Training & Personal Development at BHP

As I am in a graduate program, I am always under mentoring. But I discovered my independent working skills and applying on my every task. Sometimes you need to do things as per your experience and knowledge. In a graduate program you need to soak up the knowledge as you can. It totally depends on the individual to learn and grow.

I am getting enough training to develop my technical skills as well as my interpersonal skills. Thank you.

Right down the middle. Can be more hands on.

Graduate have 6 days of technical training a year, split to two sessions. Role-specific training depends on teams, usually 2-5 development days per year. On going training and development are flexible and designed by yourself and your interest that aligns with your current role, based on discussion with your 1-up.

People skills

Range of training opportunity available

Graduate program was good, provided a solid start to my development at the company although was often focused on more technical disciplines (engineering, geology, technology) rather than my discipline. Since being in my role I've been well supported to participate in workshops, role coverage opportunities and in-term upskilling.

Aside from the majority of safety training for being on site and underground, I had training on working at heights, leadership training and skills required to do my job such as using systems like SAP. I also got to work on my public speaking skills through running meetings and doing presentations

Seems to be asset dependent, from what i've heard it seems like other asset in BHP have a much better structured graduate program and path, the traiing they provide is top notch. My current team is nice as well, but it's not well structured at all. Good thing they have rotation for graduate program, so you always got the chance to be in other part of the company to see the differences between each group.

Majorly increased the safety culture in a workplace and importance of communication.

Training has been constant both formal grad training and extra ad hoc training.

There is little development training offered internal to the company that isn't for covering internal practices such as risk assessments.

Good training but the systems are very confusing.

Expected more. No formal training list or schedule for role but training matrix is being developed. You have to be proactive in figuring out what training you want to do, and should usually get support from leaders if it is in your development plan and you can justify why to do it. Budget for training is smaller than expected for a company like BHP.

BHP has strong internal training and allows for many opportunities to do external training. Through BHP I have done the Radiation Safety Officer course run through the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, and a postgraduate Radiation Protection course run through Strathclyde University in Scotland. Internally, I have also completed many field training activities such as working at heights, working in confined spaces and 4WD training.

Formal pump training, root cause analysis training. Informal training opportunities through shadowing opportunities.

some formal training is offered, however a lot of training I have to ask to do myself. This can be seen as me not trying hard enough to get my work done and preferring to not be at work, when in actual fact this should help me with my work.

18-24 months of graduate program with a log book which guided you through your leaving. It's very thorough, and everything in there is worth learning. Every couple of months we have a grad forum where we congregate in Perth and do some common days for networking and special training, and a few days just focusing on our specific areas.

We have graduate technical forums twice a year where the grads organize external/internal resources to do technical presentations/workshops. BHP also engage DBL to cover professional development. There is a portion of the graduate budget assigned to training, where if a grad can organize a session and justify appropriately they will pay for it.

A mix of good and bad - training that I have requested to do has all been very good. The graduate training is a mixed bag - some of the forced training is not so enjoyable, and often it seems feedback is not taken on board.