Graduate Mining Engineer

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Date: 24 Jan 2025

Job Posting End Date: 15-Feb-2025; 05:59:59 GMT

Job Country: Canada

Job State/Province: Saskatchewan

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!

About Potash

BHP’s CAD$14 billion (US$10.5 billion) investment in the Jansen project, located approximately 140 kilometers east of Saskatoon, is expected to become one of the largest potash mines in the world. As the largest investment in Saskatchewan’s history, Jansen is expected to generate approximately 5,500 workforce opportunities during construction and 900 long-term roles. Jansen's construction will take place over several years with first production planned for late 2026. Once fully ramped up, Jansen is expected to have an initial production capacity of approximately 8.5 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa), with the potential to produce 16 to 17 Mtpa in future stages.

About the Graduate Program

The 24-month graduate program focuses on Developing, Engaging, Managing Change and Achieving Results. It’s a balanced approach to technical and professional development to ensure you have well-rounded capabilities. This will be the cornerstone of your BHP Career. Graduates will rotate into different teams 2-4 times, to help build technical capabilities, working relationships with new people and leadership skills. You will be guided by our leaders as you work on real projects, offering accelerated learning and career path opportunities. Near the end of the program, you’ll be provided the choice to stay in the same commodity or seek opportunities elsewhere in BHP.

Purpose

BHP is looking for an enthusiastic Graduate Mining/Geological Engineer to support the team's contribution to leading engineering strategies, standards and frameworks that ensure the engineering process and design is optimized and enables safe, efficient construction, commissioning, and operation. The Graduate Mining Engineer will join a global cohort of like-minded graduates who will be supported, motivated, and mentored to develop the skills required to work on real business problems, and given an opportunity to create a career that will have a lasting impact on themselves and on the world.

About the Role

In this role, you will support the Planning & Technical team by:

• Contributing to the design, optimization, planning, and scheduling of the underground mine to support decision making for mine progression across all time horizons.
• Developing and delivering plans for mine development and production in accordance with strategic project and business objectives.
• Implementing mine design and planning systems to support the functional development of mine planning processes.
• Applying an understanding of discipline specific engineering related terminology, theory, key processes and activities (e.g., mining, geological, geotechnical, ventilation, etc.).
• Employing specific/relevant discipline engineering expertise and leadership to meet BHP's technical expectations.
• Determining the underlying cause of problems and evaluating multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
• Identifying, engaging, and managing a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Using BHP's risk management framework to identify and assess risks to make risk informed decisions.
• Providing in field support for implementing risk controls and building a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Planning, tracking the delivery of and managing a project to generate value and drive the achievement of project outcomes.

Downtown, Saskatoon office. 40 hours per week. Hybrid working (flexible, shared workstations and a combination of office and work from home) is standard for BHP. BHP offers domestic relocation assistance to support the successful incumbent in transitioning, if required.

About You

To be considered, you will need:

• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in mining, geological, or geotechnical engineering (with bachelor's degree completed not earlier than 2022) or be eligible for graduation by May/June 2025.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to build working relationships with various teams across the organization.

You will also be:

• A part of a global graduate program with international learning opportunities that will help shape your own development as an Engineer and provide an exposure to diverse career paths.
• Given the opportunity to learn an operation from the beginning – through construction, operations readiness and into the operations ramp up.
• Enabled and supported to solve complex problems from day one, leveraging the latest digital technologies and backed by experienced multi disciplined teams.

Application Deadline

This posting will be active until 11:59 pm CST on February 14, 2025.