Date: 16 Jun 2026
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country:
Australia
#job-location.job-location-inline { display: inline; }
Job State/Province: Western Australia
Job Location/Region: Pilbara
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.
This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for a transformational operational leader who is energised by performance, disciplined execution, and building stable systems that deliver sustained results.
Reporting to the Manager Mining Production, you will lead the Load and Haul function at South Flank—enabling safe, reliable delivery of iron ore to the WAIO supply chain while managing one of WAIO’s largest autonomous truck fleets.
You will turn strategy into rhythm: aligning people, process, data, and technology to lift performance, strengthen frontline capability, and embed operating discipline across every shift.
Key Responsibilities in this role will include:
- Lead safety and operational performance with pace and discipline, driving step-change outcomes across safety, cost, volume, productivity, and fleet reliability
- Use high-quality productivity insights and disciplined data governance, aligned to the BHP Time Usage Model, to enable sharper decisions and stronger execution
- Solve complex operational problems at the root cause, converting risk and instability into sustainable controls, clear standards, and repeatable routines
- Deliver to supply chain commitments while continuously identifying and implementing improvement opportunities that unlock value
- Embed BOS practices as the management system for performance—creating clarity, cadence, accountability, and focus on value-adding work
- Build leadership depth by coaching Supervisors and technical teams to lift capability, ownership, and performance maturity
- Lead improvement reviews that convert frontline ideas into visible actions, measurable benefits, and sustained operating discipline
- Partner across Operations, HSE, Risk, Planning, Maintenance, and Technology to strengthen standards, remove friction, and improve end-to-end flow
- Make clear, risk-based decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term system stability and control effectiveness
To be successful in this role, you will be a proven operational leader who thrives in complex, high-tempo environments. You will bring the energy to challenge the status quo, the discipline to stabilise the system, and the leadership presence to align teams around safe, reliable, and repeatable performance.
You will ideally bring:
- Demonstrated experience leading large operational teams in a comparable, performance-driven environment
- A degree qualification or equivalent experience in a related discipline, preferred but not essential
- A solutions mindset with the confidence to make decisions, remove barriers, and keep teams focused under pressure.
- A genuine passion and drive to create an inclusive workplace which is free from harassment, discrimination, and victimisation
- A strong operating-system mindset, with the ability to coach, challenge, and provide constructive feedback that lifts team performance
Location
This position is based at South Flank and is offered on a 5/2, 4/3, 9/5, 4/3 roster fly in fly out of Perth.
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].
