Safety Specialist (HSS) | WA Iron Ore | Newman & East | FIFO | 5:2 / 4:3 / 9:5 or Residential

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

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the WAIO HSS Team supporting the Eastern Hub out of Newman on a 12-month Fixed Term. This role partners with line leadership across a mature, large-scale operating environment, supporting a broad stakeholder group across a vast footprint.

You will play a key role in proactively driving safety performance, uplifting capability and embedding BOS discipline through coaching, technical expertise and forward‑thinking risk management. This role offers strong growth and development opportunities and exposure across a complex and dynamic operational environment.

This is a fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) from Perth on a 5:2 / 4:3 / 9:5 roster or can be offered Residentially in Newman on a 5:2 roster (Dayshift only). 

In this role you will:

• Proactively partner with line leaders to strengthen accountability for Health & Safety risk assessments, event investigation, field leadership and compliance
• Drive disciplined use of BOS routines to improve visibility of risk, performance and learning
• Support accurate, transparent and forward‑looking Health & Safety data reporting to enable better decision-making
• Lead and coach safety improvement initiatives aligned to the Integrated Operations Plan (IOP)
• Uplift quality of risk assessments, event investigation and field leadership through coaching, feedback and visible field engagement
• Deliver safety training programs (e.g. task-based risk management, investigation facilitation) to build frontline capability
• Actively engage with leaders in the field to embed proactive verification of critical controls and expected standards
• Contribute to broader business improvement initiatives and projects
• Support the execution of safety programs and initiatives.
• Facilitate risk assessments and critical control verification activities.
• Provide safety advice and coaching to operational teams.
• Monitor and analyse safety performance trends and identify improvement opportunities.
• Assist with incident investigations and corrective action management.
• Engage and influence stakeholders to achieve positive safety outcomes.
• Support compliance with legislative and company safety requirements.

About You

You are a proactive, motivated and forward‑thinking safety professional who achieves outcomes through influence, coaching and strong engagement with operational leaders. You bring a mindset of continuous improvement, curiosity and challenge, and are passionate about building capability and driving safe, reliable operations.

You will also have:

• A proven passion for safety and a strong culture of care

• Tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in Health and Safety or related field

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence at multiple levels

• Demonstrated coaching and mentoring capability with a focus on uplifting leader capability

• Experience applying BOS principles or structured performance routines to drive discipline and accountability

• Strong analytical capability (Power BI, Excel, Spotfire) to translate data into insights and actions

• Ability to proactively identify risks, anticipate issues and drive continuous improvement

• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage priorities across a fast-paced operational environment

• Strong safety leadership and risk management capability.

• Experience within mining, resources, construction, or heavy industry environments.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

• The ability to influence, coach and support operational teams.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• A commitment to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace culture.

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. 

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal. 

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 inclusion@bhp.com.