Superintendent Operations

**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

**Purpose**:
This role is accountable for execution of brownfield/greenfield exploration activity in an approved focus areas with either country, regional or single project accountabilities. The function is responsible for field execution of technical work programs designed to simply and effectively test for giant resource potential. This person is accountable for designing, planning and safely executing exploration programs matched to Technical Decision Trees; and designing, planning and executing government, community and stakeholder engagements.

This position is responsible for maintaining, developing and ensuring that project exploration and operating capacity and capability are aligned to technical field exploration requirements.

**About the Role**:
Main Functions:

- Provides input and advice on identification, evaluation, prioritisation and selection of discovery opportunities for pursuit within area of accountability.
- Maintains current knowledge on third party exploration results, regional exploration activity and trends.
- Provides input to Screening Notices and Investment Approval Requests for work programs.
- Provides input to the Exploration Project Plan, incorporating the development and approval of the project Technical Decision Tree for approval by the VP Exploration.
- Accountable for field-testing of drill targets, including definition of exploration work required to identify and prepare targets for drilling.
- Accountable for target definition activities on discovery opportunities are effectively planned, executed and progressed to build and maintain a portfolio of drill-ready exploration targets.
- Executes geoscience program requirements for delineation ensuring they are delivered appropriately against plan and budget.
- Accountable for managing regional relationships with related Superintendent Operations to ensure planning and delivery of all exploration activities against schedule and budget.
- Verifies that Exploration projects and offices have demonstrated capacity to effectively plan for, manage and recover from crises and emergencies.
- Executes plans for the management of advanced exploration project handover to relevant business, including transition of mineral title; exploration activities; data, commercial, financial and legal handover; and staff transition (if required).

**About You**:

- Geology degree or similar.
- Experience in exploration/mining.
- Experience in leading teams.
- Multi-geographical experience.
- Bilingual in English and French is highly desirable.
- Management of multidisciplinary teams for the development of complex new systems, processes and instrumentation.

**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.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce***:
The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.

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 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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran