Principal Maritime Safety and Sustainability

**Date**:12 Sep 2024**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Singapore**Job State/Province**:Singapore**Job Location/Region**:Marina Bay**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**
- The purpose of the Maritime sub-function is to bring people and resources together through an optimized maritime supply chain that is world class, measured by the safest coverage at the lowest cost. This role provides maritime technical expertise, ensures that optimal maritime solutions are delivered to the business, and all maritime operations are conducted in accordance with organizational and industry requirements and BHP’s reputation is protected. Specifically, this role is accountable for protecting the integrity of the BHP supply chain by ensuring that every vessel meets or exceeds BHP’s vessel vetting criteria and regulations.- Accountabilities include:

- Perform the role of shore team advisory and act as vessel/shore interface.
- Perform vessel vetting for a portfolio of BHP operated ports and act as the business interface between a third-party vetting provider, RightShip, business stakeholders, Charterers and external parties, such as Vessel Owners, Technical Managers and Port Agents.
- Lead incident investigations and run root cause analysis workshops to mitigate any gaps in process and/or performance.
- Engage with Vessel Owners to lift performance through standard routines, performance conversations and improvement plans.
- Represent BHP at industry forums, influencing key players to lift safety standards in line with BHPs expectations.
- Lead safety forums and standard routines with Asset/Port stakeholders fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement on all matters related to Maritime safety.
- Lead process improvement projects that enhance BHP’s controls framework to reduce incidents and any business impact.
- Lead port agency sourcing strategy and contract management
- Build understanding of key supply chain risks and support annual Maritime risk reviews
- Support decarbonization projects and the pathway to delivering on BHP’s net zero ambitions.

**About You**- Ability to provide maritime technical advice and support in respect of port, terminal and vessel/shore compatibility information.
- Strong project management skills, with demonstrable prior experience in leading change management projects and delivering improvement initiatives for customers
- Confidence in managing and communicating with stakeholders in a matrixed organisation and building relationships with industry bodies. Influencing to share best practice, latest regulations and standards and passion to uplift safety in the maritime sector
- Knowledge of cargo quantity and quality survey techniques, and share expertise, if any, in handling of dangerous goods.
- Commercial chartering knowledge with an ability to drive decision making with commercial teams that balances safety, sustainability and cost an advantage
- Experience with commercial contracting strategies and risk management an advantage.
- Application close on **Sunday, 29 Sept 2024**.

**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.

**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 emp