About BHP Chile

At BHP, we bring people and resources together to build a better world. We foster an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture where everyone feels safe, respected, and empowered to thrive. With a global portfolio and a strong commitment to sustainability, we offer our teams opportunities to grow, lead meaningful transformations, and make a lasting impact.

About BHP Chile

At BHP, we bring people and resources together to build a better world. We foster an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture where everyone feels safe, respected, and empowered to thrive. With a general portfolio and a strong commitment to sustainability, we offer our teams opportunities to grow, lead meaningful transformations, and make a lasting impact.

We are united by our values, our dedication to safety, and our belief that great people drive great outcomes.

Why not you? Why not BHP?

The challenge Ahead

Leads a team focussed on leading engineering strategies, standards and frameworks that ensure the engineering process and design is optimised and enables safe, efficient construction, commissioning and operation. Coaches and develops team leaders / teams to deliver high performance.

Main Responsibilities

- Lead discipline engineering strategy and execution across the project lifecycle, applying deep technical expertise and ensuring compliance with BHP requirements, applicable regulations, Project, Construction and Commissioning Engineering Standards, and effective safety controls.
- Apply a sound understanding of discipline-specific engineering terminology, theory, key processes and activities across relevant fields, including civil, structural, process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and control.




- Establish and implement engineering strategies, plans, standards, processes and systems for capital projects, ensuring alignment with the project engineering strategy and requirements across study and execution phases.
- Determine minimum quality requirements, execute quality management plans and review quality control activities to achieve technical, functional, business and project quality objectives.
- Plan, manage and monitor engineering scope, schedule, cost, progress, value and risk; address deviations and support costing and scheduling evaluations to meet integrated project requirements.
- Deliver the engineering information and outputs required by the master schedule, tender and bid processes, and enable timely purchase orders for critical equipment, materials and services while minimising quantity variations during execution.
- Plan and lead engineering governance and assurance activities, including design and constructability reviews, verification of construction methodologies and technical decisions, to ensure solutions are safe, fit for purpose, cost-effective, constructable, operable and maintainable.
- Identify and assess risks, make risk-informed decisions using BHP’s risk management framework, and build a risk-aware culture that supports safe and productive performance outcomes.




- Determine the underlying causes of complex engineering problems and evaluate multiple solutions through a planned, analytical and structured approach.
- Identify, engage, influence and manage diverse internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with Project, Study, Construction, Commissioning, Operations and Maintenance teams to integrate requirements, methodologies, strategies and systems throughout delivery.
- Support the selection of engineering consultants, contractors and vendors; coordinate and manage third-party engineering performance and oversee the quality, productivity and approval of key deliverables.

What We Expect From You

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Minimum 12 years’ experience in mining projects with focus in design, and with experience in tender process documents preparation.
- Knowledge in discipline design, experience in cost estimate, execution plans, scheduling of medium and large mining projects and in tender process for services contracts (Engineering, Construction and Services).
- Competent in the use of relevant software across the project delivery ecosystem, including MS Office, Aconex, Primavera and other applicable project management and engineering systems.
- English spoken and written.

Skills And Capabilities

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or similar)
- High level of technical proficiency in the relevant engineering discipline.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex information and translate it into practical recommendations.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across internal and external groups.
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship

📌 Lead Principal Engineering | BHP Chile (Santiago)
🏢 BHP
📍 Santiago