Manager Engineering - Copper SA

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 are seeking a forward thinking and talented individual to take on the key role of Manager Engineering working across all sites in Copper South Australia. This is an exciting opportunity for a high performing professional to run a large team with a broad range of disciplines and work with a range of stakeholders including site managers, General Managers, project teams, engineering EPCMs, where your contribution will have a significant impact on the business. The role is based in Adelaide and for the right applicant BHP will support relocation from any Australian state. Reporting directly into the General Manager for Engineering, Infrastructure and Services this role is a key member of the EIS Lead Team.

Responsibilities

The role will provide leadership to a highly skilled and diverse engineering team, including governance over electrical, mechanical, structural engineering, tailings dams, process safety, information management and the integrated safety management system. The team also includes a Project Management Office that govern and assure the capital portfolio including project framing, tracking, reporting and assurance project close out. The Manager will be the key driver for improved engineering team performance and effectiveness for Copper SA, delivering on accountabilities with a commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility, risk and sustainable development.

Key Accountabilities

• Management and assurance of the Copper SA Engineering team including strategy, management plans, standards, processes and systems to ensure optimum risk management and governance for the asset.
• Leads performance management of a group of superintendents across various traditional disciplines and additional disciplines in tailings, fire systems, information systems and Integrated Management Systems.
• Manages Resource Availability Of Engineering Personnel To Provide
  • Support, guidance and advice to operational sites for each engineering discipline.
  • Engineering management systems including blueprint records, standards, document controls and change management.
  • Oversee and support external audits of sites & engineering activities.
  • Support to growth projects and small project groups.
  • Respectfully and professionally, influence stakeholders to drive optimised outcomes.
• Leads on health, safety, environmental responsibility and risk management across all engineering disciplines.
• Collaborates with operational and project teams to ensure engineering is executed in accordance with identified methodologies, strategies and systems.
• Ensures creation of an environment in which internal lessons learned and external best practices are part of the processes and manages continuous improvement.
• Passion for guiding, developing and influencing teams and individual team members through mentoring and coaching.

About You

• Engineering Management experience within an EPCM or operations.
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering or a trade qualification with relevant experience in Project Management.
• Senior leadership experience and managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of safe operations and safe behaviour fundamentals and the ability to meet multiple deadlines.
• Proactive, credible and influential, you relate well with people, communicating confidently and building strong working relationships with key stakeholders.

How To Apply

Please apply before 8 November 2025.

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 applicant 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.

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.

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. We provide a workplace in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognize that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity and many more aspects of your identity.

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