Electrical Supervisor | NiW- West Musgrave | FIFO | 8/6 Roster

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Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role

Western Australia Nickel’s West Musgrave operation is located on Ngaanyatjarra lands, approximately 135 km west of the WA/SA/NT border. Employees access site via a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) arrangement from Perth.

We are seeking an Electrical Supervisor to lead Site Services at West Musgrave. This is a critical leadership position responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of key infrastructure supporting the aerodrome, village, mining, and processing facilities during care and maintenance.

Reporting to the Manager West Musgrave, this role operates on an 8/6 FIFO dayshift roster.

The successful candidate will provide strong frontline supervision and safety leadership to electrical personnel, while coordinating planned maintenance, breakdown response, and continuous improvement initiatives across the site.

BHP announced that its Nickel West operations and the West Musgrave project will be temporarily suspended from October 2024, with a review of this decision planned by February 2027. During this period, BHP will continue to invest approximately AU$450 million (US$300 million) per annum to maintain the Western Australia Nickel facilities and preserve the option for a potential restart.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a high-level working knowledge of BHP procedures and safety processes.
• Ensure all work complies with statutory requirements, site standards and electrical safety management systems
• Manage contractors and ensure compliance with site safety and quality standards
• Planning and scheduling maintenance activities and preservation activities
• Ensuring statutory compliance of all electrical assets, fire systems and environment
• Attending breakdown maintenance of village services
• Supervision of staff and contractors in the following areas; Village, aerodrome, semi-constructed mineral processing plant
• Provide support to land and dispatch aircraft at our own aerodrome
• Supporting our emergency response team by being a key member

About You

You will have experience with the operation and maintenance of electrical assets. A key strength is your ability to communicate effectively, ensuring the development of team members through relationship management skills. You will be a proactive, credible, and influential member of the leadership team whilst building trusted, collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders.

Experience, skills and qualifications required include:

• WA "A grade" Electrical Licence (essential)
• Schedule 26 Statutory Supervisor qualification (required prior to starting)
• Experienced Supervisor with the ability to step up as Alternate Site Senior Executive
• 1SAP/FIORI, planning and work management experience
• Strong safety leadership and safety event management experience
• Positive and motivated people leader with a focus on culture

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. 

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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.