Date: 7 Aug 2025
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country:
Australia
Job State/Province: South Australia
Job Location/Region: Roxby Downs
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.
Our Operations – Olympic Dam
Join Olympic Dam a safe, reliable, globally competitive business delivered by our people. At Olympic Dam we care that everyone goes home safe to do the things they love. We believe Leadership drive culture and culture drives performance. All incidents are preventable, and everyone has a role to play.
One of Australia’s largest mines and a complex minerals processing operation, Olympic Dam, is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well-equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping and cultural facilities.
Come and be a part of this success.
About the Role
BHP Olympic Dam is currently seeking an experienced and qualified EEHA Inspector to join the Surface Electrical Team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a motivated and respected team within the Olympic Dam Mine, supporting critical operations with a strong focus on compliance, safety, and technical excellence.
Reporting to the Surface Electrical Coordinator will be a key contributor, working with Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians who ultimately deliver E&I maintenance activities ensure compliance with weekly maintenance schedules, operating standards, procedures and defined processes to achieve optimal maintenance outcomes for the Surface operation.
Roster:
This role will ideally work a 5/2 4/3 roster. A hybrid role: The incumbent with both work from our state-of-the-art Adelaide CBD Offices in the GPO Exchange Building, as well as from our Olympic Dam site office, with a regular weekly presence on-site. The structure of this arrangement has flexibility and will collaborate around right applicant.
In this role you will:-
- Verify detailed and visual inspections of electrical equipment in hazardous areas in accordance with AS/NZS 60079 standards and other relevant regulations
- Ensure competency of workers completing EEHA inspections
- Liaise with and assist Risk and Control owners to manage Hazardous Area Risks
- Review completed inspection forms, verify accuracy and ensure reports have been saved to CMMS (SAP)
- Manage HA dossier and Ex register to comply with statutory requirements
- Single point accountability to ensure Ex register is up to date at all times
- Perform Entity calculations for replacement and new equipment installations to ensure compatibility with existing electrical infrastructure
- Support hazardous area classification (HAC) reviews and assist in updating drawings and documentation
- Collaborate within a highly experienced execution team in a high-performing and safety-focused environment
- Liaise with Surface Reliability Team's to ensure EEHA Maintenance strategies are effective and up to date
About You
- South Australian A-Class Electrical licence or degree in Electrical Engineering
- Certificate IV in Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Areas (EEHA).
- EEHA Design and Classification is desirable but not essential.
- Strong knowledge of electrical compliance in hazardous areas.
- Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills and a demonstrated history of influencing outcomes across multiple departments.
- Some experience working with CMMS (SAP).
- Exceptional attention to detail and an ability to process work in a methodical, concise format.
- Highly developed organisational and scheduling skills
- Positive attitude, strong work ethic, flexibility and willingness to see work through to completion
Secure your future with Copper SA and flourish in an exciting time in copper growth and expansion across our state.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: Friday 29th August 2025 at Midnight SA TIME.
BENEFITS
BHP Employees benefit from a highly attractive array of perks, not limited to annual bonus, monetary reward and recognition, shares program, extensive global discount book, flexible work, attractive parental policies, EAP services for the whole family and so much more.... Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W541c1oeLmE
About Our Process
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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.