Date: 24 Aug 2025
Job Posting End Date: 28/08/2025 15:59:59
Job Country:
Australia
Job State/Province: Western Australia
Job Location/Region: Pilbara
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
We are currently seeking applications for Safety Specialists to join our WAIO Rail operations in a permanent position on a FIFO 5:2, 4:3 roster. We have positions based in Mining Area C and Port Headland.
In this role you will support safety outcomes across dynamic and high performing operations. Through proactive engagement and coaching of operational leaders, you will deliver meaningful verification of work practices and standards, driving continuous improvement in safety outcomes, every day.
In this role you will:
- Provide support to Operational teams in delivery of safety improvement initiatives.
- Participate in and facilitate operational investigations and provide process guidance, coaching and quality review;
- Drive continuous improvement in safety performance through ongoing engagement with site leaders, encouraging and coaching quality field verifications and demonstrating expected standards.
- Thorough review of site and industry HS events, encourage a strong culture of learning and embedment of safety improvements.
- Participate in risk assessments and provide quality reviews.
- Deliver safety training programs to the operations i.e. task based risk management, event investigation facilitation
- Support accurate and transparent HS data reporting and elements of the HSE governance program.
About You
You will be a self-motivated professional with a solid record of accomplishment of achieving results through influence, coaching and mentoring. You will work hard, have fun and support the team to achieve our collective goals.
You will also have:
- A passion for safety and a culture of care
- Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence at multiple levels in safety
- At least 3 years Health & Safety experience
- Valid unrestricted driver's licence
- Experience with HS management tools
- Coaching and mentoring skills with a desire to help people with a lens of continuous improvement
- Ability to self-motivate, manage priorities and consume data to effectivity deliver safety support.
- Experience in mining industry will be 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 alcohol 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, 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.