Practice Lead AI Excellence

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 through this leadership role!

About the Role

 

Digital is a bold team, driving BHP's edge in the digital space. We nurture creativity, innovation, and diverse thinking to solve major business challenges. In our dynamic, hands-on and highly energising environment, you will lead the advancement of both the industry and BHP’s strategic capabilities and technical system designs, as realised within our own business digital transformation. 

In this newly created role, representing BHP’s senior distinguished AI engineering position you will be responsible for driving technical excellence, innovation and strategy in artificial intelligence and machine learning. You will also guide and mentor AI engineers and data scientists across the company and collaborate across teams, projects and leadership to align AI with business goals and responsibilities.

As the Practice Lead AI Excellence, you will be accountable for:  

 

• Defining technical excellence for the advancement of BHP’s AI capabilities including optimization of models, productionizing at scale, strategic integration and orchestration of AI, and ensuring business use is fair, unbiased and ethically responsible.
• Outlining minimum sufficient requirements for AI that Assets and selected Functions must meet to maximise value, meet external commitments, and manage risks that are material at the Company level. 
• Monitoring and tracking AI excellence, where you will provide objective assurance over material risks and strategic objectives, focused on providing constructive and actionable recommendations to Assets and Functions to close gaps in performance. 
• Maintaining a high-caliber external network of expertise on current and emerging global best practice across core disciplines to share high value opportunities for replication, lessons learnt, and to respond to Asset requests for advice on problems of a technical nature.  
• Advising Assets and Functions to assess the application of data sciences & machine learning techniques in their given area.

As the Practice Lead AI Excellence, you can be based in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth or Santiago, however for other BHP office locations can be considered. 

About You

 

With an extensive background in roles such as Senior AI Engineer and Data Scientist, you will have had strong exposure and knowledge in machine learning, deep learning, LLMs, GenAI, and computer vision technologies.

 

By nature, you are a systems thinker who enjoys solving complex business challenges through the use of data and is able to gather insights which you are able to translate into actions and follow through with achieving sustainable outcomes and maximize value.  

 

Thriving in fast-paced environments, you will have a passion for learning new technologies that can improve our business and the way we work. Additionally, you will be energised by change, will be comfortable in drawing on your strong communication and relationship skills to influence your peers and leaders to deliver measurable and meaningful results. 

 

 A tertiary qualification in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology (or equivalent) is required. 

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.   

 

 

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