Principal, Business Improvement

Date: Aug 4, 2026

Tucson, AZ, US, 85718

South32 Group Operations Pty. Ltd.

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ABOUT Hermosa

Hermosa, located approximately 75 miles south-east of Tucson, Arizona, is the only advanced mining project in the United States as of 2023 that could produce two federally designated critical minerals—manganese and zinc—as well as silver and lead. The project has the potential to help power the nation’s clean energy future, strengthen the domestic supply chain of critical minerals, grow the local economy, and improve lives in Santa Cruz County and the surrounding community for generations to come.

ACERCA de Hermosa

Hermosa, ubicado a aproximadamente 75 millas al sur este de Tucson, Arizona, es el único proyecto de minería avanzada en los Estados Unidos hasta la fecha que puede producir dos minerales designados como críticos por el gobierno federal: manganeso y zinc, así como también plata y plomo. El proyecto tiene el potencial de ayudar a impulsar el futuro energético limpio del país, reforzar la cadena de suministro nacional de minerales esenciales, hacer crecer la economía local y mejorar la calidad de vida en el condado de Santa Cruz y en las comunidades aledañas para las generaciones venideras.

WHAT SOUTH32 OFFERS

• Annual short-term incentive bonus that recognizes both your individual performance and the overall success of the business.
• When you choose to contribute more into your retirement savings, South32 will match it up to a certain percentage.
• South32 provides you with 4 weeks paid time off.
• 12 weeks full-paid parental leave for primary carers and 2 weeks full-paid parental leave for secondary carers

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Principal, Business Improvement role will play a key leadership role in designing, implementing, and sustaining the Hermosa Operating System while driving continuous improvement across the project and future operation. Working closely with project leaders and cross-functional stakeholders, you will help shape how the business plans, measures performance, identifies opportunities, and delivers value.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the development of a major mining project from construction through operations, establishing the processes, governance, and improvement culture that will support long-term operational excellence. This role is based at the Hermosa mine site near Patagonia, AZ.

Other key responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to

Operating System

• Lead the development of the Hermosa operational MOS by partnering with project resources and external resources from scoping through development and implementation
• Provide support to embed the Hermosa Operating System across functions and operations

Act as the operation champion and coach for the Hermosa and global Operating Systems, educating, raising awareness, and providing feedback to the central Innovation & Business Optimisation team.

Support capability-building in the Operating System practices

• Support the design of overall visualisation and implementation approach for the Hermosa MOS
• Business Improvement Future State Development
• Support the planning of the future state of the Hermosa Business Improvement team
• Partner with Hermosa personnel, other South32 Operations, and global functions to develop a framework for Hermosa Life of Operation (LoOP) planning routines
• Collaborate with other Operations to ensure Hermosa’s improvement routines incorporate learnings and align with Hermosa’s mine of the future vision.
• Full Potential and Improvement Pipeline (Once Operational)

Perform annual full potential diagnostics to inform maximum technical capability (MTC) and set improvement targets and identify key focus areas based on highest value opportunities.

• Govern and manage the operation improvement pipeline to ensure sufficient pipeline health, cadence of initiative delivery and gap closure to MTC and Improvement target(s).
• Business Planning and Alignment
• Coordinate development, management and quarterly reviews of the project business plan, in alignment with the South32 Business Planning and Alignment process.
• Support Hermosa Lead Team (HLT) to maintain operation-level Business Calendar and govern its accuracy
• Support the project in updating and reporting on scorecard metrics

Visualisation and Analytics

Support the design of the operation based on Operating System requirements, to accelerate delivery of outcomes through data-enabled decision making.

Partner with Digital Technology to develop an overall visualisation and analytics plan for the operation, aligned with the Full Potential and Improvement Pipeline process and embedded within the Operations Technology Plan.

Partner with Digital Technology team to provide visualisation and analytics capability uplift through provision of training, coaching, tools and templates.

Where applicable, lead and provide an analytics capability for the operation including data analytics, data science and simulations to enable specific high-value improvement initiatives.

Frontline Improvement (Project though to Operations)

• Support South32 leaders to systematically promote and manage frontline employee and contractor-initiated ideas to generate improvement outcomes
• Govern the project/operation frontline improvement pipeline to ensure frontline improvement processes are working effectively and frontline feel engaged and empowered

Improvement Capability

Identify and manage improvement capability needs for