People & Culture Manager

• Fraser Coast Region
• Site Travel
• Immediate start

Permanent People & Culture Manager position with a well-known global organisation.

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.

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 ***email_hidden***. 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. .