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
We’re seeking a Reliability Specialist – Rolling Stock Maintenance to join our Reliability team, with a strong focus on financial performance, budget development, and cost optimisation across maintenance activities.
Reporting to the Reliability Superintendent, this role is focused on ensuring maintenance outcomes are delivered efficiently, within budget, and with clear financial discipline. You will play a key role in developing maintenance budgets, identifying cost reduction opportunities, and improving cost transparency across rolling stock maintenance.
Partnering with Maintenance, Planning, and Finance teams, you will help ensure that maintenance activities are not only effective but also deliver the best value for the business.
Key Responsibilities
Budget Development & Financial Management
- Develop and maintain rolling stock maintenance budgets
- Support forecasting, accruals, and month‑end financial processes
- Provide clarity on budget performance and cost drivers
- Track actual spend against plan and highlight risks and variances
Cost Optimisation & Value Delivery
- Identify and deliver cost reduction opportunities across maintenance activities
- Challenge maintenance scopes to remove non‑value or unnecessary work
- Collaborate with the broader reliability team to improve cost efficiency without compromising safety or Asset performance
- Support decision‑making by providing clear cost vs value insights
Cost Visibility & Reporting
- Provide clear, consistent reporting on maintenance costs and performance
- Improve transparency of cost drivers across rolling stock activities
- Ensure data accuracy and integrity within SAP and reporting systems
- Translate financial data into simple, practical insights for teams and leaders
Governance & Financial Discipline
- Drive adherence to cost management standards, processes, and controls
- Ensure correct use of work orders, cost centres, and purchase orders
- Support audit readiness and compliance with financial requirements
- Promote accountability for cost across maintenance teams
Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with Maintenance, Planning, and Finance teams
- Support and guide frontline leaders in understanding and managing costs
- Provide input into planning and execution activities where cost is impacted
- Act as a key link between operational teams and financial outcomes
About You
- Experience in cost control, budgeting, or financial management in an operational environment
- Strong financial acumen and ability to understand cost drivers
- Ability to identify and deliver cost improvement opportunities
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail
- Confident communicator able to simplify financial information
- Ability to work closely with operational teams in a dynamic environment
- SAP and maintenance systems experience
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.
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].
