Technician Maintenance Mechanical Fitter - Smelter - Olympic Dam, 7/7 rotating

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BHP is seeking a qualified Mechanical Maintenance Technician to join Olympic Dam’s Smelter team on a 7/7 day night roster, with residential, FIFO from Adelaide or DIDO options. You will perform planned, unplanned and breakdown maintenance within the Smelter, bringing a recognised mechanical trade, a proactive safety mindset and a track record of hydraulic systems fault finding and continuous improvement. The role requires working across shifts, building strong relationships with operations, mentoring safety, and driving maintenance optimization. To strengthen your application, tailor your resume to show technical fault finding, QA awareness, hazardous area experience, SAP familiarity, and team based problem solving. Prepare for police checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, right to work verification; applications close Feb 13 2026.

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.

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Our Operations - Olympic Dam

Join Olympic Dam a safe, reliable, globally competitive business delivered by our people. At Olympic Dam we care that everyone goes home safe to do the things they love. We believe Leadership drives culture and culture drives performance. All incidents are preventable and everyone has a role to play.
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One of Australia's largest mines and a complex minerals processing operation, Olympic Dam, is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping and cultural facilities.

Please note this position is based at Olympic Dam, operating on a 7/7 day/night roster arrangement with residential, FIFO from Adelaide and DIDO options available for country SA.

About the Role 

An opportunity exists for a qualified Mechanical Maintenance Technician to work within our Olympic Dam asset, performing planned, unplanned and breakdown maintenance activities within the Smelter plant of our surface operations.

The position of the Maintenance Execution Smelter will form part of a multi-functional and diverse team supporting the Surface Maintenance department to achieve departmental and BHP Olympic Dam business objectives safely and efficiently. 

In this role you will:

• Comply to and consistently follow the standards and procedures designed to enable you to work safely and effectively every day
• Develop close working relationships with operations personnel to ensure that all plant downtime issues are escalated correctly and remedied promptly
• Provide continual feedback to the maintenance supervisor on job/task progress
• Have a commitment to look after your own and the teams wellbeing, confidence to mentor safety related issues and speak up to coach and prevent harm
• Be responsible for the execution of activities across shifts and other departments in order to safely add value and improve efficiencies 
• Provide technical expertise within the maintenance team whilst facilitating preventative and reactive maintenance activities
• Foster collaborative and productive working relationships across all internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrate an overriding commitment to working in and promoting a healthy, safe, environmentally responsible and sustainable workplace 
• Be active in identifying and communicating improvements to procedures, processes or plant and participate in problem solving and troubleshooting of plant issues as required

About You

• Minimum Australian recognised trade level qualifications within a mechanical discipline
• A proactive Safety mindset and the willingness to improve the way we work as a team
• Has a high drive to develop ones skills to provide additional skill resources to the team
• Previous 1SAP Experience would be beneficial
• Previous experience working with hydraulic systems preferred
• Sound computer skills
• Experience in technical fault finding and continuous improvement activities
• Previous experience and qualifications to working with hazardous area environment
• Previous shift work experience
• Ability to operate across multiple work-fronts ensuring you maintain and clean and tidy workplace
• Understanding of Quality Assurance principles and associated systems and practices
• Can demonstrate a high level of maintenance optimisation and strategy frequency change reviews
• Perform well with a high performing team with limited time to make good smart decisions based on the condition that arise
• Ability to use and pull resources to make good team and business decisions where needed

BENEFITS

BHP Employees are rewarded my many benefits & rewards such as annual bonus, shares program, reward & recognition program, broad range of global corporate discounts, free EAP ffor you and your family and so much more. To hear play  Why choose BHP for your career? - YouTube 

APPLICATIONS CLOSE:  Friday 13th February 2026 at Midnight SA Time,

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 [email protected].