Senior Engineer Mine Design, Olympic Dam - Adelaide 5/2
BHP
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Job summary
BHP in Adelaide is seeking an experienced Mine Design Engineer to join the Resource Engineering team. You will shape safe, practical plans across 20–40Mt mining blocks, from concept through execution, influencing mine design across IOCG operations.
Role offers Monday–Friday with hybrid working flexibility and relocation support. You will collaborate with planning, execution, and technical teams to optimise stope and development designs and deliver value-driven outcomes.
Qualifications
- Degree-qualified in Mining, Geotechnical, Civil or aligned discipline.
- Broad understanding of mining and operating challenges.
- Underground mine experience, preferably with Sub-level Open Stoping.
- Proficient with mining software and Excel.
- Able to think laterally and visualize in 3D.
- Strong commercial sense and understanding of business drivers.
- Familiarity with project management principles.
Responsibilities
- Formulate mine development and stope planning with planning/execution teams.
- Plan/design to extract value from ore bodies with other teams.
- Monitor and maintain progress for all design work using team tools.
- Deliver Stope Notes for allocated mine areas.
- Deliver horizontal and vertical development designs.
- Collaborate on integrated improvement projects.
- Contribute to maintaining and verifying design/execution processes.
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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.
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.
Join the Resource Engineering team at in Adelaide and take your place at the centre of one of the most complex underground operations in the world.
Supporting Olympic Dam and reporting to the Superintendent Mine Design, you’ll be part of a high-performing, empowered team delivering mine design excellence across a truly unique IOCG system. This is a role where your thinking matters—where you’ll shape how we safely and efficiently extract value from large-scale mining blocks.
You’ll work across the full planning cycle, creating and optimising stope and development designs that drive performance and unlock ore. From concept through to execution, your work will directly influence the delivery of safe, practical plans across 20–40Mt mining blocks.
This is more than design—it’s about solving complex challenges, improving outcomes, and contributing to the next phase of Olympic Dam’s evolution.
If you’re motivated by scale, complexity and the opportunity to make a tangible impact, this is your chance to step into a role that will stretch and accelerate your career.
This role is Monday-Friday and offers hybrid-working flexibility. Enjoy the exceptional lifestyle that Adelaide, South Australia has to offer. BHP can support relocation for this role.
- Communicate and collaborate with other Planning and Execution teams, in the formulation of all mine development and stope planning activities.
- Plan/Design to extract the value from the orebody by working with the other Planning, and Execution teams.
- Monitor and maintain progress for all design work, using the relevant team tools.
- Deliver Stope Notes for allocated mine areas.
- Deliver horizontal and vertical development designs.
- Work with execution and technical teams on integrated improvement projects.
- Contribute to the maintenance and verification of mine design and execution processes.
- Degree Qualified in Mining, Geotechnical, Civil or an aligned discipline
- Broad understanding of the mining and operating challenges.
- Ability to quickly and constructively work within the Olympic Dam operations team, with an ability to work productively and co-operatively.
- Underground mine experience, preferably with experience in Sub-level Open Stoping methods.
- Computer literacy with the latest mining software packages, and highly competent level of Excel.
- Ability to think laterally and visualise in 3D.
- Commercial acumen and demonstrated ability to understand business drivers.
- Understanding of project management principles, such as theory of constraints.
- A strong appreciation for the voice of your customer and pursuing operating perfection.
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 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 inclusion@bhp.com
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