Principal Product Owner

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

The Digital WAIO Planning & Scheduling team builds and operates reliable, safe and impactful planning and scheduling technology across Port, Rail and Mines, spanning daily execution through to tactical and strategic horizons.

As Principal Product Owner, you will work closely with the WAIO asset to shape a clear, value-driven roadmap for Planning and Scheduling for Port and Rail. You will lead a high-performing team of digital SMEs to deliver and sustain reliable, safe, high-impact solutions that transform safety, productivity, cost and people performance. You will drive continuous improvement and cost optimisation, build trusted, influential stakeholder relationships, and manage complex cross-functional dependencies. You will balance fast-paced value delivery with disciplined, resilient service management.

As a successful Principal Product Owner, you will:

• Be connected to the voice of the customer and work collaboratively with asset stakeholders to develop a product roadmap aligned with business value
• Influence, engage and manage a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders from asset and technology.
• Have a business value mindset to support the asset in solving for the problems that will lead to the greatest value.
• Be responsible for wellbeing of the product team.
• Have an agile and DevOps mindset and coach team to build this into the foundation of what we do.
• Provides guidance and support to the team to help prioritise work and resolve blockers.
• Collaborate with digital counterparts to identify opportunities to simplify application landscape through consolidation, replication and scaling.
• Deliver effective and timely responses to service requests, resolves incidents/problems, and manages the Technology service catalogue.
• Collaborate with asset stakeholders to define value drivers and determine the boundaries of an opportunity to determine if it is worth further investment.
• Responsible for the management and control of capital projects and operational demand.
• Lead problem management and root cause analysis for issues and risks.
• Support management of vendor selection, contracts and performance to maximize operational and financial outcome and mitigate Asset’s exposure to service availability risk.
• Apply BOS to strive to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.

About You

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience in leading product delivery and/or operational service teams within a technology-driven environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of service requirements and how to effectively manage the end-to-end lifecycle of digital product.
• Demonstrated ability in leading, influencing and collaborating with critical external vendors that are integral to delivering outcomes for customers and the business. Demonstrated ability to create an environment that inspires growth, innovation and problem solving where people feel empowered and can bring their whole selves to work.
• Demonstrated capability to navigate and deliver change in technology environments, coordinating decision‑makers and teams while maintaining business stakeholder confidence and buy‑in.
• A growth mindset that enjoys strategic and divergent thinking, experimenting, and going outside your comfort zone.
• Strong communication skills and experience influencing across different levels of the business
• Experience building a team culture of safety, collaboration, transparency and trust.
• Understanding business strategic value levers that can be unlocked through technology.
• WAIO supply chain knowledge and experience considered a bonus.
• Technical background, understanding of technical complexities and solution’s design considered a bonus.

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.