Specialist Data Management

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 Geoscience Systems and Data Management team is seeking a motivated and collaborative Specialist Data Management professional to join WAIO Geoscience.

Come and be a part of a diverse, inclusive, and technical team working towards our purpose of “delivering orebody knowledge to realise our full potential”. We enable high‑quality, trusted and accessible geoscience data to characterise Western Australian Iron Ore (WAIO) mineral inventory across both strategic and tactical time horizons for our customers. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, integrity, security, and availability of WAIO Geoscience data, supporting Geoscientists to extract maximum value from drilling and field data.

Reporting to the Superintendent Geoscience Systems and Data Management, this G10 role forms part of a highly experienced team of geoscience data and systems specialists.

You will be responsible for managing WAIO’s critical geoscience datasets including drillhole and field mapping data across exploration, tactical drilling, RCGC, geotechnical, hydrogeological, geometallurgical and closure planning programs and enabling their effective integration into downstream modelling, evaluation, and decision‑making processes.

This role offers the opportunity to deepen your technical expertise across geoscience systems, SQL‑based data platforms, data governance, automation, and cloud technologies, while contributing to continuous improvement and change initiatives across the broader Resource Characterisation function.

About the role

As a key member of the Geoscience Systems and Data Management team within WAIO | Resource Characterisation, you will:

• Administer and maintain Geosciences’ centralised drilling database, ensuring system reliability, performance, and availability
• Perform data loading, validation, transformation, and integrity checks across the drillhole data lifecycle
• Manage and support Geoscience data quality processes in alignment with defined data standards and Data Steward requirements
• Provide subject matter expertise and support to Geoscience teams for the planning, collection, management and use of drilling and field mapping data
• Deliver help‑desk support and advanced troubleshooting for Geoscience systems and data management issues
• Develop, maintain, and optimise SQL queries, stored procedures and database objects to support reporting, analytics, and operational workflows
• Contribute to Geoscience systems and data initiatives, including platform upgrades, process improvements, and automation opportunities
• Support the design and improvement of data governance, documentation, and operational procedures
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability and data value through automation and database optimisation across on‑premise and cloud environments
• Engage and Collaborate with Geoscience and Technology business stakeholders to deliver practical, fit‑for‑purpose data solutions aligned to business strategy
• Incorporate product ownership and project management towards Geosciences’ centralised drilling database evolving requirements

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.