Mechanical Reliability Engineer | Prominent Hill (85352)

About The Role:

Prominent Hill is copper-gold mine, a long-life asset, that is part of the BHP South Australia copper province.  BHP is a global company with operations in Australia, North and South America across 5 different commodities.

You will join our dynamic and results-driven team providing specialist advice, affecting the defect elimination process and undertaking reliability improvement work. Your role will focus on the end-to-end maintenance system, inclusive of parts, procedures, work quality and processes.
 

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Location: Prominent Hill, South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 8 days on; 6 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off
Department: Engineering & Maintenance  
Manager: Senior Reliability Engineer   
Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time  

Applications close: 14 February 2025

In this role you will:

• Ensure the site is complaint with relevant standards and statutory obligations.
• Develop operating/work procedures for people carrying out work as part to the reliability program.
• Participate in audits of site equipment and systems to ensure site asset management practices meet company performance requirements and remain compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Execute defect elimination rhythms and routines, ensuring triggered events are reviewed, investigated, actions are implemented and remediation plans are monitored for effectiveness.
• Foster relationships with key personnel from other  business functions.
• Provide expertise and coaching to other operational teams in analysis of performance indicators and metrics.
• Review execution results from current weekly work schedule to support & ensure compliance of preventive maintenance tasks.
• Analyse condition monitoring data and action accordingly.
• Implement maintenance work plans to validate the integrity of plant, equipment and infrastructure in accordance with defined standards and procedures.
• Analyse life of plant, equipment and infrastructure to determine equipment capability.
• Provide input into the development of the capital and operating budgets.
• Investigate events which meet the Business/Asset-defined risk threshold.
• Develop scopes for site reliability improvement projects, and champion the initiatives.

About You:

• IEAust recognised mechanical engineering degree.
• Safety focussed with sound knowledge of OH&S and mining safety regulation.
• Strong technical and mentoring capabilities.
• Experience in the application of risk management practices.
• Demonstrated experience as an operational site technical expert for mechanical engineering.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Asset Management principles and experience in their application.
• Working knowledge of Asset Management, and risk management standards.
• Experience drafting and updating site technical engineering standards and specifications.
• Experience preparing scopes of work for contracts and consultants.
• Demonstrated experience establishing and maintaining productive relationships and working collaboratively to achieve business objectives.
• A solid knowledge of mining safety regulation and knowledge of key Australian (and other international) standards.
• Experience in the interpretation and analysis of condition monitoring data
• Experience analysing and using data to solve equipment defects
• A solid knowledge of tribology
• Experience in the selection of and application of bearings, couplings, drive belts and other mechanical power transfer technologies
• Capable of providing sound, timely, pragmatic technical advice to site teams, drawing from experience and a variety of information sources and references.
• Assisting in the preparation of budgets for the maintenance of assets.
• Preparation of ad-hoc analysis and periodic asset performance reporting.
• Experience using computerised maintenance management systems (i.e. SAP).

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.

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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 inclusion@bhp.com