Senior Engineer Mine Scheduling - Olympic Dam

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About the Role

Reporting to Superintendent Short-Term Scheduling, this role plays a key part in strengthening the quality, credibility, and execution of mine schedules at Olympic Dam. As the Senior Engineer, you will operate across short‑ to medium‑term planning horizons, ensuring schedules are robust, risk‑aware, and operationally executable within a complex underground hard‑rock environment.

The role combines hands‑on technical scheduling with leadership, coaching, and influence. You will work closely with mine operations, engineering, and leadership teams to improve alignment between plan and execution, identify constraints and critical path risks, and drive more consistent delivery against production and safety objectives. 

This position is based at Olympic Dam, operating on an 8/6 roster, with residential, DIDO or FIFO options available.

In this role you will: 

• Be a safety leader, demonstrating an overriding commitment to positive health, safety and environment outcomes whilst delivering to productivity targets
• Lead the team in scheduling from the 14-day to a 2-month planning horizon
• Coach the team to identify and manage risk to the mine plan through achieving 100% safety, 100% customer value, and 0% waste outcomes
• Provide input through planning processes at tactical time horizons
• Monitor execution of the week 0 schedule to drive compliance and maintain focus on critical path activities
• Conduct problem solving sessions with key stakeholders to determine underlying causes and evaluate solutions to address the root cause effectively

About You

• Mine Engineering degree or other closely related tertiary qualification
• Demonstrated experience in a planning/scheduling role in underground hard rock mining
• Underground practical experience is favourable
• Experience with Deswik suite, SAP with Mining & ERP, and Microsoft Office software highly advantageous

How to Apply

Please apply before 27 May 2026

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. 

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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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