Manager Procurement - Site Engineering Projects | Procurement | BMA & NSW Energy Coal | Brisbane
BHP Group
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BHP in Brisbane is seeking a Manager Procurement Site Engineering Projects to lead a team delivering contract strategies, tendering, and contract management for the BMA and NSW Energy Coal Sustaining Capital Projects portfolio. Brisbane-based with relocation support if needed.
The role focuses on translating strategy into operational plans, managing stakeholder relationships, and delivering value while upholding safety and compliance standards. Relocation assistance is available.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience in commercial and contract management roles in capital projects.
- Track record of excellence in contract negotiation and people leadership.
- Tertiary qualifications in Management, Economics, QS or Construction Law.
- Strong business acumen with deep understanding of project execution and risks.
- Experience in strategic thinking, planning and risk management.
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to tailor interactions to a wide variety of stakeholder groups.
- Experience managing a project portfolio of spend and interfaces.
- Negotiations and deal design skills.
- Claims prevention and management experience.
- Experience managing and supervising a team of professionals.
- Ability to operate in complex and ambiguous environments.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, direction, and mentoring to the team.
- Manage multiple stakeholder relationships across Procurement and Asset Engineering teams.
- Enable world class contract formation and management performance.
- Apply an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance efficiency and value.
- Evaluate risk profiles and contracting options to inform strategies.
- Manage contract execution and analysis to maximise performance.
- Develop safe project delivery and contractor performance strategies.
- Gain support for and negotiate outcomes that are mutually beneficial.
- Identify and assess risks and foster a risk-aware culture.
- Mitigate risks across the value chain aligned with sustainability commitments.
- Make evidence-based and strategic decisions aligned with long-term objectives.
- Strive for 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
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Date: 26 Oct 2026
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Job Country: Australia
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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.
We are recruiting for the role of Manager Procurement Site Engineering Projects to support the BMA and NSW Energy Coal Sustaining Capital Projects portfolio. The location for this role is Brisbane, and relocation support will be provided to the successful candidate if required.
The Manager Procurement Site Engineering Projects will lead a team focused on the development of contract strategies, tendering and award of contracts, planning, administration and management of contracts, negotiation and settlement of claims, and close out of contracts. You will translate strategy into operational plans for the department.
In this role you will:
- Provide leadership, direction, functional expertise, mentoring, coaching and guidance to the team
- Manage multiple stakeholder relationships across Procurement, Asset Engineering teams, and our contracting partners and suppliers
- Enable world class contract formation and management performance
- Apply an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance efficiency, drive optimisation, and maximise value
- Evaluate risk profiles, project drivers, and contracting options to inform the development of contracting strategies aligned with project execution strategies
- Manage contract execution and analysis to maximise operational and financial performance, and mitigate exposure and risk
- Develop safe project delivery and contractor performance strategies to maximise portfolio value and enhance improvement and innovation
- Gain support for and negotiate outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals
- Identify and assess risks, make risk-informed decisions, and build a risk-aware culture using BHP's risk management framework
- Mitigate people, community, human rights, environmental and climate risks across the value chain, in alignment with our sustainability commitments
- Make evidence-based and strategic decisions in alignment with longer-term business objectives
- Strive to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste
- Extensive experience in commercial and contract management roles in capital projects
- A track record of excellence in contract negotiation and people leadership
- Tertiary qualifications in Management, Economics, Quantity Surveying, Legal (Construction Law) or related discipline
- Strong business acumen with deep understanding of project execution, risks and strategies
- Experience in strategic thinking, robust planning and risk management
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to tailor interactions to a wide variety of stakeholder groups
- Experience managing a project portfolio of spend and interfaces
- Negotiations and deal design skills
- Claims prevention and management experience
- Experience managing and supervising a team of professionals
- Ability to operate in complex and ambiguous environments
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.
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 includesgender,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.
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