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.

Come and be a part of this success.

Saraji is one of nine metallurgical coal mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. The Saraji mine is an open pit coal mine located near Dysart in Queensland's Bowen Basin on the traditional lands of the Barada Barna people. It is one of Australia's largest mines, by recoverable coal reserves. Saraji mines the Moranbah Coal Measures, blending from up to 11 coal seams to produce and premium hard coking coal.

About the role

Reporting to the Superintendent Mine Scheduling, as Principal Haulage you will be engaged in haulage planning and design. You will be accountable for strategically planning haulage of the Saraji truck fleet ranging from weekly to budget level horizons and ensuring plans are executable. Using your already solid mine planning skills and experience you will work closely with the wider mine planning team and operations to strive for safe and efficient mine plans that are aligned to business requirements.
This is a great opportunity to showcase your leadership and technical capability in a dynamic and challenging role that will set you up for a range of development opportunities. You will also have access to a supportive, inclusive and results-oriented leadership team.
In this role you will:

• Put safety above all else and strive to remove hazards;
  
• Mentor engineers in best practice;
  
• Deliver haulage plans that meet business needs in a timely fashion;
  
• Communicate model outcomes and your vision/strategy to Production Coordinators and Operations execution teams;
  
• Participate in the investigation of reported events for Production Planning;
  
• Identify and implement Production Planning improvement initiatives;
  
• Build cross-functional relationship with the Operational sub-functions and interact extensively with the Planning sub-functions.

About You

As the successful candidate, you will have a tertiary education background in Mining Engineering with previous experience working at an operations level. Your demonstrated experience working in mine planning teams particularly planning and scheduling for truck and shovel will see you succeed in this role.

As well as your strong communication and interpersonal skills, you will have demonstrated ability to build relationships across departments and able to communicate at all levels. A strong working knowledge of design tools (SPRY/Deswik/Vulcan), Microsoft Office, software packages are desirable.

You will also be a performance and achievement oriented professional, who is motivated by exceeding expectations and providing excellent results.

Supporting a diverse workforce

At BHP Billiton, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people.

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 and other extended leave entitlements.