Supervisor Underground Mechanical Fixed Plant
Closes: Jul 21, 2025
Date: 20 Jun 2025
Job Posting End Date: 20-Jul-2025;14:29:59GMT
Job Country: Australia
Job State/Province: South Australia
Job Location/Region: Roxby Downs
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
Location: Olympic Dam - Our Operations
One of Australia's largest mines and a complex minerals processing operation, Olympic Dam, is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping and cultural facilities.
About the Role
Our Underground Mechanical Supervisor - Fixed Plant will be an experienced, dynamic and collaborative leader who has a demonstrated commitment to preventive maintenance processes and the confidence to involve their people in all elements of the job. Well-developed interpersonal skills are necessary to be an effective and supportive leader ensuring success for you and your team.
In this role you will be responsible for leading of a team of up to 30 Fixed Plant Operations and Maintenance Technicians on shutdown days, working towards improving and maintaining the reliability of the Underground Mechanical Fixed Plant
We value diversity in thinking and your career to date will testify to your ability to demonstrate solid critical reasoning skills, quickly grasp technical concepts and apply theories. Energetic and committed, you work well with challenges, bringing attention to detail and an ability to meet multiple deadlines. You relate well with people, communicate confidently and build positive working relationships.
Please note this position is based at Olympic Dam, operating on a 7 days on / 7 off / 7 nights on / 7 days off roster pattern arrangement, with residential, FIFO or DIDO options available.
In this role you will:
- Maintain, demonstrate and promote an overriding commitment to health, safety and a culture that is inclusive for everyone
- Coach, review and develop multi skilled trades personnel to ensure their skills are optimised to their full potential
- Lead, engage and empower our people to increase their capabilities
- Oversee the execution of planned and scheduled maintenance along with breakdown work
- Work closely with the Maintenance Execution Team to identify opportunities for continuous improvement
- Be focused on working collaboratively to achieve results for our customers
- Able to communicate across multiple levels and disciplines.
About You
Our successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Have a genuine commitment to safety
- Foster a positive and productive working relationship and culture between the team members and with other departments
- Ensure HSEC standards, hazard identification and management is applied by departmental personnel
- Previous experience leading high performing maintenance teams
- Holding a Maintenance Trade or Engineering qualification would be highly advantageous. Not essential
- Have a background experience in heavy industry, construction and or mining
- Continue to identify opportunities to improve the performance of safety, people, processes and systems
- Improve performance and availability through quality maintenance practices
- Build cross functional relationships with other areas to support the delivery of maintenance
- Confident in using maintenance management systems including SAP based programs
- Have experience with Contractor Management Systems highly regarded
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Exceptional risk management skills
- Hold a valid driver’s license, with the ability to drive a manual vehicle
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: Sunday 13th July at 2025 - Midnight SA Time
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.
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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].
