Indigenous Only Opportunities | Indigenous Liaison Specialists | Copper South Australia

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 Role

We are currently seeking applications from interested and appropriately qualified individuals to join our multi skilled and engaging team. The Specialist Indigenous Support will help shape Copper South Australia's future as a culturally and socially responsible organisation that is respectfully engaged with its Indigenous workforce.

The purpose of this role is to support and connect with Indigenous employees and their leaders, to help strengthen retention and wellbeing and create a culturally safe working environment.

In this role you will be required to:

• Continuously develop and implement our effective, culturally appropriate support and engagement program across our Copper South Australia sites including, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Olympic Dam.
• Support leaders to understand Indigenous employees cultural and social norms and experiences.
• Provide individualised and personalised employment related support, including mentoring, coaching, support planning and case management.
• Lead initiatives to support the retention and wellbeing of our Indigenous employees to ensure a positive employee experience.
• Promote Indigenous cultural awareness coaching and mentoring sessions for key personnel in leadership roles with responsibility for contributing to the goal of development and retention of Indigenous staff.
• Establish and maintain links with associated and relevant Indigenous support agencies.
• Partner with the operations to identify and promote development opportunities for Indigenous employees across the business.
• Conduct regular Audits and report on development, challenges and opportunities, while ensuring confidentiality of employee details.

About You

• Experience mentoring, coaching and providing case management and support to Indigenous employees
• Experience working within the mining industry (desirable)
• Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships with site leaders and networks within a business or organisation
• The ability to contribute as a team player and work independently to achieve the desired accountabilities
• Comprehensive knowledge of Indigenous challenges and barriers that impact Indigenous people seeking and maintaining employment
• Skills and experience in problem solving and conflict resolution and the ability to demonstrate where these have supported business development in previous roles
• Experience in planning and coordinating structured programs and activities for diverse groups and reporting on outcomes and impact
• Ability to work in a complex and changing environment
• Excellent communication (verbal, written) skills
• Knowledge, experience and understanding of Indigenous culture
• Experience working with Indigenous people
• Case management and support planning experience
• Conflict resolution and mediation skills (desired)
• Ability to influence change

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.