Principal Data Scientist | MECoE | Brisbane, Perth, or Adelaide

Job Description

Principal Data Scientist | MECoE | Brisbane, Perth, or Adelaide 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 focuses 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. About MECoE BHP's Maintenance and Engineering Centre of Excellence (MECoE) brings together a dedicated, innovative team focused on identifying, achieving, and maintaining the highest standards in maintenance for BHP globally. Your diversity of thought and experience will be embraced, and you will be empowered to make a real difference in our business. You will utilise innovative approaches, tools, and technology to add real value to our teams - setting new standards to guide improvement activity, transforming services, and supporting our people. About the Role BHP's Maintenance budgeting solution team is responsible for supporting and driving insights from the global processes and systems that help build the BHP global maintenance budget. Our activities range from: Identifying trends, deriving actionable insights, and influencing the business Formulating strategies and implementing associated improvement projects Supporting operations to improve their data quality Supporting and enhancing our suite of Power BI reports Ultimately, we want to use a data science and customer engagement approach to ensure we are working towards optimizing our multi-billion dollar spend on maintenance each year. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be a key driver in building our strategy. Leveraging your mathematical background, a rich library of datasets, and a global team of stakeholders, you will develop and implement strategies for quantitative analysis of current opportunities and predictions on future spend. Furthermore, the role functions as a key advisor to decision-makers as we develop strategies to mitigate risk and improve outcomes for our customers. The Principal Data Scientist will work collaboratively alongside Asset Management principals and partner with operations and other business subject matter experts to enhance BHP's maintenance productivity. Reporting to the Manager Budgeting Solution, your accountabilities include: Develop a framework and strategy to architect our data in line with other BHP data models. Investigate complex problems using a structured problem-solving approach. Work closely with stakeholders and SMEs to formulate asset management strategies from insights. Present ideas, results, and recommendations to stakeholders at all organisational levels. Write code and conduct analysis utilizing a range of technologies and techniques. Enable performance improvement by producing actionable insights from data. Support data quality through reviewing system error logs and actioning as appropriate. Maintain Power BI reporting suite, including making improvements to support data strategy. About You As a successful candidate, you will have a related tertiary qualification and demonstrated experience in both data science and communicating with influence. You will: Have strong mathematical, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving skills. Be able to take a voice of customer (hypothesis) and interrogate data to clarify and prove/reject. Confidently present complex topics to senior (and non-technical) audiences. Have experience programming in Python and SQL to:Build descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive modelling. Perform structured and unstructured data mining. Apply machine learning and statistical modelling techniques. Be a strong Power BI developer. Be customer-focused and a collaborative team player. Other highly regarded experience includes: Exploring and proposing new ideas that may have benefits for the business. Asset Management experience in mining, manufacturing, or similar heavy industry. Experience working in engineering and/or management consulting. Proficiency in Spanish language. Location and Roster This is a permanent role to be based at our Australia corporate offices in Brisbane, Perth, or Adelaide, working Monday to Friday. Flexible working options are available, with an expectation of at least 3 days per week in the office. Occasional travel may be required. Application closes on Tuesday, 5 Feb 2025 . 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 several 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 provide 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 represents the communities where we work and live, providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly, and with respect. #J-18808-Ljbffr