Principal Pc&a

**Date**:3 Nov 2025- **Job Posting End Date**:

- **Job Country**:Chile- **Job State/Province**:Santiago- **Job Location/Region**:

- **About BHP**-
- Welcome to BHP Here we empower the professional development of all our teams to reach their full potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with exceptional job opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values charter, and where their skills are the key to our success.-
- Why not you? Why not BHP?- ** About the role**-
- The purpose of this role is to provides technical expertise in the provision of project services (e.g. scope, estimated/actual cost, planning and scheduling, budgets, changes, progress and forecasting) to influence the on-time and on-budget delivery of project objectives.-
- Responsabilities:- Analysis of current and external trends as well as the transference of lessons from current/ historical projects.
- Deep expertise and experience in all study phases, under estimation area.
- Identification and implementation of improvement initiatives including programmatic opportunities for increased capital efficiency and productivity.
- Coordinating and consolidating the estimate development methodology for the cost estimate or parts of a cost estimate.
- Accountability for the estimate development deliverables produced by the Engineering Service Provider or Specialist Estimating providers.
- Providing cost estimate expertise for the development of cost management related deliverables and ensuring that the estimate is developed to align with Control Budget creation requirements.
- Coordinating the consistent use of engineering deliverables, scope of work, and other documents to develop estimate.
- Validates and monitors that the estimate is developed and supported by the BHP minimum requirements appropriate to the class of estimate.
- Coordinates and consolidates the basis of the estimate development including any assumptions, qualifications and exclusions.
- Aligning and integrates estimate development schedule with the project master schedule.
- An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development.-
- **About You**-
- Requirements (minimum):- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
- Cost estimation experience, preferably in the Mining industry at a Senior level.
- Willingness to work overtime as necessary to meet deadlines.
- Intermediate/Advanced level in Microsoft Office systems, e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
- Accurately evaluate detailed specifications that are crucial to a cost estimator’s success.
- Intermediate English Level.- Location: Santiago- Mandatory requirement: Availability to travel to our assets- ** Supporting a Diverse Workforce**-
- The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides 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’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognize that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.