Job Description
Date: 23 Apr 2026
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country: Australia
Job State/Province: Queensland
Job Location/Region: Brisbane
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 the Role
Future Planning is a multi-year program focused on improving BHP’s approach to mine planning and delivering more predictable outcomes. The program introduces innovative planning methods across the value chain and time horizons.
Enterprise Mining Probabilistics (EMP), one of three workstreams within Future Planning, applies probabilistic planning and project management to manage variability and improve performance. This approach supports predictable delivery and continuous improvement within our mining systems.
In this role your responsibilities will be:
You will support the Future Planning EMP team in planning for, and be primarily responsible for, EMP Deployment activities at different assets within BHP portfolio (primarily focussed on BMA) in alignment with the agreed Definition of Done/ Acceptance Criteria to fulfil commitments described by Future Planning program and quarterly EMP workstream Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
You will be required to provide the advisory and coordination support to asset teams for delivering EMP Deployment activities.
The key phases of the Deployment relevant to this role are:
Readiness: where you are required to understand the current state of asset/ site and any gaps/ opportunities to then create a deployment plan/ schedule that fits the asset / site and is documented in a Statement of Works (SoW).
Deploy: whereby you support the site in the execution of the deployment schedule created in readiness phase.
Transition to Operations: during this phase you will support the embedment of EMP into the site business as usual (BAU) teams, including localization of EMP ways of working.
In this role you will provide the deployment plan and work with the asset and site to customise this, your scope is:
Play a central role for implementing the defined EMP Deployment activities for a specific scope area in alignment with the agreed Statement of Works.
Define deployment specific content/detail as required, whilst making sure it aligns to the EMP blueprint and framework documents.
Participate in EMP team routines using Agile Project Management Framework (APMF) practices, ensuring deliverables meet agreed objectives and criteria.
Provide general team support internally within EMP across other Asset active Deployments, inclusive of continuous improvement efforts towards EMP artefacts, resources, and tools.
Using the PDCA cycle, you will work with the Asset teams to improve execution of mine plans to deliver better C2P outcomes while integrating with asset/ site BOS practices.
About You
Essential:
Background in mine planning for medium and short-term, having experience in the development of budget and ST (monthly, weekly, and daily) mine plans.
On-site experience in working closely with execution and production teams.
Stakeholder management inclusive of successfully influencing change in a challenging and complex environment.
Ability to work effectively in a team, communicate, engage, and influence across diverse groups.
Preferred:
Exposure to Critical Path Project Management and the application of Theory of Constraints in a project environment.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
Experience in statistical and analytical tools.
Familiarity with BMA operations and established relationships within the assets
Duration:
12 months secondment for internal candidates, and
Fixed term (until end of FY27) for external candidates.
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 ******* 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, ****** 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 [email protected].
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country: Australia
Job State/Province: Queensland
Job Location/Region: Brisbane
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 the Role
Future Planning is a multi-year program focused on improving BHP’s approach to mine planning and delivering more predictable outcomes. The program introduces innovative planning methods across the value chain and time horizons.
Enterprise Mining Probabilistics (EMP), one of three workstreams within Future Planning, applies probabilistic planning and project management to manage variability and improve performance. This approach supports predictable delivery and continuous improvement within our mining systems.
In this role your responsibilities will be:
You will support the Future Planning EMP team in planning for, and be primarily responsible for, EMP Deployment activities at different assets within BHP portfolio (primarily focussed on BMA) in alignment with the agreed Definition of Done/ Acceptance Criteria to fulfil commitments described by Future Planning program and quarterly EMP workstream Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
You will be required to provide the advisory and coordination support to asset teams for delivering EMP Deployment activities.
The key phases of the Deployment relevant to this role are:
Readiness: where you are required to understand the current state of asset/ site and any gaps/ opportunities to then create a deployment plan/ schedule that fits the asset / site and is documented in a Statement of Works (SoW).
Deploy: whereby you support the site in the execution of the deployment schedule created in readiness phase.
Transition to Operations: during this phase you will support the embedment of EMP into the site business as usual (BAU) teams, including localization of EMP ways of working.
In this role you will provide the deployment plan and work with the asset and site to customise this, your scope is:
Play a central role for implementing the defined EMP Deployment activities for a specific scope area in alignment with the agreed Statement of Works.
Define deployment specific content/detail as required, whilst making sure it aligns to the EMP blueprint and framework documents.
Participate in EMP team routines using Agile Project Management Framework (APMF) practices, ensuring deliverables meet agreed objectives and criteria.
Provide general team support internally within EMP across other Asset active Deployments, inclusive of continuous improvement efforts towards EMP artefacts, resources, and tools.
Using the PDCA cycle, you will work with the Asset teams to improve execution of mine plans to deliver better C2P outcomes while integrating with asset/ site BOS practices.
About You
Essential:
Background in mine planning for medium and short-term, having experience in the development of budget and ST (monthly, weekly, and daily) mine plans.
On-site experience in working closely with execution and production teams.
Stakeholder management inclusive of successfully influencing change in a challenging and complex environment.
Ability to work effectively in a team, communicate, engage, and influence across diverse groups.
Preferred:
Exposure to Critical Path Project Management and the application of Theory of Constraints in a project environment.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
Experience in statistical and analytical tools.
Familiarity with BMA operations and established relationships within the assets
Duration:
12 months secondment for internal candidates, and
Fixed term (until end of FY27) for external candidates.
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 ******* 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, ****** 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 [email protected].
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