About The Role

Reporting to the Superintendent Long Term Planning, you’ll join a team responsible for the strategic foundations of our operation, supporting Growth Studies, Life of Asset planning, and Ore Reserves reporting. This is an prospect to influence decisions that will define the future of our assets. Through innovation, technical expertise, and strategic thinking, you’ll develop and optimise mine infrastructure strategies and planning solutions that maximise value and align with business priorities. Working across a range of stakeholders, you’ll play a key role in identifying opportunities, solving complex planning challenges, and helping deliver safe, sustainable, and efficient outcomes for the business. This unique role can influence and inform strategic mine infrastructure solutions across multiple sites in a Growth and Business‑as‑Usual context. You will interface with Planning, Study and Execution teams to generate and deliver value outcomes. Your industry experience will enable you to develop and maintain effective working relationships with a wide stakeholder group with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation.

This role is based in Adelaide with occasional site travel required.

In This Role You Will

- Develop mine infrastructure strategies to support both Business‑as‑Usual and major Growth projects within Copper SA
- Undertake mine infrastructure supply and demand forecasting for Life of Asset planning
- Perform mine infrastructure trade‑off studies and associated business case development
- Undertake haulage and congestion modelling and provide insights and recommendations to the business
- Review and design major fixed mine infrastructure including materials handling systems
- Utilise industry experience to develop continuous improvement initiatives




- Leverage your expertise and industry connections to bring new technologies and ways of working to the business to improve safety and productivity.
- Support the annual Ore Reserve estimation and declaration.
- Provide technical support for significant mine planning projects, studies, and reviews.
- Apply divergent thought to value optimisation for the operations.
- Communicate and collaborate with other Planning and Execution teams.
- Develop scopes of work to engage additional external stakeholders as required to support business needs.
- Project manage packages of work as required to support studies.
- Monitor and maintain progress for all design work, using the relevant team tools.

About You

- Degree qualified in Engineering (mining, civil, or other)
- Experience in the development and assessment of underground mine infrastructure solutions
- Expertise in underground mine infrastructure supply and demand forecasting
- Demonstrated successful communication of complex issues and influencing positive change.
- Adept at leading and influencing diverse groups in a large organisation.
- Sound written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in delivering studies through to operations readiness and execution.
- Proficient in the use of Deswik mining software.

Benefits

At BHP, we offer attractive salary packages with performance‑based bonuses and a best‑in‑class employee share programme. We support work‑life balance with flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

Equal Opportunity

At BHP, we are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are focused on building a workforce that is diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. We recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

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📌 Engineer Mining - Adelaide
🏢 BHP
📍 Adelaide