Specialist Project Readiness

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

As a Specialist Operational Readiness, you will play a critical role in preparing the asset for safe, reliable, and sustainable operations. You will support the end‑to‑end transition of projects into the operational environment by developing readiness plans, leading operational change management, managing risk, integrating deliverables, and ensuring compliance with BHP’s standards, commitments, and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities Aligned to Core Accountabilities

• Develop operational readiness and operational change management plans, schedules, and deliverables to ensure the asset is fully prepared for operations. This includes assessing systems and procedures for compliance with BHP standards and defining training, change impact actions, handover, and acceptance requirements.
• Lead operational change management activities, including change impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, communication, training, and adoption of strategies to ensure new processes, systems, or behaviours are embedded prior to go‑live.
• Integrate project deliverables across multiple workstreams, collaborating closely with stakeholders to ensure seamless transition through project phases  into steady‑state operations.
• Identify and assess risks using BHP’s risk management framework, making risk‑informed decisions that enhance safety, productivity, operational outcomes, and change adoption while fostering a strong risk‑aware culture.
• Plan, track, and manage operational readiness and change management tasks to generate value, ensuring that readiness and change activities support the achievement of defined project objectives.
• Apply a strong understanding of BHP’s operating model, business context, and value chain to improve decision-making, optimise productivity, and enhance operational and change management performance.
• Engage and leverage capabilities across the organisation, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams—including Operations, Projects, HSE, Technology, and HR—to drive readiness and change outcomes.
• Champion BHP’s commitment to 100% safety, 100% customer value, and 0% waste, embedding these principles into all readiness and change management activities and decisions.
• Maintain a strong customer and end‑user focus, developing solutions, readiness plans, and change strategies that meet operational needs and enable efficient, reliable performance from day one.

About You

• Experience in operational readiness, operational change management, project management, or technology deployment within complex industrial or mining environments.
• Strong ability to lead change, coordinate across disciplines, and influence stakeholders to support readiness and adoption outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical and organisational change details into clear, actionable information.
• Demonstrated capability in planning, scheduling, and managing readiness and change deliverables for low to medium complexity projects.
• Understanding of risk management frameworks and the ability to apply them to operational, safety, behavioural, and sustainability contexts.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Relevant project management or change management certification (e.g., PMBOK, PROSCI) is desirable but not essential.

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.