Principal GBS Planning and Scheduling

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
Provides specialist advice and executes tasks in the development and monitoring of plans and schedules, baselines, activity completion, identification of trends and corrective/preventative actions to influence on-time delivery of the project's objectives.

• Manage stakeholder expectation through proactive customer engagement and receiving feedback.
• Effectively communicates with all stakeholders, including internal and external customers.
• Develops summary and detailed schedules for a program or project.
• Develops baseline schedule and monitor/analyse current schedule against established baseline.
• Develops schedule range model for schedule range/risk analysis and participates in ranging workshops, analysis and preparation of schedule range/risk reports.
• Reviews and provides constructive feedback on contractor schedules and reports.
• Provides planning and conceptual sequencing expertise for the development of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and operational readiness activities including assignment of resources.
• Identifies activities or sequences of activities that are material and critical to the project and business unit and effectively communicates these to the appropriate members of the project team.
• Monitors critical path activities on a regular basis and provides update and analysis including possible mitigation efforts that must be undertaken to minimise impacts.
• Develops planned progress curves and analyse monthly progress.
• Validates ongoing implementation of functional planning and scheduling strategies to optimise the schedule in response to changing project conditions.
• Assists in reporting program level dashboards and reports.
• Integrates contractor/other function schedules in to an overall program/project schedule and provide monthly updates against the baseline.
• Uses established scheduling best practices and standard systems and tools in the development and maintenance of baseline and current schedules.
• Prepares weekly and monthly reports and dashboard for the program/project.

About You

• Relevant tertiary qualification in a business/trade-related discipline or demonstrated equivalent business experience
• Advanced Excel Skills
• Strong problem-solving skills including organising and analyzing multiple data sources.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal), collaboration and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work autonomously in a remote capacity. Previous commercial, project management, or quantity surveying experience on capital projects in the mining, resources, or oil and gas industry would be well regarded.
• Uses independent functional voice, technical expertise, and professional acumen to solve complex business challenges.
• Demonstrates leadership when implementing new ways of working and embedding changes within teams or across the function.
• Fosters a culture of integrity and accountability. Helps nurture talent within the team or function by providing technical coaching and guidance to others.
• Project management software experience with applications such as Stature, Aconex, Acumen Fuse, Ecosys

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

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