Specialist Fixed Plant and Processing | MinAu East Procurement

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About Minerals Australia East Fixed Plant and Processing team

An opportunity exists for an experienced procurement professionals to join the Minerals Australia East Processing team, supporting the BMA and NEC assets across Fixed Plant & Processing value chain.

Reporting to the Manager Mining Services and Processing, this customer-facing team is embedded with our BMA and NSWEC (NEC) Asset customers and represents the Assets within the broader Procurement function, ensuring alignment, accountability and delivery of outcomes that matter to our execution and asset leadership teams.

The team is responsible for procurement across Fixed Plant and Processing activities and includes managing the performance and safety of a wide range of specialised labour providers, equipment and consumables manufacturers, and OEMs.

About the roles

As a Specialist, you will be integral to supporting our operational teams to:

• Build and deliver practical commercial strategies that help our customers meet their priorities.
• Conduct tendering, negotiation and implementation of strategic contracts to obtain favourable commercial outcomes.
• Build and leverages supplier relationships to identify cost optimisation opportunities.
• Identify optimisation opportunities and reduce waste in how we buy and manage contracts.
• Build positive, collaborative and robust relationships with customer teams in the Asset, which are outcomes driven.
• Works closely with Contract Owners to support contractor performance.
• Deliver sustainable commercial outcomes that support safe and reliable processing operations.

Core Responsibilities

• Contract management support across the contract life cycle for scopes across BMA and NEC.
• Support tendering, negotiation and implementation of contracts, working closely with Contract Owners and site stakeholders
• Supplier relationship management focused on improving performance, safety, and value delivery.
• Stakeholder engagement with asset processing teams, maintenance, HSE, engineering and site leadership to deliver outcomes that are safe, efficient and effective.
• “Voice of the customer” focus: identify improvement opportunities while delivering in line with governance requirements and agreed milestones.

About You

Strong commercial acumen

• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• End‑to‑end procurement experience, including sourcing, evaluation, award, and contract management
• Demonstrated proficiency in procurement, tendering processes and tools.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and lead change.
• Proven ability to conduct analysis and interpret results to identify key opportunities.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and the ability to challenge pre-established conceptions.
• Strong understanding of business improvement principles and practice
• Experience in contract management.
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders across multiple regions (BMA and NEC).
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Commerce, Supply Chain, or similar preferred

Position Location

Brisbane

About Our Process

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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.

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