Engineer GT&S Electrical

BHP; Mackay Regional; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

BHP in Australia is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join the Hay Point Coal Terminal's engineering team. The role focuses on preserving asset integrity, managing design life cycle, and driving safety-led improvements across electrical systems.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, contribute to capital and operating budgets, and provide technical leadership on brownfield projects, instrumentation, PLCs, and HV/LV drives while ensuring operability and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree; CPEng or RPEQ status is advantageous.
• Experience in coal or heavy industry preferred.
• Exposure to HV/LV drives, instrumentation, PLC hardware.
• Brownfield installs and in-service repair experience valued.
• Strong safety leadership and design input for projects.

Responsibilities

• Govern asset integrity through improvement initiatives.
• Participate in reviews and audits with discipline engineers.
• Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team to solve problems.
• Deliver improvement initiatives aligning with business priorities.
• Generate and review designs, technical assessments, and reports.
• Maintain relationships with departments, suppliers and contractors.
• Support project delivery by site Engineering team or major projects.
• Contribute to five-year capital and operating budgets.
• Ensure safety, constructability, operability and maintainability.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Safety leadership

Communication skills

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

Engineering degree

CPEng or RPEQ advantage

Tools

HV/LV drives

PLC hardware

Process instrumentation

Job description

About BHP

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential.

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

This full-time, residential role based at Hay Point Coal Terminal supports the integrity of the operation’s engineering standards, drawings, systems and procedures, ensuring accurate documentation, effective change control, and specialist electrical engineering support. In this role, you will:

• Govern and control the asset integrity of the operation through identification and implementation of improvement initiatives
• Participate in reviews and audits and collaborate with discipline engineers across BMA
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to solve complex problems
• Develop and contribute to the delivery of improvement initiatives which support business priorities for continuous improvement
• Generate and review designs, technical assessments and reports to communicate requirements
• Establish and maintain close working relationships with relevant departments, suppliers, consultants and contractors
• Support the integrated delivery of projects by the site Engineering team, asset projects or major projects group as required
• Contribute to the development of the site's five year capital and operational budgets
• Ensure Safety, Constructability, Operability and Maintainability is preserved throughout the design lifecycle process

About You

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering with CPEng or RPEQ status advantageous
• Solid understanding of Electrical Engineering principles and previous exposure in Coal, mining or heavy industry
• Exposure to a variety of areas including HV/LV drives & distribution, Process Control Instrumentation, PLC hardware & configuration, Hazardous areas and heavy industrial troubleshooting and maintenance
• Experience with brownfield equipment installations and In-service repair scope development
• Demonstrated experience in providing technical input to design and project execution, with an overarching drive for safety leadership
• Well-developed communication and engagement skills with an interest in providing technical leadership, stewardship, support and solutions
• Attention to detail and finely tuned problem solving skills