Specialist Safety

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:

Reporting to the Manager HSE Business Partnership and based in our iconic Brisbane office, we are currently seeking a Specialist Safety to provide specialised safety advice, support and coaching ensuring all risks with HSE impacts are effectively managed. The role whilst based in Brisbane will be responsible for providing there expertise across BHP Australian operations.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work with line management to provide advice and coaching, ensuring all risks with HSE impacts are effectively managed. In this role you will:
• Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible safety leader, engaging, developing and coaching others.
• Review, adapt and rollout processes for safety management
• Provide support and technical guidance to Operations and Project teams
• Develop and deliver HSE content for upskilling of HSE, Owner’s team and contractor personnel
• Provide expert advice and leadership on all issues relating to Safety
• Facilitate the communication between workgroups to ensure consistency in systems, processes, procedures and goals
• Manage, control, monitor and participate in the execution of work that is the accountability of the HSE Function
• Support line management in building an understanding of, and compliance with, relevant HSE, Our Requirements (GLD), and legal requirements
• Coach line management on the quality and effectiveness of HSE risk assessments, event investigations and field leadership
• Hands on safety support to operations in order to improve safety outcomes
• Identification and implementation of corrective and preventative controls
• Collect and record HSE data

Skills and Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in Health and Safety Management, Risk Management, Engineering or a related field.
• Demonstrate the confidence to lead by example, hold yourself and others accountable and coach others in ‘Safety Leadership’
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence work groups in safety.
• Coaching and mentoring skills with a genuine desire to help people and achieve solid outcomes.
• Professional with distinctive proficiency in the HSE area within a relevant industry experience. Previous exposure to the mining and minerals processing industries is preferable.

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.