Date: 6 Aug 2025
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country:
Australia
Job State/Province: South Australia
Job Location/Region: Roxby Downs
About BHP
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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 drives culture and culture drives performance. All incidents are preventable and everyone has a role to play.
Come and be a part of this success.
Come and be a part of this success.
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.
Please note this position is based at Olympic Dam, operating on a 7/7 day/night, or days-only roster pattern roster arrangement with residential, FIFO ffrom Adelaide and DIDO options available for country SA.
About the Role
The position of Specialist Maintenance Execution (Refinery) will form part of a multi-functional and diverse team supporting the Surface Maintenance department to safely and efficiently achieve departmental and BHP Olympic Dam business objectives. In this role you will:-
- Have a commitment to look after your own and the teams wellbeing, confidence to mentor safety related issues and speak up to coach and prevent harm
- Be responsible for the execution of activities across shifts and other departments in order to safely add value and improve efficiencies
- Provide technical expertise within the maintenance team whilst facilitating preventative and reactive maintenance activities
- Foster collaborative and productive working relationships across all internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrate an overriding commitment to working in and promoting a healthy, safe, environmentally responsible and sustainable workplace
- Be active in identifying and communicating improvements to procedures, processes or plant and participate in problem solving and troubleshooting of plant issues
- Provide technical knowledge and expertise relevant to the role and support the Management of Change process to all plant modifications executed by the maintenance team
- Scope and execute planned and unplanned mechanical maintenance activities
- Comply to and consistently follow the standards and procedures designed to enable you to work safely and effectively every daPerform and develop BOS routines to implement a safe working environment, plant with your team members to continuously improve our culture
- Work with other departments and customers to develop and execute the weekly and daily defined Production Schedule to ensure we optimise all daily opportunities that arise
- Perform large, planned shutdown outages durations, providing a high level of in field leadership, ensuring our teams and contract partners have the support to safely execute planned tasks to a high safe standard with a high completion rate
- Support the on-shift Supervisor with a willingness to step up into the Supervisor role when required
About You
- Minimum Australian recognised trade level qualifications within a mechanical discipline
- Sound computer skills and ideally have exposure to SAP
- Experience in technical fault finding and continuous improvement activities
- Exposure to hazardous area environment would be preferred
- Understanding of Quality Assurance and current WHS legislation
- Previous shift work experience would be preferred
- Proactive people management skills and leadership abilities
- Production line manufacturing experience is preferable including robotic systems
- Can demonstrate a high level of maintenance optimisation and strategy frequency reviews
- Perform well with a high performing team with limited time to make good smart decisions based on the conditions that arise
- Ability to use and pull resources to make good team and business decisions where needed
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APPLICATIONS CLOSE: FRIDAY 15 August 2025 - Midnight SA Time
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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.
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