Senior Dragline & Dozer Operations Leader (Bowen)

About The Role We are building a talent pool of experienced and values-driven Superintendents Draglines & Dozers to support future opportunities across our operations. This is a great opportunity to step into a leadership role, leading high-performing teams and contributing to secure, efficient, and consistent operational outcomes. Reporting to the Production leadership team, you will provide strong operational oversight of dragline and dozer activities. You will champion safety, support strategic and operational planning, drive performance, maintain cost discipline, and enable your team to perform at their best. Your ability to build relationships, apply systems thinking, and lead with discipline will be key to your success. Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop frontline and operational teams to deliver safe and productive mining performance
- Manage, coordinate, and verify operational activities across dragline operations, drill bench preparation, dozer push, and enabling mining tasks
- Maintain strong operational discipline with a focus on risk management and critical controls
- Engage teams in problem-solving, waste reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Drive quality outcomes by setting clear expectations, verifying execution, and addressing issues early
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Partner with planning, engineering, maintenance, and production teams to optimise fleet performance
- Contribute to medium- and long-term planning, including forecasting, improvement initiatives, and equipment strategy
- Support effective cost control through budget management, forecasting, and disciplined resource allocation
- Deliver operational and cost improvement initiatives aligned with business priorities About You
- Significant leadership experience in dragline or dozer operations (or related large scale mining operations).
- A strong commitment to safety and operational discipline.
- A demonstrated ability to build trusting relationships across teams and disciplines.
- A passion for continuous improvement, systems thinking, and structured problem solving. Exposure to LEAN management or Shingo principles will be highly valued.
- An ability to use systems thinking to understand how processes, behaviours, and operational factors interact to influence outcomes.
- Confidence in setting expectations, holding yourself and others accountable, and developing capability within your team. Benefits 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. Equal Opportunity BHP is 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. We provide 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. 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 . #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3qu2m8