role to play.

As one of Australia's largest mines and most complex minerals processing operations, it's quite 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

The Control Room Specialist safely and competently operates monitors, and reviews operations on a shift-by-shift basis to achieve safety and production targets.

This is done by adhering to operating requirements and striving for the achievement of individual, team, and site objectives as directed.

We currently have vacancies for Refinery, Smelter, AP/FP, and Hydromet.

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.
• Assist Shift Supervisor by monitoring the performance of equipment and tasks to ensure productivity is safely maximised.
• Operate the relevant plant in a safe manner from the Control Room using Citect.
• Monitor and improve plant throughput and processes, via communications with Production Technicians and by use of Citect and other Business systems.
• Establish collaborative working relationships within the work team and other departments
• Ensure effective exchange of information at shift changeover
• Identify and engage with other teams, to ensure maximum utilisation of time and resources
• Embracing process safety methodology for the operation of the assets through the review and development of processes and procedures.
• Demonstrate initiative in situations where sufficient process knowledge/competency exists and use of escalation procedure when faced with unfamiliar issues
• Train other specialists and technicians, utilising the control room training framework.
• Develop skills in Plant Operation across multiple areas.
• Use SAP to enter maintenance notifications, and maintain adequate consumable supplies, as well as for entering and investigating incidents as required.
• Contribute to and support the Shift Supervisor’s decisions and communicate these to team members.

About You

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

• Demonstrate the confidence to lead by example, hold yourself and others accountable, and coach others in ‘Safety Leadership’.
• Experience using control systems including or similar to CITECT / SCADA, and OSI PI.
• Ability to work effectively within the Olympic Dam operations and functional teams.
• Collaborative and able to communicate across multiple levels and disciplines.
• Ability to interpret critical information and make decisions.
• Enthusiast to learn new skills and accept challenges.
• Good computer literacy with the ability to use SAP to enter maintenance notifications, order consumables, and incident investigations.

Location

In this full-time permanent role, you will have an option eitherRoxby Downs residential based or FIFO from Adelaide. You will be working on a 7-day shift, 7 days off, 7-night shift, and 7 days off roster.

A role at Olympic Dam allows you to balance your work and family commitments, with the flexibility to change these as your life evolves. To find out more click here.

Roxby Down is located about 560 kilometers north of Adelaide and about 1 hr flights from Olympic Dam Airport. Estimate population of 4,500 this town offer a community lifestyle with all the necessities you wish such as school, pool, art gallery, cinema, community library, community center, sports club etc. To find out more about living in Roxby Downs click here, while detail about lifestyle in Roxby Down clicks here.

While Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beachside lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants, and world-class wine regions just an hour away. All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar make Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in.

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.

BHP also requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people (from the 31st of January 2022 or earlier depending on relevant state health directives). If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this new requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce. For further information please see our website (LINK)

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people.

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.

Reference Number – 50104

• You may be requested to complete a video assessment as part of the initial recruitment process.
• We reserve the right to commence recruitment proceedings immediately.
• This opportunity is currently only open to candidates with the right to work in Australia.
• Application closes on Monday, 28th March 2022. While Virtual Assessment closes on Thursday, 31st March 2022 (not applicable for Internal Applicants). Please note late applications will not be accepted.