Specialist MSG Asset Health Developer

BHP; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee share program

Flexible working options

Parental leave

Job summary

BHP is seeking a Specialist Asset Health Development professional to craft time-series analytics for asset health diagnosis and prognosis. The role emphasizes Python-first development using AVEVA PI data, Snowflake datasets, and scalable analytics patterns across mining equipment and sites.

You will collaborate with reliability engineers and operations teams to ensure analytics drive maintenance decisions, with an emphasis on interpretable results and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Python for time-series processing and detection methods.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with cloud data platforms.
• Ability to validate analytics with operational stakeholders and tune thresholds.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain time-series Asset Health analytics.
• Develop Python scripts to detect degradation, drift, and anomalies.
• Perform time-series prep and feature engineering (resampling, smoothing, rolling stats).
• Apply statistical/ML techniques with interpretable outputs for maintenance action.
• Document logic, thresholds, and limitations for repeatability.
• Scale analytics patterns across equipment types and sites.
• Support deployment of Asset Health analytics in enterprise apps and workflows.
• Collaborate with reliability engineers and site teams to identify opportunities.

Skills

Python for time-series

Time-series analytics

Automation of analytics

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

Snowflake

AVEVA PI / PI AF

Job description

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

As the Specialist Asset Health Development, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of predictive analytics models for Asset Health diagnosis and prognosis of BHP equipment. This role is Python-first and focused on time-series analytics (e.g., trending, deviations from trend, drift and early warning detection, baseline/expected behaviour bands), using enterprise historian data (e.g., AVEVA PI) and curated datasets in Snowflake to deploy repeatable, scalable analytics patterns across sites and asset classes.

Reporting to the Project Manager Predictive Maintenance, your key responsibilities will include:

• Develop and maintain time-series Asset Health analytics
• Develop Python analytics scripts to identify degradation, drift, abnormal behaviour, and deviations from expected operating trends using equipment time-series and condition monitoring data.
• Perform time-series preparation and analytical feature engineering (e.g., resampling, smoothing/filters, rolling statistics, baseline modelling, rates-of-change, event-windowing)
• Apply statistical and/or machine learning techniques where appropriate, with a preference for interpretable and operationally trusted analytics that translate clearly to maintenance action.
• Produce clear documentation of logic, assumptions, thresholds, and limitations to support operational adoption and repeatability.
• Scale analytics patterns across equipment types and sites
• Support delivery of the Asset Health program of work to scale and deploy analytics patterns to similar equipment types, leveraging consistent failure modes and monitorable symptoms with guidance from reliability engineers.
• Standardise reusable analytics patterns (templates, parameterisation, QA checks) that enable efficient replication across fleets and operating contexts.
• Monitor and optimise deployed analytics to improve alert quality (e.g., false positives, missed detections, lead time, stability across operating regimes).
• Work with PI time-series data and Snowflake data products
• Use enterprise time-series historians (e.g., AVEVA PI / PI AF) to source, contextualise, and validate telemetry and event data for analytics development.
• Develop and maintain curated datasets and SQL logic in Snowflake to support repeatable analytics execution, monitoring, and reporting.
• Implement data quality checks and controls (e.g., missing data handling, sensor validity rules, time alignment, outlier logic) to improve monitoring reliability and reduce noise.
• Embed analytics into enterprise applications and lifecycle practices
• Support development of predictive Asset Health analytics within enterprise applications and workflows (alerting, dashboards, work identification), ensuring usability and operational fit.
• Monitor, evaluate and optimise the effectiveness of deployed analytics over time, including periodic recalibration as operating context changes.
• Work within agile delivery practices and adopt pragmatic lifecycle controls (version control, peer review, testing, documentation) to maintain quality and scalability.
• Support system improvement work and upgrades that increase monitoring quality and efficiency.
• Reliability engineering collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Establish understanding of failure modes, monitorable symptoms and rectifying actions for key mining and fixed plant equipment, partnering with reliability engineers and site teams.
• Collaborate with teams at operations and central groups to identify and develop high value asset health monitoring opportunities and communicate insights in an actionable way.
• Translate technical analytics into decision support that enables maintenance planning and risk-based action.

About You

Core capabilities (Essential)

• A collaborative problem-solving mindset with a passion for tackling complex maintenance challenges using data-driven insights.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Python for time-series processing and analytical detection methods (trend, deviation, early warning logic) and automation of analytics workflows.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with Snowflake (or comparable cloud data platforms) to build performant, reliable analytics datasets.
• Familiarity with enterprise time-series data historians (e.g., AVEVA PI / PI AF) and industrial telemetry challenges (sampling, gaps, bad values, context).
• Ability to validate analytics with operational stakeholders, tune thresholds, and manage performance over time (monitoring, continuous improvement).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate technical insights into actionable business outcomes.

Highly Desirable – Reliability Engineering (Industrial Applications)

• Demonstrated reliability engineering experience in asset‑intensive / industrial environments (e.g., mining, minerals processing, fixed plant, heavy mobile equipment).
• Strong understanding of reliability methods such as Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and ability to link failure modes to monitorable symptoms and recommended actions.
• Experience interpreting and applying condition monitoring information (e.g., oil analysis, vibration analysis, sensor diagnostics) in an operational reliability context.

Desirable (Additional)

• Experience working in agile development environments and applying practical lifecycle discipline for analytics (version control, testing, documentation, release practices).
• Experience with node‑based analytics / model orchestration tools is advantageous.
• Engineering or trade background with proven experience in relevant fields is advantageous.

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 [e-mail].