Date: 18 Aug 2025
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country:
Australia
Job State/Province: South Australia
Job Location/Region: Adelaide
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
As the Superintendent Contractor Management, you will provide strategic and tactical leadership to a team of specialists who assist, co-ordinate and maintain the compliance and performance of contracts whilst seeking operational and commercial efficiencies.
Through your collaboration across all Asset departments, you will provide expertise in contractor management and apply a continuous improvement mindset which ultimately will optimise contractor management for Copper SA.
This is an Adelaide based position operating on a 5/2 roster arrangement with some occasional site travel required.
In this role you will:
- Provide contractor management advisory services for and as a representative of Copper SA
- Provide effective commercial governance and compliance, ensuring all standards and procedures are adhered to through assurance and verification including site visits, audits and contract meetings
- Develop or contribute to contract strategy & management processes
- Lead Quality Circle meetings & forums, ensuring feedback is collated from all end users and actioned as required.
- Actively manage contractor performance & the health of the company's contracting arrangements;
- Support tender processes in an operational context;
- Provide strategic direction related to effective Contract Leadership, including benchmarking internally & externally identifying Continuous Improvement opportunities.
- Demonstrate an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development
- Adhere to and demonstrate BHP Charter Values, operating discipline and a continuous improvement mindset
- Strive to support the elimination of injuries and incidents in the workplace by proactively managing contractor safety initiatives and champion field leadership and associated activities
- Undertake the role of IMS 11.1 Champion and Critical Control Owner for Psychosocial Harm Contractor Management
- Assist with all Audits undertaken relating to contractor management
- Deliver and lead strategic projects and initiatives
About You
- Demonstrated experience with contractor management with previous contract ownership / contract administration experience
- Contractor Management experience
- Excellent communication & presentation skills to a broad range audience, including large groups of personnel to leadership members and/or contract groups
- Analytical problem solver who demonstrates business acumen, with the ability to focus and prioritise critical deliverables to provide timely insights to stakeholders though the use of quality data and data analytics
- Significant stakeholder engagement to foster collaborative working relationships across our teams where you will apply critical thinking to the development while having the ability to communicate effectively across disciplines and organisational levels to create buy-in and influence outcomes
- Performance and achievement oriented who is motivated by exceeding expectations through delivering excellent results
- Demonstrated experience with delivering strategic projects
How to Apply
Please apply before 30 August 2025
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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