Portfolio Commissioning Manager

Job title: Portfolio Commissioning Manager

Job description: 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 Potash

In 2021, BHP approved a CA$7.5 billion investment in Jansen Stage 1 in Saskatchewan, Canada, which is aligned with their strategy of growing exposure to future facing commodities in world-class assets. Potash opens a new front for growth and is an expandable resource that can support a century or more of operations. Potash provides BHP with greater diversification by commodity, country, and customer.

Purpose

We are seeking a forward thinking and talented individual to take on the key role of Portfolio Commissioning Manager, for our Potash Jansen program of works. This is an exciting opportunity for a high performing professional to work with a range of senior stakeholders where your contribution will have significant impact on the business.

Based in Saskatoon and reporting from a project basis to the BHP Jansen Program Director you will be responsible for leading a highly skilled and diverse team supporting both Jansen Stage 1 (US$5.7 billion) and Jansen Stage 2 (US$4.9 billion) projects. As a leading contributor and key advisor, you will be part of the Jansen Program Leadership team and responsible for managing the Commissioning Team to safely plan and execute the requirements of the assigned projects. This will include the management of collaboration across Jansen Stage 1 (JS1), Jansen Stage 2 (JS2) and BHP Operational Readiness Teams, participation in project reviews and risk assessments and development of project Commissioning strategies. Regular travel between corporate offices and to site will be required.

In addition, as part of the Global Commissioning & Operational Readiness Function you will identify and influence strategic initiatives to drive productivity and cultural improvements across BHP Projects.

Work Location

Downtown, Saskatoon office. 40 hours per week. Hybrid working (flexible, shared workstations and a combination of office and work from home) is standard for BHP.

About the Role

Other accountabilities will include:

• Ensure an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental, and community responsibility is maintained through Commissioning activities
• Develop, execute, and maintain the Commissioning strategies and project turnover processes across the Potash Program of works
• Manage and further develop the regional Commissioning team across the Potash Program of works
• Collaborate closely with Senior Project and Operational representatives to ensure the successful delivery of the projects safety, on-time and within budget
• Responsible for designing an integrated project plan to successfully execute JS1 and JS2 and successfully transition the Jansen projects to the future BHP Jansen Operations teams
• Manage change effectively and efficiently to strategically enhance the team’s performance
• Keep key stakeholders informed regarding potential forecast change request impacts on project plans, documents, and deliverables and provides technical expertise to senior leaders on the impacts to shareholders
• Delivers reports to stakeholders on phase/project completion to address success/failure of the project, ongoing considerations, and other closure-related factors
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP’s risk management framework, and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes
• Respectfully and professionally, influence stakeholders to drive optimized outcomes including Operational, Maintenance, Engineering and Technology teams
• Work closely with the other project streams including Development, Delivery, Operational Readiness, Project Engineering and Quality to ensure portfolio synergies can be capitalized and lessons learnt leveraged

Working in a proactive business culture with a supportive management structure, and leveraging off your extensive experience, you will have the chance to promote business excellence through your team and you’ll make full use of your broad range of skills in the areas of continuous improvement, technical knowledge, financial acumen, and communication.

About You

You will have 10 + years’ experience with tertiary qualifications in Engineering or a trade qualification with relevant experience in Project Management or site operations. With previous experience in a similar senior role, you will have managed and developed teams and be confident in working within a complex environment.

As an experienced professional with a passion for guiding, developing and influencing teams and individual team members through mentoring and coaching you will bring strong leadership abilities with a demonstrated ability to lead a team that delivers high performance.

We value diversity in experience and your career history will testify to your ability to demonstrate strong critical reasoning skills, proactively identify issues and ultimately develop solutions. Energetic and driven, with a strong understanding of safe operations and safe behaviour fundamentals you work well under pressure and uncertainty bringing a high attention to detail and the consistent ability to meet multiple deadlines.

A performance and achievement orientated professional, your technical strengths will be complemented by excellent engagement and communication skills. Proactive, credible and influential, you relate well with people, communicating confidently and building strong working relationships with key stakeholders.

This is an opportunity to have a real business impact and influence the way decisions are made.

About the 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 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.

BHP offers relocation support and assistance to new employees and their immediate family members, should it be required. More details on the relocation policy could be shared with candidates during the interview and offer stages.

The application due date is November 24, 2023.

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 and is 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.

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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