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 currently seeking a dynamic, strategic and hands-on leader to take on the role of Head of Technology Potash, based in Saskatoon, Canada. Reporting to the Vice President Technology Americas, this is an exciting opportunity to drive strategic direction and operational performance for all technology functions supporting Potash operations. This role shapes the way our business leverages technology across the Potash value chain, ensuring the delivery of safe, reliable, and innovative technology solutions that enable productivity, cost efficiency, and risk reduction.

Key Accountabilities:

Lead & Inspire

• Provide senior leadership to teams managing, coordinating, supporting and delivering technology services, ensuring consistent capability across OT/IT security, mine systems, rail systems, control systems and network.
• Build and maintain diverse, high performing teams, and foster a culture of are, inclusion, feedback and continuous improvement through BOS.

Serve Our Customers

• Represent the Technology function as part of the Potash Asset Leadership Team.
• Set direction, establish priorities and strengthen customer feedback loops to deliver maximum value for the Asset and the Enterprise.
• Define and implement Potash's technology roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Deliver Asset Technology projects on time and within budget.

Champion Risk & Safety Management

• Build a risk-aware culture, assessing threats and opportunities, demonstrating strong safety leadership and leveraging BHP's risk management framework and cybersecurity standards to support safe and productive outcomes.

Drive Service Excellence

• Deliver effective and timely responses to service requests, resolve incidents and problems, and ensure business-critical technology services are reliable and available.
• Ensure problems are solved at the root cause, solutions are appropriately evaluated and implement structured approaches to tackle enterprise-wide challenges.
• Build and deploy reliable, cost-effective and impactful technology solutions, managing operating and capital expenditure to ensure value delivery is maximised.

Engage Stakeholders

• Identify, engage and manage diverse internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared goals, including management of external vendors.
• Balance delivery of Asset, Technology function and Enterprise priorities.

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.
• A passion for safety, customer value and operational excellence.
• Ability to motivate teams, drive change, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive experience in leadership within large-scale industrial or mining operations, ideally including both operational and technology leadership roles.
• Deep technical knowledge and understanding of OT & IT environments, cybersecurity, and digital transformation.
• Experience in technology service support, end-user support, troubleshooting, strategic decision-making and risk management.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills to manage stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Strong financial and business acumen
• 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. 

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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 .