Principal BOS | Caval Ridge | BMA

BHP Group; Queensland; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Generous parental leave policy

Extended leave entitlements

Parent rooms

Job summary

BHP is seeking a BOS Principal Coach to lead the rollout and ongoing improvement of the BHP Operating System at Caval Ridge, Bowen Basin, Queensland. The role focuses on coaching frontline to L3 leaders, driving breakthrough initiatives, and building capability across departments.

The ideal candidate has mining experience, data-driven problem-solving skills, strong facilitation, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams to deliver safety, productivity and cultural improvements.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated mining or heavy industry experience with leading change.
• Proven ability to coach leaders and frontline teams in structured problem solving.
• Strong data literacy and ability to translate data into actions.
• Excellent facilitation, communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Enable an improvement engine at all levels from frontline to superintendent.
• Coach site leaders on prioritisation, problem solving and implementation of improvements.
• Lead site breakthrough initiatives at departmental level.
• Maintain BOS capability through training and coaching activities.
• Foster sharing of best practices and cross-department collaboration.
• Drive use of core BOS tools to assess health of the improvement engine.
• Develop business cases for improvement initiatives with clear impact.
• Prioritise work aligned with safety, productivity and culture goals.
• Model the BOS practices and grow site capability and ways of working.
• Support BOS Lead to align teams and prioritise work across departments.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Change management

Data-driven

Problem solving

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Corvus

Ampla

Standardised Work

Core Work

BrightSpot

MyBOS

WAVE

KaiNexus

Job description

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Date: 7 Oct 2026

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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.

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 theManager/LeadBHP 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,StandardisedWork,CoreWork,BrightSpot,MyBOS, WAVE andKaiNexus.
• 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 willpossessthe 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, organisationalchangeand business value drivers, preferably within mining
• You are looking toestablishcredibility as a trusted advisor through your strong improvement, leadership,coachingand communication skills
• Values diversity in thinking and a curious mindset, this role willleverageyour 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

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.

• flexible working options
• a generous paid parental leave policy
• other extended leave entitlements
• 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]