BHP

BHP Employee Review

No experienced workers left to learn from.

Supervisor, Mining, Training department, Fixed plant and blast crew (Former Employee) - Pilbara sites - 26 July 2021

22 years around and with BHP in various leadership and front line roles. Not a good work place for males of any age. Too many people trying to get out of there current job role so no accountability and no experienced workers left to help with on job coaching. Great place to learn how to get out of work and no leader support for help because they have no experience doing the tasks. Imagine going to school to learn how to rebuild and engine and your teacher is a qualified hairdresser. What you see on the posters, ads and public propaganda is far from what the company does for its people. The pay and stability were the only things BHP had going for it now both are gone. Pay has slowly dropped to not even competitive and stability has gone because leaders discipline workers for speaking up out of frustration for having no direction or competent senior people to get training from.

Pros

It’s a job if you can’t get another one.

Cons

No support, no one to learn from money is terrible for how long your away from home, long work hrs for anyone outside of an office.

Ratings by category

1.0 out of 5 stars for Work/Life Balance

3.0 out of 5 stars for Salary/Benefits

1.0 out of 5 stars for Job Security/Advancement

1.0 out of 5 stars for Management

1.0 out of 5 stars for Culture

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