Specialist Operations

Job description

Date: 3 Oct 2025

Job Posting End Date:

Job Country:Peru

Job State/Province: Lima

Job Location/Region:

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

For our Explorations BHP team in Perú, we are looking for Specialist Gesocience Operations, who will be reporting the to the Superintendent Operations.

The Specialist Operations will be responsible for the safe and efficient planning, supervision and execution of all exploration field activities in alignment with organizational standards and commitments and regulatory requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• The role is accountable for supervising and safely executing all field activities within the defined scope, schedule, and cost objectives.
  
  
• Develops plans and schedules for geoscience operations activities, implements updates and corrective measures for non-compliances and effectively communicates these to impacted stakeholders to enable contracts and activities to be completed within their relevant time horizon.
  
  
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
  
  
• Identifies, engages, and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
  
  
• Supervises the execution of field activities and carries out workplace inspections of safety and efficiency.
  
  
• Verifies compliance to plan, budget, and contract.
  
  
• Assesses the feasibility of data collection sites, supervises the execution of pre- and post-drilling requirements, directs the collection of geoscientific data, and carries out workplace inspections, while ensuring compliance to plan, budget and contract.
  
  
• Plans, tracks the delivery of and manages a project to generate value and drive the achievement of project outcomes.
  
  
• Prioritizes work effort and resources accordingly.
  
  
• Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
  
  
• Creating and sustaining a mature safety culture through engaging, developing, and coaching of contractor partners.
  
  
• Building strong effective working relationships across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, including external business partners.
  
  

About You

• Degree in Geosciences, Engineering, Project Management or equivalent experience in Operations related discipline.
  
  
• Working experience in exploration projects including field supervision in their phases, i.e. earthworks, drilling, geophysics (Preferable 5 years).
  
  
• Strong leadership and communication skills, ability to work with multicultural teams and engage and influence a broad range of stakeholders.
  
  
• Experience in establishing, leading, and supervising remote exploration work sites.
  
  
• Demonstrated strong planning, organizational and problem-solving skills.
  
  
• Adaptability to work in remote locations.
  
  
• Intermediate or higher proficiency in English is required.
  
  
• Knowledge in project management software required, i.e. MS Project, etc.
  
  
• Knowledge in ArcGIS.
  
  

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 .

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