People & Culture Partner

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Detail information about job People & Culture Partner. Terms and conditions vacancy

Location Pinkenba – Brisbane

• Integral member of the People & Culture Team
• Globally significant brand
• Fast paced environment

The Company

Greyhound Australia is a global brand delivering safe, innovative, flexible and exceptional transport and tourism solutions through its extraordinary people and 100 year + heritage of sustainable business operations.

Greyhound Australia is primarily engaged in the long-distance bus transport and mining sectors.   Greyhound Australia bus transport activities also extend its exposure to road freight transport and tourism sectors. Our team comprises in-excess of 500 employees deployed across our national network of scheduled services. The business has defined an ambitious strategic focus and is currently mobilising significant resources to build a robust and profitable future.

The Role:

Our vision is to be Australasia’s leading and most loved travel company delivering cutting edge transport solutions, moving people and minds. Our mission is to deliver safe, innovative, flexible and exceptional transport solutions for our customers, through proactive engagement and development of our passionate people.

The People & Culture Team has a reputation for adding real business value. Building capability and providing the right tools and processes for the business to deliver its strategic outcomes is a strong focus of what we do. The People & Culture Team’s Strategic Objective is to ensure that Greyhound Australia has the right people with the right capabilities to execute its business strategy and deliver sustainable business performance.

We are looking for a highly effective and organised People & Culture Partner to join our close knit People & Culture Team to provide HR advice and support to managers and supervisors on workforce planning, recruitment, training, development, performance counselling, performance reviews and remuneration review processes. This role will be responsible for developing strong internal relationships across geographical dispersed segments of the Greyhound Australia business. The People & Culture Partner will also be called upon to lead and support HR projects from time to time as will a requirement for intra and interstate travel.

To be successful, you must possess a demonstrated ability in advising managers possessing ranging experience levels with the understanding and application of Enterprise Agreements and contracts, and industrial relations requirements. Providing excellent customer service delivery by coaching managers and supervisors with people matters all with high attention to detail and integrity is paramount to succeed in this role. Supporting managers through performance counselling and disciplinary processes, including providing advice on appropriate action, documentation and conducting meetings will form a major part of your weekly activities therefore a solid background with conducting difficult conversations would be highly regarded.

If you are seeking the next step in your HR journey and willing to work hard to learn new skills and expand on your current knowledge base in a fast paced environment, please submit your application below. 

Mandatory

• Tertiary qualifications (or working towards) in appropriate Business, HR/IR related disciplines
• Previous experience in a generalist HR or employee relations role
• Previous experience in performance counselling processes
• Exceptional ability to build relationships and influence at all organisational levels and with external stakeholders
• Self-starter, demonstrates initiative, sound judgement and problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage conflict
• Highly organised and able to deal with large volumes of work, multiple priorities and a fast pace
• A strong customer orientation and preparedness to work with and influence through others to achieve results
• A strong results orientation whilst demonstrating a professional work ethic
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Desirable

• Exposure to blue collar environments - preferably the transport industry

• Experience in using Chris21 for record management and reporting