Principal Discipline Engineer Electrical/Instrumentation

BHP

Adelaide, SA

Mining—Engineering and Maintenance (Mining, Resources and Energy)

Full-time

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About the Role

Reporting to the Manager of Technical Assurance, the Principal Discipline Engineer will support BHP’s Copper South Australia Major Projects team with electrical and instrumentation technical expertise in leading engineering strategies, standards, and frameworks. This role will ensure the engineering process and design are optimized and enable safe, efficient construction, commissioning, and operation.

This position will be full-time (Monday to Friday) based in Adelaide.

Your responsibilities will include:

Implement Discipline Engineering strategy, plans, processes, and systems for capital projects

Assure the discipline engineering performed by third parties against fit-for-purpose discipline standards that meet operational, risk, quality and regulatory requirements

Collaborate with Project and other Engineering leaders to ensure the provision of appropriately skilled Discipline Engineering resources, with fitt-for-purpos processes and tools  available

Collaborate with Commissioning and Construction, ensuring engineering is developed to support commissioning and construction methodologies, strategies, and systems

Drive adoption of Operation’s discipline engineering standards into the scope and/or collaborates with Operations Engineering to create new discipline engineering standards where required

Integrate and apply internal lessons learned and external best practices across the project with identified opportunities for improvements

Coach and mentors discipline engineering talent and capability

About You

As the successful applicant, you will be able to demonstrate the following:

Relevant experience in Project Management or site operations

Demonstrated extensive experience and technical proficiency in electrical and instrumentation engineering

Ability to engage and influence internal and external stakeholders, consultants and contractors

Good technical and communication skills, including the ability to analyse data and produce concise reports and presentations

Previous experience in major projects

Solutions focused on a proactive approach to problem solving.

Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills including the ability to work collaboratively

Tertiary qualification in Engineering or similar

Applications close 18 August 2025.

About Our Process

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Supporting a Diverse Workforce 

The size, stability, and magnitude of our business not only provide 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 and treated fairly and with respect. We are an equal opportunity employer and recognize that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

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