People & Culture Manager
QLD - Hervey Bay
Full Time
Job description
Hays has partnered with a leading organisation within the industrial sector is seeking an experienced People & Culture Manager. This role is to partner with operational leaders across Queensland and drive key people initiatives across a large, workforce-driven environment.
Your new role
This is a great opportunity to join a complex and fast-paced business where you will play a key role in workforce strategy, talent development, change management and operational HR delivery. Reporting to the People & Culture Director, you will partner closely with leaders while leading a small team and supporting a diverse workforce.Your new role
In this broad business partnering position, you will:
- Partner with operational leaders to deliver strategic and operational HR outcomes.
- Provide expert advice across employee relations, performance management and workforce planning.
- Lead and support organisational change initiatives.
- Coach and develop leaders on people management best practice.
- Support workforce capability, retention and succession planning activities.
- Partner with specialist teams across recruitment, learning and development, and industrial relations.
- Manage investigations, performance matters and employee relations issues.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across people processes and systems.
- Maintain strong stakeholder relationships across operations, leadership teams and workforce representatives.
What you'll need to succeed
- Significant experience in a People & Culture Manager, HR Business Partner or senior HR leadership position.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with operational and frontline workforces.
- Strong employee and industrial relations capability.
- Experience working within unionised and blue-collar environments.
- Proven ability to influence and coach senior stakeholders.
- Strong HR systems knowledge and experience driving process improvement.
- Sound understanding of Australian employment legislation and contemporary HR practices.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Organisational Psychology or a related discipline.
What you'll get in return
- Opportunity to influence people strategy across a large operational workforce.
- Diverse and challenging business partnering portfolio.
- Supportive leadership team and collaborative culture.
- Exposure to major workforce and change initiatives.
- Long-term career development opportunities within a well-established organisation.
What you need to do now
If this role sounds like you forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or for further information you can contact Enya Gallagher on 07 3243 3049 or 
. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. .
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