Supervisor Processing | Prominent Hill | 8:6

BHP Group; South Australia; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Generous parental leave policy

Extended leave entitlements

Parent rooms

Job summary

BHP Group is seeking a Processing Supervisor at Prominent Hill, SA, on an 8/6 and 7/7 day/night FIFO roster from Adelaide or Port Augusta. You will lead a production team in the concentrator plant, driving safety, coaching, and reliability improvements while partnering with maintenance and operations to optimise plant performance.

The role requires proven leadership in milling and flotation processing, risk-based decision making and a strong safety mindset to deliver results in a remote mining

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in a processing or production environment.
• Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop frontline staff.
• Strong focus on safety leadership and hazard control.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety culture, coach team and ensure safe operations.
• Coordinate maintenance and minimize unplanned downtime.
• Plan isolations, support plant changeovers and optimise resources.
• Collaborate with maintenance, operations and vendors for reliable performance.

Skills

Safety leadership

People coaching

Team development

Risk management

Tools

SAP

EMS

Job description

Date: 10 Sept 2026

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: South Australia

Job Location/Region: Prominent Hill

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 Superintendent the Processing Supervisor is a proactive and inclusive leader, supporting the supervisor and production team to safely achieve the goals of the broader concentrator plant.

Please note this position is based at Prominent Hill, operating on an 8/6, 7/7 day/night roster pattern arrangement with FIFO (from Adelaide OR Port Augusta).

In this role you will:

• Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible safety leader, engaging, developing and coaching your team.
• Identify, build and develop team capability through ongoing and regular coaching and development.
• Integrate with Maintenance counterparts to ensure effective, pro-actively planned maintenance to minimise unplanned downtime.
• Identify and assess risks using BHP risk management framework, and build a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes
• Plan and implement isolations in accordance with current standards, as required.
• Drive frontline improvement within the Crew using BOS tools.
• Assist in shutdown prioritisation and planning.
• Optimise day to day operations by effectively managing resources and understanding priority activities
• Liaise with on coming / leaving shift personnel to ensure an effective changeover of plant and equipment information
• Ensure events and issues are effectively captured, raised and prioritised in SAP & EMS Notifications

About You

• Demonstrate the confidence to lead by example, hold yourself and others accountable and coach others in ‘Safety Leadership’
• Have an underpinning focus on personal safety and understand the criticality of effective hazard identification and the implementation of effective controls
• Experience in a processing or production environment as a production leader
• Have the ability to communicate well with all stakeholders and develop and grow interdepartmental and vendor relationships
• Experience in milling and floatation components of mineral processing will be essential for this role
• Demonstrated experience providing leadership, mentoring and coaching of teams
• Passionate about fostering an engaged, inclusive and high performing team environment

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 includesgender,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].