Manager Processing - Carrapateena
BHP
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About the Role
This is an exceptional opportunity to join the senior leadership team at BHP Carrapateena as the Manager Processing where you will provide foundational leadership and oversight of the Processing facilities
Included in your remit will be:
- Process plant and tailings dam day to day operations, though the Production Superintendent and operations team.
- Metallurgical performance of the plant, with the direct reporting of the Metallurgy Superintendent and metallurgy team.
- Tailings facility technical oversight, management and development with direct report being the senior tailings engineer (RTFE).
You will draw upon your extensive and broad skills gained in various strategic leadership and operational roles within the mining industry. This role will also continue to build upon the existing culture of safety excellence and optimal operational delivery within BHP Copper SA.
This role is based at Carrapateena on a FIFO 5/2, 4/2 roster.
You will also be responsible for:
- Delivery of physicals, OPEX / CAPEX and budgets and inputs for the LOM development.
- Metal accounting and reconciliation of the Processing facility feeding into broader site reconciliation processes.
- Fostering a culture of technical and operational continuous improvement including the integration of new technologies to maximise value generated at the Carrapateena asset.
- Compliance with all regulatory requirements associated with the operation and development of the Carrapateena TSF.
- Core member of the site senior leadership team, delivering effective aligned leadership to the Carrapateena asset.
- Critical risk management, including the safety of all persons operating in and around the Processing facilities at Carrapateena.
- Safe delivery of relines and mill liner management in the scope of the maintenance shutdowns.
- Working with stakeholders to ensure key business outcomes are met or exceeded, including product specifications and inputs.
About You
Exceptional technical expertise complimented by a diverse operational mining background will certainly be advantageous. Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills will also be critical in ensuring you build effective collaborative relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders across the business.
In addition, you will possess the following:
- Tertiary qualifications in Chemical Engineering, Metallurgy or related discipline.
- Base metal flotation plant operations, with size and scale similar to the Carrapateena.
- Experience with the setup and start-up of new processing plants in a green field environment and brownfields expansions.
- Operational Readiness Planning experience and the development of processes and procedures to enable safe and efficient operations.
- Works independently, apply initiatives and develop solutions and recommendations.
- Highly developed problem solving and planning skills.
- Effective leadership skills – to support a culture of improvement, measurement and self-development.
- Experience in the management and operation of tails dams.
How to Apply
Please apply before 20 July 2025.
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