Principal CPPM | Brisbane | BMA

BHP; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Employee share plan

Flexible working options

Parental leave

Job summary

BHP is seeking a Principal CPPM to lead open cut and underground coal operation planning at Brisbane. You will champion EMP principles, govern 90-day execution plans, and drive improvements across sites, focusing on risk, constraints, and performance. Strong leadership, systems thinking and mine planning experience are essential.

The role emphasizes coaching teams, embedding continuous learning, and delivering reliable plans with a safety-focused approach within BMA operations.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified Engineer, preferably Mining.
• Extensive experience in open cut coal mining operations.
• Strong leadership and project management capabilities.
• Experience in mine planning and reconciliation systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensures accurate reporting for risk frameworks and planning principles.
• Governance of 90-day execution plans and CPPM routines.
• Verifies discipline in daily/weekly/monthly execution rhythms.
• Coaches and uplifts plan execution across sites.
• Translates insights into TIPs and structured CAP cycle improvements.

Skills

Operational leadership

Critical systems thinking

Mine planning

Problem solving

TUM & VDT

Data analytics

Stakeholder influence

Project leadership

Coaching & mentoring

Execution governance

Education

Degree qualified Engineer, preferably Mining

Tools

BHP Operating System

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.

Come and be a part of this successhere.

About the Role

Enterprise Mining Probabilistics (EMP) Critical Path Project Management (CPPM) is a new and innovative approach to mine planning for stable, predictable business plan delivery. CPPM specifically centres on managing the site critical paths in execution using a project management approach to reduce variability and increase bottleneck performance, delivering stable mining operations for BMA. A key activity for this process is to sustain a closed loop learning cycle, through embedded Plan Do Check Act cycles.

We are seeking an experienced and safety focused Principal CPPM to join our team at BMA. Reporting to the Superintendent Integrated Planning, this role will be located in Brisbane and will be responsible for the following across major open cut and underground coal operations:

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring accurate and consistent reporting for KRI risk framework for Resource Development Priority Group Risk KRI#3 Planning Principles Embedment
• Governance of rolling 90-day execution plans and enabling activities
• Oversight of Critical Path Project Management (CPPM) routines
• Verifying discipline in daily, weekly, and monthly execution rhythms
• Verifying Ensuring risks, constraints, and enabling activities are actively managed
• Monitoring and improving Compliance to Plan (C2P) through support in site PPS
• Verifying integration of execution performance into BOS / operational routines
• Governing and supporting the system health of PASPO
• Coaching and uplift of plan execution across sites
• Separation of:
  • Medium Term Planning issues (probabilistic planning)
  • Execution issues (CPPM) – focus for this role
  • External/systemic constraints
• Translation of insights into targeted improvement actions (TIPs)A consistent and structured reconciliation process (Plan vs Actual)
• Clear understanding of why performance deviates
• Integration of learnings back into:
  • CAP cycle
  • Critical Path Probabilistic Planning (CPPP) assumptions
  • Execution routines

Ensures execution is not reactive—but actively managed using EMP principles and project management disciplines. This role ensures the organisation moves from:

About You

You will bring your critical systems thinking to this role as well as your influencing skills and your genuine passion to promote a culture of diversity and inclusiveness. Your owner’s mindset and focus on embedding continuous learning while maintaining safe operations will be key to your success in this role.

Must be:

• Degree qualified Engineer, preferably Mining
• Extensive experience in open cut coal mining operations

Additional skills/qualifications:

• Demonstrated practical operational leadership experience
• Strong critical and systems thinking skills, with the ability to balance safety, production and cost outcomes
• Experience in mine planning, and demonstrated experience building reconciliation systems in mine planning
• Highly skilled in problem solving (Root Cause Analysis)
• Experience in managing Open Cut Time Usage Models (TUM) and Value Driver Trees (VDT)
• High capability in data analytics, specifically seeking insights and transforming insights into actionable improvement plans, with the ability to influence those action plans at Manager level
• EMP Skills assessment score in line with Tactical / Short term Superintendent (or working towards)
• BHP Operating System experience is highly desirable in particular with leading and facilitating problem solves, and embedding improvement initiatives
• Demonstrated success in leading and managing projects from planning through to completion
• Strong ability to lead, coach, mentor, and transfer skills to operational and project teams

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.

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 *********@bhp.com.