Specialist Condition Monitoring | Iron Ore | FIFO or RESI | 5/2 4/3 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.
BHP Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) operates and maintains approximately 1384km of track, including over 425 turnouts. The rail asset is critical to the WAIO operation, serving as the sole means of transporting iron ore from mine to port via trains in excess of 2.5km long, comprising 264 ore cars. Managing the condition of the track asset is fundamental to BHP's WAIO operation. Key to ensuring the network can operate is a solid condition monitoring framework, which is captured by our Track Recording Vehicle, a fleet of instrumented ore cars, a team of expert inspectors, and various other teams gathering niche information.
About the Role
Reporting to the Rail Network Maintenance Track Condition Monitoring Lead, this role is crucial to ensuring that the condition of the rail track asset is adequately understood, managed, and controlled, enabling the implementation of maintenance and renewal strategies.
You will have the following responsibilities:
Ensure conformance with the BHP Charter, the BHP Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct, and relevant statutory obligations. Oversee the processing and validation of data captured from BHP's track recording vehicle. Desktop and occasional field verification of track condition faults. Analysis of network condition using all available data sources to build a considered understanding of asset condition and communicate accordingly to inspection and execution groups. Monitoring specific areas of interest across the network, analysing and reporting on work effectiveness and enabling sustainable improvement of maintenance practices. Identification and analysis of data quality issues and contribute to their rectification. Undertake track fault trend analysis, enabling the instigation of reliability engineering activities for sustainable rectification. Lead the development and refinement of Condition Monitoring analysis tools. Lead a variety of continuous improvement initiatives. Build, refine, and sustain Condition Monitoring routines and processes aligned to our key value drivers. Identify potential risks to the asset and the business. About You
You will have highly developed critical thinking skills, with a natural curiosity to challenge the status quo and an unquenchable thirst for continuous improvement. You will be highly personable with attuned collaborative working skills, developing deep and effective working relationships.
You will have:
Tertiary/Bachelor degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering. Experience and exposure to utilising Track Quality data for the purposes of condition-based decision making. Experience in rail Track Engineering. Experience in Track Renewals, Maintenance or Inspection would be preferable. Experience in Track Reliability engineering will be highly regarded. Understanding of reliability and asset management principles will be beneficial. Experience developing, documenting, implementing and refining new processes. Experience with work management tools would be advantageous, with proficiency in 1SAP being highly regarded. Ability to influence, engage with & communicate effectively across multiple levels, business units, functional areas and external stakeholders. A high commitment to safety, quality, attention to detail and procedures. 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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