📢 Human Resources Business Partner/ People & Culture Manager

📍 Location: Canberra, ACT

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time 12 month Fixed Term

💼 Industry: People and Culture/Human Resources

💰 Salary: Competitive + Benefits

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Make a real impact every day | Drive engagement & build strong relationships | Support a diverse blue-collar workforce

People & Culture Business Partnering

Are you an experienced People & Culture professional looking for a role where you can make a real impact every day? We’re seeking a highly capable People & Culture Manager to join our team and partner with our operational leaders across a large workforce.

Reporting to the General Manager – People & Culture, this role will work from our Canberra site.

This is a hands-on P&C generalist role with responsibility for driving employee engagement, providing strategic and operational HR advice, and managing complex employee and industrial relations matters, including union engagement.

🔧 What You’ll Do

• Provide expert advice to leaders on all aspects of the employee lifecycle.
• Partner with our site leaders in providing HR/ER guidance, support and advice to coordinate and resolve people management issues.
• Build positive relationships with unions and support effective consultation and issue resolution.
• Partner with leaders to strengthen culture, engagement, and workforce capability.
• Coach and support managers to build confidence in leading their teams.
• Contribute to workforce planning, policy, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and foster critical stakeholder relationships.

🎯 What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in a People & Culture / HR generalist role.
• Strong knowledge of employee and industrial relations, with experience working directly with unions.
• Experience working within a large workforce (1,000+ employees)
• A pragmatic and solutions-focused style, balancing compliance with people and business needs.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across all levels of an organisation including internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience supporting a large, blue-collar or complex workforce is highly regarded.
• Experience in coaching and leading a high performing team, values driven, committed to integrity, community, and creating a supportive, inclusive culture where every team member is valued and empowered.

🌟 Why Join Us?

• Impact: Play a key role in managing people and culture program delivery to our frontline workforce
• Growth: Access to professional development and career advancement opportunities
• Culture: Join a collaborative, inclusive, and forward-thinking team
• Rewards: Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package

How to Apply:
Click on the 'apply' link and complete the online application.

Our Commitment:
ISS fosters a culture of inclusion and diversity, welcoming applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, people with disabilities, individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds, and LGBTIQA+ communities. We are committed to fair pay and a safe working environment.

Learn more about ISS in Australia and New Zealand on our website.

Please note: No agency applications are accepted