About this role
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
This role will be based in our Brisbane office and supported by the latest technology to engage with our sites around Australia and the globe.
Reporting to the Lead System Dynamics, your focus areas include:
• Identify capability, performance improvement, and value engineering opportunities across BHP asset value chains over short-, medium-, and long term horizons.
• Engage with operations and stakeholders to identify, define, and structure business problems, including context, success measures, constraints, and potential challenges.
• Define modelling purpose and scope, selecting the appropriate modelling approach, level of detail, and data requirements to ensure System Dynamics models are fit for purpose and accurately represent real systems.
• Build, validate, document, and review System Dynamics models in AnyLogic to simulate supply chains, including mine operations, trucking and rail networks, processing plants, and product loading and dispatch.
• Collaborate with site SMEs, data analysts, and data scientists to interrogate and analyse large datasets, extract insights, identify operational and performance issues, and prepare data inputs for dynamic models.
• Define simulation cases, execute scenarios, analyse results, and create visualisations to communicate insights, findings, and recommendations that inform decision making.
• Set modelling requirements and jointly solve complex value chain problems through collaborative design and problem structuring.
• Develop and use fit for purpose models to test solutions and recommend practical, implementable actions.
• Provide technical support to projects and the team through application of your dynamic simulation expertise.
About You
Essential requirements:
- Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or analytics-related discipline, together with a passion for problem solving and using data and dynamic simulation to identify, evaluate and support value engineering and performance improvement initiatives:
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3+ years of experience defining and programming discrete-event simulations in AnyLogic
Other attributes you may have would include some or all of the following:
- Practical experience in mining, minerals processing and resource industries, or equivalent heavy industries, which could include experience in operations or consulting in these areas;
- Experience in value engineering and performance improvement ideation and hypothesis development, including exploring and proposing new ideas that may have benefits for the operation and business;
- Strong critical thinking and creative problem solving skills to generate value through simulation, while maintaining a practical and strategic focus;
- Capability in project scoping and executing work using a disciplined approach to attain project goals;
- Strong presentation and communication skills, and ability to influence stakeholders with different areas of expertise and experience
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 [email protected].
Other facts
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What you'll do
- The role involves identifying performance improvement opportunities and engaging with stakeholders to define business problems. Additionally, the specialist will build and validate System Dynamics models to simulate supply chains and provide insights for decision-making.
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