Business Improvement Specialist
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 BHP Operating System
BHP is deploying a global program of work, known as the BHP Operating System (BOS). It is the next step in our continuous improvement journey and a critical part of our transformation that will shape BHP’s future and build a better BHP with a more empowering culture.
The BHP Operating System will fundamentally change how we think and behave at BHP and is founded on three core principles: Serve Our Customer, Pursue Operating Perfection & Empower Our People. It provides the framework to deliver a step-change in our safety and productivity performance, putting our employees at the heart of continuous improvement and will empower every employee to continuously improve the way we work.
About the Role
The main purpose of this role is to drive continuous improvement and sustainably embed new ways of working through BHP Operating System (BOS) and Standardised Work (SW). Provide ongoing coaching and support to Supervisors and Frontline in sustaining BOS principles, practices, and associated tools across the site as the way we work.
Reporting to the BOS Line Coach Superintendent, your responsibilities include:
- Prioritise the application of BOS Principles and Practices to Business Plan priorities
- Assess and recommend focus areas and activities with a focus on unlocking value.
- Role model and coach the BOS practices and tools to continually grow BOS capability and way of working to drive planned business impact.
- Continue to guide and work with relevant stakeholders to build, test and deploy practical solutions to improve work methods (i.e. tooling).
- Facilitate problem-solving sessions with the frontline to identify the root cause of problems, collaboratively problem-solve and explore opportunities to implement SW and BOS tools.
- Coach and support the frontline on Standardised Work and BOS tools and routines implementation through role modelling, knowledge sharing, coaching, and training.
- Analyse, report, and present the progress of and changes to the implementation of SW and other BOS tools to Management and stakeholders.
- Creation of new digital standardised work content, implementation of changes to existing SW content based on improvement feedback, and process confirmations of SW execution.
About You
We are looking for individuals that possess business knowledge, demonstrate excellence in leadership on a day-to-day basis, who are innovative with a bias to action, effectively influence others, and have a strong ability to build capability in others and lead change.
As a successful candidate you will possess the following:
- Demonstrated relevant experience in leading and coaching roles.
- Proven ability to deliver sustainable improvements through leading or implementing a process improvement or change management project, including facilitating problem-solving sessions at the frontline.
- Ability to critically observe, coach, and provide feedback to peers and leadership on improved ways of working.
- Ability to influence and work with teams to collaboratively problem solve.
- Ability to apply systems thinking and analytics to drive decisions and improvements.
Location
In this full-time permanent position, you will be based at Blackwater in the Queensland Bowen Basin region. We have options for FIFO/DIDO or residential, working on a 5D2X roster. FIFO roster is Monday to Thursday on site with Friday working from home.
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.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people, BHP requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in line with BHP’s Covid Policy and any relevant State health directives. If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.
At BHP, 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, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.