Head of Technology Potash

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 looking for a Head of Technology Potash, based in Saskatoon, Canada. The purpose of this role is to provide provides strategic and operational leadership in technology management to ensure business continuity, resilience, and digital evolution. The role ensures that technology solutions align with corporate objectives, comply with global standards, and deliver sustainable value. This role reports to the Vice President Technology, Minerals Americas

Key Accountabilities:

• Safety - meet statutory and organizational health, safety, environment and sustainability requirements 
• Ensures strategic relationships with Asset and Functional Teams building strategic cross-functional business processes to support the effective execution of service delivery
• Ensuring that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are in place and applied
• Maintain stability and performance of critical Min America systems
• Technology health monitoring, incident and event management  delivering effective and timely responses to service requests, resolves incidents/problems
• Accountability for Maintenance strategy and execution
• Continuous improvement to eliminate defects, maximize Mean Time Between Failures and Minimize Mean Time to Restore
• Asset Integrity including Life-cycle management and Blueprint Integrity

About You

The successful candidate will have:

• At least 10 years of senior leadership engaging and managing a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders including third-party vendors.
• Relevant undergraduate qualifications in a technical discipline, preferably Engineering or Technology/IT.
• Strong Safety Leadership culture in the Mining, Resource or Manufacturing Industries.
• Strategy and Governance: Define and execute the technology roadmap aligned with corporate strategy; ensure compliance with standards, policies and architecture frameworks.
• Operational Continuity: Guarantee availability of critical systems; oversee incidents, problems, and changes to minimize business impact.
• Digital Transformation: Drive automation, advanced analytics, and AI; evaluate new technologies to improve productivity and safety.
• Talent Development: Build diverse, high-performing teams; foster a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.
• Escalate critical decisions related to operational and cybersecurity risks
• Define technology priorities and resource allocation
• Demonstrates understanding of BHP Operating System (BOS) including problem solving, performance and financial
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Ability to build and maintain strong strategic relationships with Asset and Functional Teams in order to meet business objectives, manage expectations and ensure value delivery.
• Strong communication skills including advanced English

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. 

 If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal. 

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.  

At BHP, we know that 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. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at .