Principal Ventilation & Services Engineer | Olympic Dam | 5:2

Principal Ventilation & Services Engineer | Olympic Dam | 5:2

Date: 5 Mar 2025

Job Posting End Date: 26-Mar-2025; 13:29:59 GMT

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: South Australia

Job Location/Region: Roxby Downs

About the Role:

Reporting to the Superintendent Planning and Infrastructure, this role is responsible for the strategic and technical mine ventilation and services work in the 2-8 year planning horizon. The Principal Ventilation and Services Engineer will play an instrumental role in supporting technical work of one of the largest and most complex underground mines in the world. The role provides guidance to a wide range of technical and operational stakeholders with a focus on the overall mine ventilation system and environment and the underground mine services network and both their impacts on safety, production, cost and achievement of the mine plan and future growth at Olympic Dam.

This position is based at Adelaide on a 5:2 roster with occasional site travel to Olympic Dam, flexible work arrangements available.

In This Role You Will:

• Ensuring that all legislative, internal, and best practice standards are met with respect to ventilation planning and OH&S.
• Model Infrastructure demand over the 5 year mine plan to understand capital infrastructure project requirements.
• Justify capital spend using the projects framework whilst optimising for capital efficiencies.
• Education and coaching of personnel to improve understanding of ventilation systems, plans, and practices.
• Timely delivery and review of ventilation design for development, production, and project activities; complying with legislative and internal standards.
• Consultation in monthly, stope & mine block, and 5YP/LoA planning processes with attention to safety, schedule, reliability and costs.
• Liaising between stakeholders to support a comprehensive integrated mine plan.
• Develop and deliver opportunities to step-change project delivery.
• Integration of associated planning and schedule software to support operations.
• Contribute / Subject Matter Expert to Ventilation modelling and major projects (eg Circuit performance optimisation, Ventsim model calibration, Ventilation system surveys).
• Quarterly and monthly monitoring and reporting on health & performance of ventilation circuits.
• Build and maintain close working relationship with a wide range of stakeholders across CuSA including Engineering and Projects sub-functions.
• Demonstrate an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development.

About You:

• Mining Engineering degree or similar.
• Professional qualification in Mine Ventilation is highly desirable.
• Significant mining experience and detailed understanding of the underground mining cycle in sub level open stoping.
• Experience in mine or project scheduling is highly desirable.
• Competency in mine ventilation and design software platforms (VentSim, Deswik, MS Office).
• Ability to interpret limited measured / monitoring data, identify potential issues and causes of change, and develop processes to validate assumptions.
• Able to develop preferred and alternate ventilation strategies, identify and escalate potential risks and mitigating actions.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to influence others, communicate complex concepts, and document clearly and concisely.
• Ability to work collaboratively across different work groups and proactively engage with a range of stakeholders including senior levels of management.
• Experience in Mine Ventilation (e.g. ventilation execution, ventilation planning / scheduling, ventilation officer).
• Experience in Lean Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints will be advantageous.
• Olympic Dam experience will be advantageous.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems with minimal direction.

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, 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.