About BHP

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About the Role

The Operational Performance Insights (OPI) team is a new global team within Technical. The role works in partnership with Asset leaders and sites to drive sustained embedment and maturity of the spatial compliance to plan process, systems and routines across Olympic Dam and Nickel West. Our aim is to enable improvement in spatial compliance and productivity across all planning and scheduling horizons, to achieve the asset spatial C2P and productivity goals.

We are seeking a mining professional for the role of Specialist Operational Performance Insights to report to the Superintendent C2P (Compliance to Plan) within Operational Performance Insights to support Olympic Dam and Nickel West.

Specialist Operational Performance Insights – Olympic Dam and Nickel West will:

• Work in partnership with the assets and sites to understand the current C2P performance, as well as focus areas for improvement
  
• Contribute to Operational Performance Insights reporting routines as the subject matter expert for OD and NIW.
  
• Work with sites to embed and maintain fit for purpose C2P routines
  
• Monitor sites weekly and monthly C2P routines
  
• Train stakeholders in the use of OPI tools/ dashboards
  
• Continuously improve data quality for plan and actual data, and engage with stakeholders to resolve any issues
  
• Development and promotion of new dashboard features and applications to Customers within the Business

Being a part of a team that looks across Minerals Australia and Minerals America, this role offers excellent development opportunities with a team dedicated to quality insights and continuous improvement.

The opportunity is based in Adelaide with some site travel required.

About You

You will have worked in a professional mining environment and are familiar with various mining horizons and mining techniques. The succesful candidate will have a curious mind that seeks to understand ‘why’ and ask the appropriate questions to establish the root cause.

You will be able to establish credibility through your technical ability, listening to our users and excellent communication skills. You will be comfortable working in complex matrix work environments and be able to navigate stakeholders across two assets. An ability to constructively question ideas and results and build trusted relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders will be essential.

Minimum requirements that this candidate will bring are:

• Minimum 4 years professional experience
  
• Worked as either a mine planner/ scheduler, geologist, or analysist. Preferably with underground mining experience
  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with multiple layers of the organisational structure
  
• Strong understanding of mine planning and or production activities
  
• Understanding of production and planning data
  
• Ability to work remotely from your team, and leader
  
• Be a well organised self-starter that can manage multiple deadlines across multiple time horizons
  
• Ability to prepare and deliver high quality presentations and insights

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance based bonuses and unique BHP 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.