BHP Employee Reviews

Excellent company - empowering employees to make choices, good advancement and skill opportunities. Collaboration and team work ethic highly regarded - suited to a can do attitude.

Pros

Excellent life work balance - opportunities to advance and stretch your skillset

Cons

Can be draining sometimes depending on deaslines

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Great place to work

MECHANICAL / MARINE CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR (Former Employee) - Various - 1 November 2019

Was only casual embedded contractor very busy work days good roster and paid flights extremely good rates during the boom. work was not steady, always chasing.

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Not much direction in IT. Too many meetings and strict requirements requiring drug/alcohol testing and being on time and working late.

Storage Engineer (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 30 October 2019

I worked in IT, so based in a city office, but had to go to the mine site occasionally, which is a nightmare. Daily 8AM meetings, which I think were just to make sure you were there by 8AM every day. Lack of co-ordination or direction from management.

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Interesting engineering challenges but high turnover

Execution Project Engineer (Former Employee) - Site & Adelaide - 15 October 2019

Working at Olympic Dam is an experience. Departments can be difficult to work with, however is you are willing to socialise and meet with people it can be a welcoming place to work. Basic understanding of JHA/THA/Permit to work systems are an advantage in most roles on site. Adelaide based roles typically encourage those to be safety conscious and promote the culture of care.

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It depends on the area and people you work for.

Execution Engineer (Former Employee) - Olympic Dam SA - 13 October 2019

Very top end heavy on systems and procedures/safety. Was very stressful with very high expectations just to get things done with little guidance or help. People that have been there for some time have work arounds that get them through rather than following specific systems or procedures. Emphasis seems to be just get if done to cover your tracks rather than deliver something where you consider and treat people well. the good talkers seem to progress well rather than the real doers. I think it depends a lot on the department and the management that you will be under as i did come across areas where people were treated as valuable and were supported well. I think i just had a bad experience in a department that was in turmoil.

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Franna Operator/Rigger/Scaffolder/Shutdown SME (Former Employee) - Western Australia - 30 September 2019

Job was great to be a part of but everyone needs to be accountable for what they do, report incidents immediately, don't lie! especially leadership! Speak up when your colleagues are victimise don't let anyone higher than you dictate what you know is right and they keep you quite by saying your code of conduct will be in jeopardy if you say anything. Company Values should always be in the back of your mind!

Pros

Great life adventure

Cons

Supervision needs to be accountable for what they do and say, Do the right thing

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Not good place to work as a contractor

Supervisor (Former Employee) - Port Hedland WA - 21 September 2019

You get treated like a second class citizen if you are a contractor , not inclusive as they make out to be . Never got trained in anything the whole time i was there.

Pros

Leaving

Cons

Contracting

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Hard yakka

All Rounder, trucks, grader, forklift. (Former Employee) - Goonyella Riverside, Moranbah. - 18 September 2019

If you're single, fit, non smoker, social drinker, fit for shift work and have a goal then this is the job for you. In camp accommodation, air-conned, fully catered for almost resort style, bus to and from work, air flights or drive. The job is demanding even stressful, 12 hr shifts, 7 on 7 off average, requires a strict routine but the pay off is awesome and certainly makes paying off a house a breeze.

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Excellent Company and facilities to work in

(HAYS Contractor) / Brisbane CBD, QLD (Former Employee) - Brisbane Central Business District QLD - 7 August 2019

Just worked for a short period of time as a contractor, but now it is my main goal to find a temporal job in this company. Facilities and wellbeing policies are amazing. Easy going and good infrastructure.

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Hard to work for

Machine Operator (Current Employee) - Newman WA - 1 August 2019

They always pay you on time, but that is where the positives stop. I've worked for this company for 8 years. Its gradually gotten worse for middle aged men. There is no progression pathways (contrary to what the tell you when you apply). They constantly move the goal posts, camp has gotten worse and worse over the past 5 years, working conditions are sub standard and none of the middle management team seem to listen. They have inexperienced people in supervisory roles and they are an equal outcome company. Equal outcome is an extremely dangerous program and will ultimately kill someone. I would not recommend working for BHP.

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Supervising Mining and Drilling (Former Employee) - Moranbah QLD - 28 July 2019

ompleted statutory audits and inspections. • Supervised a crew of 9 people and machinery. • Oversaw all Health Safety & Environment requirements, ensuring standards and procedures were maintained and targeted monthly predictions were being met. • Ensuring all training was compliant with legislation and company policy. • Daily Pre-starts, Tool box and Monthly Safety Meetings. • Liaise with management team and other departments to ensure there was minimal delay to mining schedule.

Pros

Policy

Cons

Long Hours

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Worst job I have ever had!

Rail (Former Employee) - Port Hedland WA - 23 July 2019

The place is beyond backwards. HR and General Managers in a purple circle who enable a savage and toxic culture to exist. You might get some extra cash but in return you will sell your soul, your family and precious moments in the process and it’s just not worth it. Don’t forget you’re just a number no matter how much you work your butt off, no matter what you sacrifice to be there.

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very productive and flexible place of work focused on employees personal development and workplace fulfillment

PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS PARTNER (Current Employee) - Perth Central Business District WA - 7 May 2019

A typical day at work involved core routine meetings .The culture of the organisation is focused on inclusion and diversity which makes this company great towork in

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Its good we can use the wifi

GENERAL SERVICCES MINER (Former Employee) - Olympic Dam SA - 7 April 2019

Need to be more organised with tools, equipment, cars, and heavy machinery. Need more crews on shift to finish jobs, and need people to be more safety aware.

Pros

1hr lunch breaks

Cons

Needs to look out for their workers

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Focused on Safety

Operator (Current Employee) - Daunia Coal Mine QLD - 27 March 2019

Focused on safety which is more important than tonnage. Fair working environment, with mixed culture. Currently in the process of very big changes. Inc. Management, transport to and from site.

Pros

Safety awareness

Cons

travel time to and from camp to site

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Productive fun workplace

Operator (Manned Pit) (Former Employee) - Pilbara WA - 22 March 2019

Was a fun and productive place to work. Had a really good life and work balance. Training and progression was looked upon favourabily. People were fair and just in the views on work.

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Great place to work

Dump Truck Operator (Former Employee) - Western Australia - 20 January 2019

I enjoyed working at Yandi. People were good and the management and the camp was great permanent rooms food was good and plenty of other sporting options and pool and gym.

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Good work place

Warehouse Operator (Former Employee) - Newman WA - 18 January 2019

• Loading and unloading of trucks , containers , vans • Order picking • Packing loads for safe transport • Stock binning • Stock counting • Investigations on goods returned to warehouse (RTW’S) • Constant LMS Training courses • Handling of dangerous goods and how to identify a DG HAZARD

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fun workplace

Shutdown Fitter (Former Employee) - Port Hedland WA - 6 January 2019

Carry out daily inspections of plant,reporting defects,keeping the plant running .Great place to work leadership and safety are a big focus with the company.

Pros

great work mates

Cons

none

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swimming pool & hot shower,s& onsweet,s

electrical. fitter/machanic (Former Employee) - Newcastle NSW - 3 January 2019

pulu bilatung and add on to bhp dutch bullay,s mine their ritch island in indoneisa speak circhill indo(little).served 4 year,s as electriccal/fitter machanic.good mob to work for.

Pros

good tucker.

Cons

sirfishant time @ on site.

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Good place to work with benefits

Crew Development Officer - Rail Operations (Former Employee) - Port Hedland WA - 2 January 2019

BHP looked after their staff very well when I first started work there but it slowly declined over the years with cuts to staff and a lot of the benefits abolished