Principal BOS | Caval Ridge | BMA

BHP; Moranbah; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee share program

Flexible working options

Parental leave policy

Job summary

BHP is seeking a Principal Coach for the BOS in Caval Ridge, Queensland, to lead an operating-system improvement program that drives safe, productive performance. The role coaching site leaders and frontline teams to implement data-driven improvements and lasting culture change.

It requires deep mining experience, strong facilitation, and the ability to influence across departments. The role is site-based on a 4/3 roster with focus on capability building and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Operational or professional experience in the mining industry.
• Experience leading change or coaching roles in technical and operational environments.
• Ability to draw information and insight from data to inform problem solving and improvements.
• Facilitation skills to support structured problem-solving sessions with leaders and frontline teams.
• Strong observation, coaching and communication skills across levels.

Responsibilities

• Enable a healthy and performing improvement engine at all levels within the operation, from Frontline to Superintendent (L1-L3).
• Coach site leaders to identify, prioritise, problem solve and implement frontline improvements.
• Drive prioritised site breakthrough initiatives at departmental level (L3).
• Build BOS capability and deliver training to sustain core BOS practices across the site.
• Promote sharing best practices for high-impact operational improvements across teams.
• Develop data-driven business cases for improvement initiatives and measure value.
• Prioritise work to align with safety, productivity and culture goals.
• Model BOS practices and coach teams to grow capability and change.
• Support the BOS Lead to align teams and priorities across departments.

Skills

Leadership

Data-driven

Coaching

Stakeholder influence

Problem solving

Tools

Corvus

Ampla

KaiNexus

Standardised Work

BrightSpot

MyBOS

Job description

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.

About The Role

Caval Ridge is in Queensland's Bowen Basin on the traditional lands of the Barada Barna people.

We have an exciting opportunity within our Operating System Improvement team for a BOS (BHP Operating System) Principal Coach. This role is a critical part of our transformation that will shape BHP's future and build a better BHP with a more empowering culture.

Reporting to the Manager/Lead BHP Operating Systems & Analytics, this position isaccountable for implementation of BHP Operating System (BOS) and delivery of operational business improvement initiatives for the site by effectively influencing and collaborating across departments and workstreams.

This is a site-based opportunity working a 4/3 roster. Flights available from Brisbane and Cairns only.

Key responsibilities:

• Enable a healthy and performing improvement engine at all levels within the operation, whilst focusing coaching activities at Frontline to Superintendent level (L1-L3)
• Coach and Assist site leaders with driving the identification, prioritisation, problem solving and implementation of frontline improvement
• Coach and Assist site leaders with prioritised site breakthrough initiatives at L3 (departmental level)
• Monitoring of BHP Operating System capability within the departments and providing the training and coaching required to maintain and effectively build core BHP Operating System capabilities across the site
• Build the operational site teams' ability to problem solve and continually improve their work, replicating and sharing best practice for high impact operational improvements
• Drives capability and culture around use of the core systems associated with the understanding the health of the ‘improvement engine' at site. Some examples include Corvus, Ampla, Standardised Work, CoreWork, BrightSpot, MyBOS, WAVE and KaiNexus
• Identifies, implements, and evaluates the success and value of continuous improvement activities/initiatives that contribute to improved safety, productivity and culture
• Develops clear business and value cases for improvement initiatives that are data driven and create impact.
• Prioritises work effort and resources in line with site priorities and highest impact for safety, productivity and culture
• Role model and coach what good looks like with the BHP Operating System practices and tools to continually grow capability and ways of working that drive planned business impact
• Supports the BOS Lead to align team to achieve goals and prioritise work across departments

About You

We are looking for someone that possess business knowledge, demonstrate excellence in leadership on a day-to-day basis, effectively influence others, and have a strong ability to build capability in others and lead change.

The successful candidate will be passionate advocate for data-driven insights and process discipline with a bias to action and that is motivated to make an impact.

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

• Prior operational or professional experience in the mining industry
• Experience in leading change or coaching roles in technical and operational environments
• Enthusiasm and energy for delivering sustainable improvements through leading or implementing a process improvement or change management project
• Ability to draw information and insight from data to inform problem solving, improvement projects and clear decision making
• Facilitation skills to support structured problem-solving sessions with leaders and frontline team members
• Excellent observation, coaching, and feedback skills to engage team members at all levels on improved ways of working
• Ability to influence and work with teams to collaboratively problem solve
• Ability to overlay business strategies / priorities and applying systems thinking and analytics to drive decisions and improvements
• An understanding/exposure to continuous improvement methodologies, organisational change and business value drivers, preferably within mining
• You are looking to establish credibility as a trusted advisor through your strong improvement, leadership, coaching and communication skills
• Values diversity in thinking and a curious mindset, this role will leverage your ability get the best from a diverse and inclusive team culture

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.

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.