Engineer Rail Signals | Iron Ore | Port Hedland | Residential OR FIFO

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About Us

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.

Position

Reporting to the Signals Lead in the Rail Engineering GTS team, you will be responsible for providing solutions, expert guidance and technical support in the Railroad department specialising in the field of Rail Signals. You will also govern Rail Signals standards and technology for Rail across a broad range of areas in addition to ensuring all adds, moves and changes are managed through the change and configuration management process and are commissioned without unplanned safety and business impacts.

Additional responsibilities will include:

• Support and guide firmware upgrades and software updates for all rail signalling elements and equipment
• Ensure engineering solutions identified to address reliability issues and reduce system faults
• Ensure project-engineering designs meet the design standards and are the right solution for the business
• Provide technical input on rail signalling maintenance strategies and system lifecycle strategies for rail signalling
• Support and adhere to 1SAP Work Management Process
• Provide technical input into planned growth, technology and optimisation projects to ensure business capability is met
• Provide technical input into Mines, Technology, Integrated Operations and Business Planning projects to support business capability improvements while ensuring associated risks are managed for Rail
• Identify the customers’ requirements, review design specifications, budget estimates and support the project team to the highest standard
• Actively recommends and implements improvement, risk reduction and cost saving initiatives
• Ensuring compliance to governance documents through scheduled auditing to ensure systems are controlled and managed to reduce safety and business risks

Skills and Experience

As the successful candidate, you will possess the following:

• Tertiary qualification in Electrical, Communications, or Signaling Engineering
• Demonstrated technical and professional skills within rail signaling including ATP
• Computer literacy with the Microsoft Office suite of applications, especially Excel, PowerPoint, MS project and Word is essential
• Ability to communicate confidently at all levels and establish a good rapport with a diverse range of people, both internal and external, is essential
• The ability to critically review research work, plans, specifications, drawings and provide workable and reliable documentation
• Experience in communications based train control and signalling systems would be advantageous
• C Class driver’s license

Location / Roster

Residential: In this 5:2 residential role you will be based in the coastal town of Port Hedland, Western Australia. Port Hedland is home to our port and rail operations and is the largest regional centre in North West Australia. The 20,000-strong population enjoys well-established education services, entertainment, shopping and medical facilities. As a residential position you will also be provided with subsidised rental accommodation in addition to power and water subsidies.

FIFO: We also have a FIFO position available working a 5:2 4:3 roster with flexible work arrangements considered. The outstanding facilities at the FIFO villages include; a fully equipped gym, TV lounge and games rooms. Additionally you will have access to the state of the art aquatic and sporting facilities in the town of Port Hedland. All rooms at the villages have their own en-suite bathroom, television, refrigerator and air-conditioning.

Supporting a diverse workforce

At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people.

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.

How to apply

Reference Number – 60836

Please note, screening and interviews may take place prior to the advertised close date.

We support flexible work at BHP. Talk to us about the flexible working options in this team.

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