Date: 8 Aug 2025
Job Posting End Date:
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
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Environmental Professional to join the Environment Team within our WAIO Mines Operations.
Reporting to the Environment Superintendent, you will be responsible for oversight and governance of a range of environmental management outcomes, coaching on effective environmental risk management, and provision of technical expertise to grow environmental capability in operational leaders.
As the successful candidate in this role, you will:
- Help line leaders to understand their environmental risks and obligations, and implement effective controls to manage these risks
- Collaborate and connect with other teams through in-field engagement and verify the effectiveness of Environmental management controls;
- Participate and coach as an Environmental subject matter expert in risk register reviews, risk assessments, and Environment event investigations
- Collect and report environmental monitoring and performance data
- Utilise work management to administrate environmental approval obligations and meet reporting timeframes for event and compliance reporting;
- Identify opportunities to streamline approvals to enable operations, and facilitate the Management of Change (MoC) process for new/amended approvals;
- Supervise contractors involved in the safe and productive execution of Environment monitoring programs managed work.
- Support the development and delivery of improvement initiatives and regulatory approvals
- Apply the BHP Charter Values through your interactions with team members and line partners on a daily basis
About You
- Environmental management experience in mining or similar industry with the ability to work autonomously.
- Be able to demonstrate strong interpersonal and engagement skills and have a history of achieving results through influence, coaching and mentoring.
- Knowledge of Environmental Protection Act Part IV and V frameworks and approval pathways is advantageous.
- Tertiary Qualifications in Environmental Science or a related field
With a strong commitment to continuous environmental improve, you will ideally have experience with:
- Environment management systems
- Geospatial applications such as GIS ArcMap
- Interpreting data and legal obligations and
- Communicating environmental requirements in a simple manner that enables action
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 [email protected].
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