Date: 20 Jan 2026
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country:Australia
Job State/Province: South Australia
Job Location/Region: Adelaide
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
* Lead and implement maintenance strategy improvement initiatives that balance risk, performance, and cost over the equipment's life for MECOE governed equipment.
* Provides technical input into Total Equipment Strategy (TES) deployments.
* Engages with the operations, relevant functions, engineering, Repairable & Warranty, Planning & Scheduling and the OEM to optimise maintenance performance.
* Deploy optimised maintenance strategies by following the established processes (such as MOC, plan restarts, act as SME reviewer for materials etc.)
* Participate in equipment criticality assessments
* Act as custodian of maintenance strategies, reviewing Master Data Requests related to governed maintenance
* strategy and preventative maintenance instructions (PMIs), strategy content in Standardised Work.
* Implement and replicate reliability improvements and best maintenance practices on MECoE governed equipment.
* Govern and maintain alignment of maintenance strategy content between APM, SAP, and Standardised Work (SW).
* Proactively monitor maintenance strategy and equipment performance and deviations from performance on a routinely basis.
* Contribute as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to Equipment Failure Investigations, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA) triggered by either MECoE or Operations including ownership of actions related to maintenance strategy changes.
About You
You will have a related tertiary or trade qualification and demonstrated experience in supporting maintenance execution or equipment improvement strategies or iniatives.
You will:
Have strong analytical, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
Work closely with stakeholders and SMEs to formulate asset management strategies from insights
Confidently present ideas, results, and recommendations to stakeholders at all organisational levels
Be a collaborative team player that is results orientated
Other highly regarded experience includes:
Asset Management experience in mining, manufacturing, or similar heavy industry
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.
BHP is 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 .