Superintendent Maintenance Execution | Nickel West | Kwinana

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 Nickel West
Nickel West is a fully integrated mine-to-market business. Our culture is rich with technical know-how, highly efficient and focused on innovation. The business employs over 2500 people from five operations across Western Australia comprising of nickel underground and open-cut mines, concentrators, a smelter and a refinery. We also have plans to expand our operations with new mines in the northern Goldfields and a large nickel sulphate plant in Kwinana to capitalise on growing demand in the battery materials sector. As the world’s largest producer of nickel briquettes and nickel powder, Nickel West is leading the new-energy revolution in Western Australia.
Nickel West has an exciting future ahead. We invite you to join us at Nickel West as we seek to energize our future.
About The Role
Reporting to the Manager Maintenance Kwinana, you will provide leadership, guidance and technical support to the Utilities Maintenance team supporting the Nickel West, Kwinana Refinery. Your focus will be ensuring the improvement of maintenance performance through the quality execution of maintenance activities.
This role will be based at our Kwinana site and offers exceptional lifestyle opportunities.
In This Role You Will Also

• Ensuring all teams follow our safety systems and procedures and coach and mentor all teams through appropriate field leadership.
• Be first and foremost focused on creating a culture of care by being a visible safety leader, engaging, developing and coaching your team.
• Ensures the monitoring and controlling process drives improvement in performance metrics.
• Provide inputs into plans, budgets, and targets for the projects and ensure delivery against them.
• Demonstrate a commitment to safety by actively engaging in the BHP Field Leadership program.
• Promote and coach operational discipline and high performance in work execution and enhance the technical knowledge of team members.
• Support your team in identifying and scoping of corrective maintenance work.
• Drive a mindset of pride in workmanship in the team in order to eliminate repeat failures.
• Deliver BOS principles with all teams and driving improvement in all areas.
• Effectively engage with other departments and external parties to ensure that pathways are provided for success.
• Implement Continuous Improvement activities that support long term improvement of plant reliability.

About You
To be impactful in this role, you are an experienced maintenance and leader with the skills and desire to drive improvements. You will have a proven collaborative style with a key focus on strong team performance, stakeholder engagement and reliable delivery of value to the operation.
In addition, we are ideally looking for the following skills and experience:

• Solution-focused with the ability to work well under pressure.
• A continuous improvement mindset.
• Deep foundational leadership which supports team growth and development.
• Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal.
• A proven track record in safety management.
• Demonstrated success building cohesive and effective teams.
• Proven track record of working with external and functional teams.
• Experience working in major hazard facilities will be advantageous.
• Significant experience in leadership roles of large teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Tertiary qualified (Engineering) or relevant maintenance experience in process plants.

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.
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.