Principal Process Engineer

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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 in operations and major projects.  Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where all team members feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

BHP is a leading global resources company. Our Minerals Australia Business includes operations in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia, focusing on iron ore, copper, metallurgical and energy coal and nickel.

Come and join BHP Olympic Dam, a safe, reliable, globally competitive business supported by motivated people. At Olympic Dam, we care that everyone goes home safe to do the things they love. We believe leadership drives culture and culture drives performance. All incidents are preventable and everyone has a role to play in safety and success.

This role is based in Adelaide, offering quality standard of living without the high costs of most other Australian capital cities. Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beach-side lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants and world class wine regions just an hour away. All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar makes Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in. Travel to site is expected as business needs demand.

About the role

The Principal Process Engineer applies technical engineering expertise to projects and to the discipline engineering team, through the development and embedment of process engineering strategies, standards and frameworks that ensure engineering processes and designs are optimised to enable safe, efficient and effective construction, commissioning and operation of facilities and infrastructure, throughout their lifecycle.

Reporting to the Olympic Dam Discipline Engineering Manager, your duties will include but not limited to;

• Supplying technical input as the Subject Matter Expert within project milestones and delivery dates to support projects’ process engineering requirements and to provide early advice to stakeholders about technical risks and impacts to project scope, schedule and budget.
• Supporting the development of project discipline engineering strategy and defines acceptable project engineering and processes.
• Review of engineering deliverables to drive optimisation and development of a solution that meets the project’s design intent.
• Actively identification and driving implementation of improvement initiatives to increase capital efficiency, productivity and safety.
• As a senior member in the engineering team, leads, coaches and mentors team members to ensure delivery against performance targets.
• Identifying the appropriate engineering standards for a project scope to drive lean, fit for purpose and safe design.
• Establishing a relationship with engineering consultants which is based on a professional level of technical challenge to drive lean and fit for purpose design without jeopardizing project progress.  
• Collaboration with Central Engineering to create new technical and discipline engineering standards where required for the delivery of the program scope of work.
• Liaising with operations and other technical groups to ensure business alignment of projects and assist with handover. 

Working in a proactive business culture and with a supportive management structure, you'll have the chance to promote business excellence through your team and you'll make full use of your broad range of skills in the areas of continuous improvement, technical knowledge and communication

About You

• Tertiary qualifications in Metallurgical, Chemical or Mineral Processing Engineering with Post Graduate qualifications in engineering or management highly desirable.
• Member of Engineers Australia and hold CPEng highly desirable.
• Extensive experience in a project design environment within the consulting, utility, mining, mineral processing or heavy industry.
• Significant technical proficiency across process engineering discipline across lifecycle (study, design, installation, commissioning, operation).
• Proven experience in extractive metallurgy with a preference for copper processing plants including design, interpretation of test work results, plant layouts, process design criteria, trade-off studies and process flow diagrams.
• Extensive design and operational experience with copper concentrators, smelters, electro refining and/or hydrometallurgical plants will be viewed favourably.
• Demonstrated leadership of teams to achieve high performing outcomes;
• Demonstrated commercial acumen as well as managing technical risk and governance for successful delivery of projects safely, on time and on budget.
• Become a team member who is regarded for their technical knowledge and supplies cooperative, pro-active and solution-focused project input  
• A performance and achievement orientated professional, your technical strengths will be complemented by excellent relationship management skills enabling you to influence and lead successful change in a challenging and complex environment.

This is an opportunity to have a real business impact and influence the way decisions are made.

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

Please apply online before 22 July 2018

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