Principal Applied Geology | Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Denver, Toronto or Santiago

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 The Role

The Principal Applied Geology will provide technical expertise and leadership for the advancement of geoscience knowledge across the value chain. The role will apply integrated geoscience knowledge and expertise to advise BHP Assets, Operations and Functions on evaluation maturity, projects, acquisitions and divestments, resource assessment, and extraction/rehabilitation activities. The role will support the Manager Resource Knowledge in the capture of opportunity and management of risk for resources across the value chain.

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expert geoscientific knowledge and collaboration for evaluation maturity, projects, acquisitions and divestments, resource assessment, mine geology and extraction/rehabilitation activities within the assets, functions and regions.
• Techo-commercial support of existing and future commodities across BHP’s portfolio.
• Support integration of geoscientific advancements into business as usual systems, processes and practices.
• Build trusted relationships with and between BHP Operations, Planning and Technical groups and Functions.
• Influence, lead and manage value chain research to address knowledge deficiencies identified collaboratively with asset or functional peers within BHP.
• Promoting BHP as leaders in integrated geosciences to the external technical community, including universities, research institutions and professional organisations.

About You

• Demonstrated 15 years of geoscience throughout the resource value chain, from resource delineation through to closure.
• Proficient in enabling portfolio management, mergers and acquisitions and divestment decisions underpinned by geoscience knowledge.
• Has a proven track record in both leading and working with dynamic, fast-paced techno-commercial teams.
• Demonstrated deep technical expertise in geoscience across the value chain and its application to business decisions.
• Evidence of technical thought leadership in influencing research directions.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new commodities, regions and concepts through breadth of applied science-based work experience.

Required Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Geoscience
• Recommended Postgraduate degree (MSc/PhD) in geoscience or resource engineering
• Bilingual in English and Spanish

Benefits

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.

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. If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

Safeguarding Our Workforce

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.