Manager Portfolio Engineering

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 seeking a forward thinking and talented individual to take on the key role of Portfolio Engineering Manager across the Copper South Australia (CuSA) Major Projects. This is an exciting opportunity for a high performing professional to work with a range of senior stakeholders where your contribution will have a significant impact on the business.

The role is based in Adelaide, reporting directly into the Director Technical CuSa Major Projects and will sit on the CuSA Technical Lead Team. The role will be responsible for engineering and quality performance and outcomes across all phases and projects within the specific program. The role will provide leadership to a highly skilled and diverse team, focused on all aspects of engineering and quality through project framing, development and execution of plans, assurance over process and outcomes and integration into construction and handover.

The Manager will be the key driver for improved performance and effectiveness from our Owner’s Team and Service Providers. As a leading contributor and key advisor, you will deliver on your accountabilities with an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility, and sustainable development.

Key accountabilities will include:

• Development of the project engineering and quality strategy, plans, standards, processes, and systems for capital projects to ensure optimum delivery across the portfolio.
• Responsible to the Study/Project Manager to ensure that integrated project scope, cost, schedule, value and risk requirements are met.
• Leads performance management of service providers at a portfolio level, including drive for engineering effectiveness and capital efficiency.
• Manages resource availability of project engineering, discipline engineering and quality personnel to provide:
  • Support during engineering design development, detailed engineering and fabrication.
  • In field support during execution and handover.
  • Engineering change management during development and delivery.
• Respectfully and professionally, influence stakeholders to drive optimised outcomes.
• Collaborates with project and operational teams to ensure that engineering is developed and executed in accordance with identified methodologies, strategies and systems.
• Ensures creation of an environment in which internal lessons learned and external best practices are part of the operational processes and manages the measurement and continuous improvement of performance, recommending any changes required to identify capital efficiency initiatives and productivity improvements.
• Identifies talent and capability and provides input to broader talent plans to enable development of a high performing team.
• Working in a proactive business culture with a supportive management structure, and leveraging off your extensive experience, you will have the chance to promote business excellence through your team and you'll make full use of your broad range of skills in the areas of continuous improvement, technical knowledge, business acumen and communication.

About You

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Engineering Management experience within a EPCM major project for large infrastructure mining or oil and gas.
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering or a trade qualification with relevant experience in Project Management.
• Senior leadership experience and managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong understanding of safe operations and safe behavior fundamentals and the ability to meet multiple deadlines.
• Proactive, credible and influential, you relate well with people, communicating confidently and building strong working relationships with key stakeholders.
• This is an opportunity to have a real business impact and influence the way decisions are made.

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.