Engineer Mine Production | Operations Services | 12 Month Secondment

BHP Group; Queensland; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Parental leave

Extended leave entitlements

Parent rooms

Job summary

BHP Operations Services in Queensland is seeking an Engineer Mine Production for a 12 month secondment to translate short-term mine plans into safe, achievable operations. You will collaborate with planning, operations and technical teams to ensure practical delivery.

Your background includes a degree in engineering with mine planning or scheduling experience, and proficiency in Spry, Deswik or Vulcan, plus strong Excel and stakeholder engagement skills. The role emphasizes safety and delivery.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified Engineer with experience in mine planning or production engineering.
• Experience with Spry, Deswik, Vulcan or similar mining software.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and champion safety culture through field leadership and investigations.
• Identify and propose solutions to enable SRF development and compliance.
• Monitor schedule risks and support weekly/monthly planning horizons.
• Provide plan compliance reporting and identify drivers of variance.
• Collaborate with Mine Planning, Operations and Technical teams to ensure plan execution.

Skills

Mine planning

Mine scheduling

Excel

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Planning and forecasting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Spry

Deswik

Vulcan

Job description

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Engineer Mine Production | Operations Services | 12 Month Secondment

Date: 18 Aug 2026

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: Queensland

Job Location/Region: Bowen Basin

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 BHP Operations Services

BHP Operations Services delivers industry leading mining services across BHP operations Australia-wide with specialist capabilities in load and haul, fixed plant maintenance and mobile maintenance.

BHP Operations Services has a strong focus on people capability and culture. Our people are our greatest asset and are at the centre of everything that we do. We focus on high performance safety and productivity through our people. With world-class training that is unmatched in the industry and the opportunity to advance your career across locations and commodities, join the team and make your place in BHP.

We are investing in our team to take your skills and career to places you never thought possible.This is an exciting time for BHP. Are you ready to make your place?

About the Role

In this role, you will provide planning support to the Production Superintendents, helping to translate short-term mine plans into safe, achievable, and efficient operational outcomes. Drawing on your mine planning expertise and operational experience, you will play a key role in interrogating weekly and monthly plans, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring plans are practical, executable, and productive.

Key deliverables:

• Maintain and support a strong safety culture through field leadership, hazard identification, participation in investigations and compliance reviews.
• Identifying and recommending solutions around enabling activities to support SRF development and compliance.
• Monitor critical path activities, identify schedule risks and constraints, and support delivery of business targets through effective planning and forecasting in Weekly and Monthly horizons.
• Provide plan compliance reporting, identify variance drivers to improve plan quality, reliability and stability.
• Partner with Mine Planning, Operations and Technical teams to ensure successful execution of the plan, review accuracy of surveyed volume and develop improvement initiatives.

About You

• Degree qualified Engineer with demonstrated experience in mine planning, mine scheduling or production engineering roles
• Experience with mining software packages such as Spry, Deswik, Vulcan or similar and genuine proficiency in Excel
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capability, with the ability to influence across planning, technical and operational teams
• Understanding of the mining value chain, especially between planning and operational execution
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining plan quality and accuracy.

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.

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 [e-mail].