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Principal CPPM | Brisbane | BMA

Date: 15 Oct 2026

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: Queensland

Job Location/Region: Brisbane

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 here .

About the Role

Enterprise Mining Probabilistics (EMP) Critical Path Project Management (CPPM) is a current and innovative approach to mine planning for stable, predictable business plan delivery. CPPM specifically centres on managing the site critical paths in execution using a project management approach to reduce variability and increase bottleneck performance, delivering stable mining operations for BMA. A key activity for this process is to sustain a closed loop learning cycle, through embedded Plan Do Check Act cycles.

We are seeking an experienced and safety focused Principal CPPM to join our team at BMA. Reporting to the Superintendent Integrated Planning,



this role will be located in Brisbane and will be responsible for the following across major open cut and underground coal operations:

Key responsibilities:

- Ensuring accurate and consistent reporting for KRI risk framework for Resource Development Priority Group Risk KRI#3 Planning Principles Embedment
- Governance of rolling 90-day execution plans and enabling activities
- Oversight of Critical Path Project Management (CPPM) routines
- Verifying discipline in daily, weekly, and monthly execution rhythms
- Verifying Ensuring risks, constraints, and enabling activities are actively managed
- Monitoring and improving Compliance to Plan (C2P) through support in site PPS
- Verifying integration of execution performance into BOS / operational routines
- Governing and supporting the system health of PASPO
- Coaching and uplift of plan execution across sites
- Separation of:
- Medium Term Planning issues (probabilistic planning)
- Execution issues (CPPM) – focus for this role
- External/systemic constraints

- Translation of insights into targeted improvement actions (TIPs)A consistent and structured reconciliation process (Plan vs Actual)
- Clear understanding of why performance deviates
- Integration of learnings back into:

- CAP cycle
- Critical Path Probabilistic Planning (CPPP) assumptions
- Execution routines





Ensures execution is not reactive—but actively managed using EMP principles and project management disciplines. This role ensures the organisation moves from:

About You

You will bring your critical systems thinking to this role as well as your influencing skills and your genuine passion to promote a culture of diversity and inclusiveness. Your owner’s mindset and focus on embedding continuous learning while maintaining safe operations will be key to your success in this role.

Must be:

- Degree qualified Engineer, preferably Mining
- Extensive experience in open cut coal mining operations

Additional skills/qualifications:

- Demonstrated practical operational leadership experience
- Strong critical and systems thinking skills, with the ability to balance safety, production and cost outcomes
- Experience in mine planning, and demonstrated experience building reconciliation systems in mine planning
- Highly skilled in problem solving (Root Cause Analysis)
- Experience in managing Open Cut Time Usage Models (TUM) and Value Driver Trees (VDT)
- High capability in data analytics, specifically seeking insights and transforming insights into actionable improvement plans, with the ability to influence those action plans at Manager level
- EMP Skills assessment score in line with Tactical / Short term Superintendent (or working towards)
- BHP Operating System experience is highly desirable in particular with leading and facilitating problem solves, and embedding improvement initiatives
- Demonstrated success in leading and managing projects from planning through to completion
- Strong ability to l

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