Specialist Engineer - Mine Scheduling | Peak Downs | BMA

BHP Group; Bowen; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BHP Group is seeking a Specialist CPPM at Peak Downs Mine to lead 24-hour mine planning and Enabling Activities, ensuring schedule integrity and safe operations. You will coordinate with Mine services, Operations, Maintenance and Technical Services to deliver robust designs and accurate schedules, reporting on performance and risks.

The role focuses on ensuring alignment of planning horizons with operational priorities, driving continuous improvement, and maintaining a strong safety culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in mine planning, scheduling, or operational planning.
• Experience with scheduling systems like CiteOps, Spry, Deswik, Vulcan or SAP.
• Strong understanding of the mining value chain and planning-execution link.
• Analytical, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement across teams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining schedule quality.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support a strong safety culture through visible field leadership, hazard identification, completion of BMA Take 5 activities, participation in investigations and compliance with the Site Safety and Health Management System.
• Develop, maintain and optimise the 90-Day Project Activity Schedule, ensuring alignment between mine planning horizons and operational priorities.
• Develop and deliver robust designs for Mine services Enabling activities.
• Coordinate schedule inputs including work scope development, equipment sequencing, task dependencies, durations, and resource allocation requirements of Enabling activities.
• Monitor critical path activities, identify schedule risks and constraints, and support delivery of business targets through effective planning and forecasting.
• Provide schedule reporting, performance analysis and variance management to drive schedule reliability and plan stability.
• Partner with Mine services, Operations, Maintenance and Technical Services teams to ensure successful execution of the schedule and alignment to plan.
• Drive continuous improvement through the application of EMP methodologies, schedule governance processes, and planning improvement initiatives.

Skills

Mine planning

Mine scheduling

Analytical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Critical thinking

Tools

CiteOps

Spry

Deswik

Vulcan

SAP

Job description

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Date: 3 Sept 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.
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Enterprise Mining Probabilistics (EMP) is a new and innovative approach to mine planning for stable, predictable business plan delivery. Its focus is on managing the critical paths in execution using a project management approach to reduce variability and increase bottleneck performance, delivering stable mining operations for BMA.

Reporting to the Critical Path Project Management (CPPM) Superintendent, the Specialist CPPM at Peak Downs Mine will be responsible for:

• Management of the 24 hour mine plan
• Identification, scoping, plan generation and scheduling of Enabling Activities; and
• Monitoring and management of compliance to Critical Path.

This role requires you to develop effective working relationships with the operational and short-term scheduling teams, in order to ensure the efficient execution of the 24 hour plan and Enabling Activity plans and schedules.

This role is offered on an 8/6 day shift only.

Your Responsibilities

• Maintain and support a strong safety culture through visible field leadership, hazard identification, completion of BMA Take 5 activities, participation in investigations and compliance with the Site Safety and Health Management System.
• Develop, maintain and optimise the 90-Day Project Activity Schedule, ensuring alignment between mine planning horizons and operational priorities.
• Develop and deliver robust designs for Mine services Enabling activities.
• Coordinate schedule inputs including work scope development, equipment sequencing, task dependencies, durations, and resource allocation requirements of Enabling activities.
• Monitor critical path activities, identify schedule risks and constraints, and support delivery of business targets through effective planning and forecasting.
• Provide schedule reporting, performance analysis and variance management to drive schedule reliability and plan stability.
• Partner with Mine services, Operations, Maintenance and Technical Services teams to ensure successful execution of the schedule and alignment to plan.
• Drive continuous improvement through the application of EMP methodologies, schedule governance processes, and planning improvement initiatives.

About You

• Demonstrated experience in mine planning, mine scheduling, production engineering or operational planning roles.
• Experience using scheduling and planning systems such as CiteOps, Spry, Deswik, Vulcan, SAP or similar software.
• Strong understanding of the mining value chain and the interaction between planning and operational execution.
• Highly developed analytical, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capability, with the ability to influence across planning, technical and operational teams.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining schedule quality and accuracy.

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.
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