Date: 29 Jul 2026
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Australia
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Job State/Province: Western Australia
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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.
We are seeking a Specialist Trainer Assessor Electrical in the Rail Academy, focusing on the Rolling Stock Maintenance customer portfolio to work on a permanent full time basis. This position will be offered to work on a FIFO basis in a 5D2X 4D3X or 8D6X rosters. If you are an existing BHP employee with housing in Port Hedland a 5D2X roster will also be an option.
This opportunity is suited to a technically experienced and mature individual who operates with a high level of autonomy, demonstrates strong personal accountability, and is comfortable managing their day-to-day workload with minimal supervision.
Reporting to the Rail Maintenance Training Supervisor in the Rail Academy, the successful candidate will play a key role in supporting capability development across Locomotive and Ore Car Maintenance activities. The role requires a balance of technical competence, professional judgement, and proactive engagement with leaders, operators, and other stakeholders.
Key accountabilities
- Ensure conformance with the BHP Charter, Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations
- An overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development
- Complying with rail safety working requirements
- Demonstrated maturity, professionalism and sound judgement in all training and assessment activities
- Work autonomously to plan, coordinate and deliver training outcomes
- Apply a strong customer service focus when engaging with operators, leaders and stakeholders
- Effectively prioritize competing demands to meet operational and customer needs
- Participate enthusiastically in core routines and BOS principles
- Participate in driving a continuous improvement culture within the training team
- Delivery and facilitation of Training Packages
- Creating, reviewing and updating Training Packages
- Verifying and assessing the competency of operators in field
- Administering training related documentation and systems
Skills and Experience
- WA Electrical License and standard WAIO Electrical Competencies - Essential
- Certificate IV Training & Assessing (TAE40122 or TAE40116) or Assessors Skill Set (TAESS00019) – Highly Desirable
- Approved Infield Assessor, with prior coaching completed with the Rail Maintenance Training Team and Supervisor - Highly Desirable
- Locomotive Electrical Skillsets - Highly Desirable
- HRWL (Dogging, EWP, Forklift)
- WA C class driver’s license
- Excellent communication skills, with the demonstrated ability to work with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to Create & Review Training related documentation
- Confidence in navigating internal processes and procedures (Standardised work, Tempo etc)
- Coordination & planning of training related activities
- Experience with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
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 [email protected].
