The challenged ahead:

The purpose of this role is leading a portfolio of work designed to support our current and future project execution activities in Minerals Americas. The candidate will bring a strong background in Commissioning activities, project delivery, and demonstrated leadership in strategic planning and execution of these activities.

In this role, you will:

• Support HSE performance through proactive leadership, apply BHP’s risk management framework and build a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Lead and facilitate the development and maintenance of Commissioning strategy, standards, processes, and plans for major capital project.
• Support the development and execution of a capital optimization program, identifying improvement initiatives to increase capital efficiency and productivity within the commissioning program.
• Provide commissioning expertise and coordinate resources deployed into a study team for the development of commissioning related deliverables, including but not limited to plans, processes, and procedures.
• Act as a single point of contact for the Project or Study manager for all commissioning deliverables and inputs.
• Coordinate the execution of commissioning methodologies, strategies and plans in accordance with program\project systems and standards.
• Support and conduct data-analytics on all aspects of commissioning execution, optimization, and improvement projects.
• Lead value creation through application of continuous improvement techniques to program standards and procedures.
• Monitor the planned, actual, and forecast resource levels to support project execution.
• Coordinate execution of risk and quality management plans to assure effective management of the project’s commissioning scope of work.
• Provide expertise as input to value improvement practices such as integrated planning, in partnership with project functions such as engineering, operations readiness, procurement and project controls and analysis.
• Maintain a wide network of influence, and integrate functions, operations, and regions.

What we expect from you:

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Process).
• Equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered as equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree.
• Bilingual (Spanish-English). Written and spoken, desirable.
• Relevant commissioning experience in mining major projects with special emphasis on Copper Concentrator, Leaching, Tailings and Mining/Material handling related projects or program environment at a Contractor and EP+C/EPCM level.
• Experience at the owner level, in the Mining sector would be advantageous.
• Experience in study and execution-related projects including copper flotation, copper leaching, NPI and copper tailings.
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage, influence and build solid working relationships with stakeholders, peers, vendors, fabricators, engineering, construction and commissioning contractor.
• Job location: Escondida