Fuels Australia HR Manager

About Bureau Veritas: 

Created in 1828, Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services.

We have a vital role in maintaining quality, safety and environmental standards of countless products, commodities, systems, buildings, infrastructure, and projects. 

In every industry sector we play, Bureau Veritas acts as a trusted guardian of the quality, safety and environmental standards which protect our population and safeguard our communities.

For over 70 years, Bureau Veritas has been serving the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand. Today, our business 2,800+ employees and operates 50 offices and labs across the Pacific.  

Fuels

Bureau Veritas provides high quality data to accurately assess the quantity and quality of a wide range of commodities as they move through global supply chains​ providing inspections and laboratory testing services ​for all Oil & Petrochemicals as well as coal.

Role Purpose

To act as a catalyst and consultant for business leaders providing a professional HR service within Fuels Australia. The HR Manager will educate teams on the value-add activities of HR and how this can support their operations.

Business, organisational, and functional knowledge are all essential to drive focus on leveraging networks, innovating with people practices supporting business strategy, using data to drive decision making and developing leadership for today and tomorrow.

The HR Manager is expected to be adaptable and to operate across both strategic and operational matters, providing sound advice, coaching and support in a fast-paced, complex and growing organisation.

Bringing strategy to life through smart, practical, people-first solutions. The focus of the role will be on retaining and attracting the best people, reducing attrition, and developing an inclusive culture.

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide trusted, senior-level HR advice and coaching to business leaders across Fuels Australia.
• Drive a high-performance, engaged culture by ensuring a focus on performance and development in people decisions and strategies. Reviewing Talent decisions and succession and development plans ensuring focus also on management of underperformance.
• Help support the HR model using our HRIS system and the HR Shared Services model to ensure we work collaboratively across the team
• Maintain a commercial view of people practices translating business needs into practical people plans, actions and solutions.
• Work alongside the Recruitment team to ensure Fuels Australia has a clear, agreed, workforce plan. Focus on proactive recruitment, annual resource forecasting, quality of recruitment processes and local on-boarding practices to attract the best people.
• Focus on Engagement activities in Fuels Australia – engaging employees through a variety of mechanisms and formats to ensure employees are listened to, involved, and aligned to Fuels’ strategy.
• Understand and design any training needs –proposing training opportunities and programs
• Display role model leadership behaviour through embedding feedback and coaching relationships, influencing key stakeholders to challenge effectively and drive business change
• Enhance and build the capability of the organization incorporating the HR strategic agenda into Fuels’ strategic planning and development to improve competitive position.
• Facilitate successful completion of employee engagement survey process with follow-on action planning in Fuels Australia
• Lead and support on projects to provide a HR service that is focused on continuous improvement – project management focus to successfully lead on cyclical HR projects (Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion, CSR, HR Process Digitalisation)

Employee relations

• Lead or support complex workplace investigations, ensuring matters are managed fairly, consistently and in line with state and federal legislative frameworks.
• Support compliance with Australian workplace legislation, including Fair Work Act obligations, Workplace Gender Equality reporting requirements, and company governance requirements.
• Manage employee relations, minimising cost and risk through negotiating enterprise bargaining agreements and supporting leaders when cases arise whilst balancing with business priorities. Proactively foreseeing risk to ultimately minimise employee relations cases.
• Supporting an inclusive culture to maximise employee engagement and future talent pipeline/growth opportunities.
• Drive consistent standards across Fuels Australia, leading on performance management and creating an increased feedback culture
• Support consultation, change management and communication processes relating to organisational change.
• Ensure all policies and processes are adhered to consistently

Deliverables

• Strong presentation and communication skills to engage with all teams, able to use different styles when required
• Develop trusted partnering relationships between HR and business leaders and managers
• An annual HR/Talent retention, succession, and development plan for Fuels Australia
• People data / MI using HRIS system containing headcount, recruitment activity/ workforce plan, employee relations activity, PDP data, talent data, attrition, absence
• Partner with finance business partner to manage headcount cost and provide MI into Business/function
• Legal/employee relations costs mitigated within division/function.
• Support delivery against HR/recruitment KPIs – proactive engagement with stakeholders
• Role model against leadership behaviours, core values and code of ethics - personal impact

About You   

• Influencing, impact and coaching
• Extensive business and HR experience
• Collaboration with stakeholders
• Project/ change management
• Demonstrated experience managing complex employee relations and industrial relations matters, including enterprise bargaining preparation and union engagement
• Good understanding of employment legislation and policy/ working practices
• Commercial awareness – understands the impact of people decisions

How we care 

We offer a competitive salary and an opportunity to advance your career in a leading global organisation, as well as:  

• Fantastic Training and Development opportunities 

• Discounted Health & Wellbeing Platform  

• Free access to our Employee Assistance Program supported by Lifework’s  

• Discounted Health Insurance with Bupa 

• Access to Cliqit, an employee retail discounts portal 

• Superannuation Salary Sacrifice 

A rewarding career   

This role offers more than building a resume—it’s a chance to leave your mark. We offer you the opportunity to build your career and give you the recognition you deserve. Make an impact doing work you can be proud of at Bureau Veritas. Contribute to a global mission to enhance standards with integrity, and help us create a brighter future for our next generations, and a safer society for us all. The opportunity to work within a supportive close-knit team, learn new skills and gain training which could lead to the broader Bureau Veritas network for future career development. 

 Apply now to join Bureau Veritas and help us create a brighter future for our next generations, and a safer society for us all.   

Bureau Veritas is an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply for roles at Bureau Veritas, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Veterans (Defence experience is desirable) and people of all backgrounds. If you have any support or access requirements, we will partner with you and assist you through our recruitment process.