About The Role

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.

About The Role

The Senior Project Manager will manage priority EME studies across the BMA mobile equipment portfolio, taking opportunities from early definition through option selection, investment approval and execution readiness.

Reporting to the Lead Mods and Ops, your responsibilities will be;

- Manage EME studies from initial business need through study completion and execution readiness.
- Develop study scope, objectives, deliverables, schedule, cost and governance requirements.
- Coordinate inputs across Engineering, EME, Operations, Maintenance, Technology, Finance, Procurement, OEMs and external service providers.
- Facilitate option development and assessment to identify the most appropriate solution.
- Apply a Minimum Viable Solution (MVS) approach, challenging unnecessary scope, complexity and capital expenditure.
- Develop robust project estimates, schedules, risk assessments and execution strategies.
- Prepare business cases and investment approval documentation.
- Progress studies through relevant governance, assurance and approval processes.
- Manage interfaces, dependencies, assumptions and constraints across the study.
- Engage site stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions are practical, operationally suitable and aligned with business requirements.
- Identify long-lead procurement,



OEM and implementation requirements early.
- Ensure appropriate definition and documentation is completed before transition into execution.
- Provide clear project reporting, recommendations and escalation of key decisions, risks and issues.
- Support effective handover from study into project execution.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Extensive project management experience in mining, heavy mobile equipment, engineering or a similar asset-intensive environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing engineering studies and project development.
- Strong capability across scope, cost, schedule, risk, commercial and project governance.
- Experience preparing business cases and investment approval submissions.
- Strong commercial and value optimisation mindset.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing capability.
- Ability to challenge assumptions and translate complex technical issues into clear business decisions.
- Strong focus on safety, value, simplicity and execution readiness.

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.

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 significant, 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].

📌 Senior Project Manager I EME Study Team I Brisbane I BMA
🏢 BHP
📍 Brisbane