Principal Safety

Date: 17 Apr 2025
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
BHP Operations Services purpose is enabling BHP through exceptional mining services. Operations Services delivers industry leading mining services across BHP operations Australia-wide with specialist capabilities in load and haul, fixed plant maintenance and mobile maintenance. BHP Operations Services has a strong focus on people capability and culture. Our people are our greatest asset and are at the centre of everything that we do. We focus on high performance safety and productivity through our people. With world-class training that is unmatched in the industry and the opportunity to advance your career across locations and commodities, join the team and make your place in BHP.


We currently have an opportunity to join our Health, Safety and Security team as a Principal Safety. Reporting to our HSE Superintendent East, we are currently seeking a Safety Principal, to join the HSS team and support Operations Services. You will be a key member in a team of dedicated safety professionals in this complex, diverse and rewarding setting.

The role is full time permanent position based in Brisbane with regular travel required to support Operations Services. The opportunity requires you to provide leadership, coaching, strategic direction and expert support on BHP safety management systems and processes at Operations Services deployments across Queensland. Flexible working options are available.

You will be required to:

Engage and support the OS Lead team to deliver successful HSE outcomes
Build safety leadership capability through coaching, training and advice to maintain the desired safety culture to keep our people safer and healthier
Support leadership in risk assessments, event investigation, field leadership and compliance with legislative and business requirements
Develop data driven insights for leadership to support risk informed decisions and improvement
Lead functional and operational improvement initiatives to improve safety
Support the Asset implementation of HSS Business Plan.
About You
You will be a motivated and adaptable professional with excellent interpersonal skills. You will have a solid record of accomplishment of achieving results through influence, coaching and mentoring.

To be successful in the role, you will also have:

Tertiary qualifications in Health and Safety, Risk Management or a related field
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to build trusted relationships and influence with leadership
Proven coaching and mentoring skills, with a genuine desire to help people, achieve outcomes and support continuous improvement
Excellent time management and organisational skills to effectively plan work and travel with multiple stakeholders independently
Project Management and change management experience is highly regarded
Previous exposure to the mining and minerals processing industries is preferable; and
Microsoft Office suite competency is highly regarded.
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.

Please note as part of this recruitment process the successful applicant will need to conduct a Queensland legislated coal mine workers’ health assessment.

From 1 April 2023, ResHealth will be mandatory for the completion of coal mine workers’ health assessments, allowing you to submit, monitor and review the progress of your health assessment in a secure online environment. For more information please go to the ResHealth website.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in above 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 inclusion@bhp.com.

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