Superintendent Draglines & Dozers | Goonyella Riverside | BMA (Australia)

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We are seeking an experienced and values-driven Superintendent Draglines & Dozers to join our leadership team at the Goonyella Riverside Mine. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high performing team and play a critical role in delivering safe, efficient and consistent operational performance. This role works a 5/2 roster. Flexibility is available on roster and transport for the right candidate.

As the Superintendent Draglines & Dozers, you will provide strong operational leadership across our dragline and dozer fleets. You will champion safety, contribute to strategic planning, deliver operational excellence, maintain cost discipline and support your people to perform at their best. Your ability to build relationships, apply systems thinking and lead with discipline will be central to your success.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and develop a frontline and operational workforce to deliver safe and productive mining performance

Manage, coordinate and verify operational activities in the dragline operation, drill bench preparation, dozer push, and key enabling tasks for mining

Maintain strong operational discipline with a focus on risk management and critical controls

Utilise the BHP Operating System to engage frontline teams in problem solving, waste reduction and improvement projects

Drive quality at every step: set clear standards, verify at each handover, and ensure issues are corrected early

Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Partner with planning, engineering, maintenance, and other production teams to optimise fleet performance

Contribute to medium- and long-term planning, including resource forecasting, improvement roadmaps, and equipment strategy

Manage the operational budget for draglines and dozer fleets, ensuring effective cost control, accurate forecasting, and disciplined allocation of resources to maintain value

Execute cost and production improvement projects as per the site business plan

About You

Leadership experience in dragline or dozer operations (or related large scale mining operations)

Strong commitment to safety and operational discipline

Demonstrated ability to build trusting relationships across teams and disciplines

Passion for continuous improvement, systems thinking, and structured problem solving

Exposure to LEAN management or Shingo principles will be highly valued

An ability to use systems thinking to understand how processes, behaviours, and operational factors interact to influence outcomes

Confidence in setting expectations, holding yourself and others accountable, and developing capability within your team

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 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.

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.

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