Specialist Maritime Commercial

Date: 28 Oct 2025

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Specialist Maritime Commercial - Iron Ore to join the Maritime & Supply Chain Excellence team in Singapore, as part of BHP's Commercial organisation.

BHP's Maritime & Supply Chain Excellence is responsible for overseeing the company's global maritime transportation strategy across our global production and customer network and managing the chartering of ocean freight to fulfil BHP's inbound and outbound shipping requirements. This includes focusing on supply chain optimisation and collaborating within the maritime industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with BHP-chartered vessels.

The majority of Maritime & Supply Chain Excellence staff is located in Singapore.

The candidate is a vessel scheduler in BHP's Maritime Iron Ore team and is responsible for developing and managing the schedules of chartered vessels to ship loading, ensuring efficient and timely cargo loading for customers. The role requires close collaboration with various stakeholders, including Chartering and Operations, Sales, Port and Integrated Production Operation, to align shipping operations with production and sales goals.

The candidate will also be providing support to the commercial delivery of sustainability and productivity objectives for the Maritime Iron Ore team, delivering optimised maritime solutions for BHP's Outbound commodity supply chain.

BHP's Commercial organisation is the engine behind the company's global value chain, connecting its mining operations to customers and markets around the world. It is responsible for maximising commercial value, managing risks and ensuring efficient, sustainable and customer-centric operations across procurement, maritime, marketing and market intelligence.

Key Accountabilities

• Demonstrates commitment to the BHP Charter and Values and adherence to all relevant compliance policies.
• Demonstrates a capability set aligned to a culture of performance. The ideal candidate is a self-starter and can deal with high-pressure situations and ambiguity.

Safety & Sustainability

• Demonstrates and instils an overriding commitment to health, safety and environmental responsibility.
• Adhere to all applicable maritime laws and regulations and the company's marine vetting policy.

Scheduling and Optimisation

The ideal candidate will:

• Prepare and refine vessel schedules, optimise routes and seek improvements in scheduling processes.
• Has ability to identify and solve operational and scheduling bottlenecks related to vessel movements and cargoes and manage competing priorities.
• Have high levels of attention to detail. Ensuring accuracy in schedules, cargo plans, and other critical information is vital.
• Have a strong set of analytical and forecasting skills.

Stakeholder Management

• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders, internally and externally.
• Be seen as a reliable point of contact who understands operational realities and stakeholder needs.
• Develop relationships that encourage open, two-way communications and proactive problem-solving.

About You

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Science, Engineering, Shipping, Supply Chain or Business.
• Experience and Technical Competencies
• At least one year's working experience in commodity, shipping and/or mining industry.
• Industry experience in dry bulk shipping or large industrial supply chains, including port operations and shipping is essential.
• Experience in vessel scheduling or related roles is preferred.

• Experience in the maritime sector, particularly understanding in vessel operations, is highly desirable.

• General skills

• Knowledge of Excel and Microsoft products
• Experience with SAP and Power BI applications
• Experience with computer programming language such as Python or Java

Languages

Fluent English, both verbal and written.

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 .