Principal Project Manager | Australia

BHP; Australia; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; 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 Principal Project Manager in Australia to lead strategic P&E initiatives from initiation through delivery and benefits realisation. You will establish plans, govern milestones, and drive cross-functional collaboration across HR, technology, finance and governance to ensure on-time, within-scope delivery.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder influence, and coaching capabilities to strengthen delivery discipline across global teams.

Qualifications

• PM certification (PMP/PRINCE2/AIPM) preferred.
• Proven experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Strong governance, risk, dependency management and reporting.
• Ability to influence and coach delivery teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end project management for strategic P&E initiatives.
• Establishes integrated project plans, milestones, and resource needs.
• Drives governance, stage gates, decision management and escalation.
• Identifies and manages risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Coordinates cross-functional delivery across P&E, HR, Technology, Finance and governance.
• Monitors delivery health and reporting to provide visibility of progress.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Delivery governance

Risk management

Project planning

Reporting skills

Cross-functional collab

Coaching teams

MS Office

Education

Tertiary qualification in project management or related

Tools

MS Project

Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Principal Project Manager | Australia

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 the Role

Reporting to the Manager Experience Delivery, this role provides project management leadership for P&E initiatives, ensuring robust planning, governance, risk management, delivery coordination and reporting. The role drives disciplined project execution, manages dependencies and sequencing, and supports the achievement of strategic outcomes and benefits realisation.

Accountabilities

• Leads end-to-end project management for strategic P&E initiatives, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, timelines, budgets, dependencies and outcomes.
• Establishes and maintains integrated project plans, critical milestones, resource requirements and delivery schedules.
• Drives delivery governance, including project controls, stage gates, decision management and escalation processes.
• Identifies, assesses and manages project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, ensuring timely mitigation and resolution.
• Coordinates cross-functional delivery across P&E teams, GBS HR, Technology, Finance, Governance and business stakeholders.
• Monitors project performance, delivery health and achievement of key milestones, proactively addressing delivery risks and constraints.
• Produces high-quality portfolio and project reporting, providing clear visibility of progress, risks, dependencies, decisions and delivery outcomes.
• Ensures projects align with P&E strategy, operating model principles, governance requirements and business objectives.
• Supports benefits realisation by establishing outcome measures, tracking benefits and facilitating post-implementation reviews.
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of project management methodologies, standards, tools, templates and delivery practices across P&E.
• Maintains oversight of inter-project dependencies and delivery sequencing to optimise resource utilisation and portfolio outcomes.
• Provides project management expertise, coaching and guidance to initiative leads and delivery teams to strengthen execution discipline and capability.

About You

• Tertiary qualification in project management, business, commerce, human resources or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
• Project management certification (such as PMP, PRINCE2 or AIPM) preferred
• Proven experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder projects or programs from initiation through to delivery and benefits realisation, ideally in a large, global organisation
• Strong working knowledge of project governance, stage gates, risk and issue management, dependency and resource planning, and delivery reporting
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders, and to coach and guide delivery teams
• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, concise updates and decisions
• Proficiency in project planning and reporting tools, including the Microsoft Office suite (Project, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Experience delivering HR, people or operating model change initiatives is preferred but not essential

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.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

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.

• 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].