HR / Ir Manager

6 months ago


Newcastle, Australia UGL Limited Full time

We’re changing the way Australia generates its energy, are you ready for a change?
- UGL’S Utilities team designs, constructs, and maintains critical infrastructure across the water and power sectors. Ranging from wastewater treatment plants to power stations. We design and construct the following assets: power generation, transmission lines, substations, electrical distribution networks, water and wastewater treatment plans and water pipelines.
- Our Utilities team works hard and celebrates successes and efforts. If you are looking for a bright future and opportunity to grow your career, then join UGL - a great place to work

**About the role**
- We are looking for an IR / HR Manager to provide high quality and timely Employee and Industrial Relations Advice to the managers and the project team. This is a site based role in The Hunter Valley region of NSW.

**Some key responsibilities of this role will include**:

- Manage IR issues on site in line with workplace agreement/modern Awards/Legislation and company policies
- Union Liaison for Right of Entry and other matters
- Provide advice on conditions of employment
- Develop and implement IR solutions that achieve Project objectives
- Coordinate IR across the Project to ensure consistency is maintained in the handling of all IR issues
- Monitor Project specific Project Awards / Agreements / EBA in accordance to policy
- Provide advice in relation to the current industry IR environment and union expectations during the tender process
- Liaise with employer associations to remain informed about developments in the industry and to contribute the Projects perspective on industry-wide matters under consideration by the employer associations
- Develop strong working relationships key internal and external stakeholders with site-based management, union representatives, employees and client IR personnel, and capacity to influence decisions relating to IR/ER matters
- Lead and support the mobilisation process and ensure IR deliverables are met

**About you**
- You will have extensive HR & IR experience, preferably working on large construction infrastructure projects (site experience highly regarded)
- Experience to provide written and verbal advice on a day-to-day basis and offer sound, practical and accurate advice and solutions for the project across all IR/ER aspects such as enterprise bargaining and dispute management
- Demonstrated experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating solutions for industrial relations issues
- Experience with Fair Work Australia e.g., conciliations.
- Demonstrated IR experience in unionised industry e.g., right of entry to site and day to day questions or difficulties
- Project site-based P&C experience highly regarded

**What makes you right for UGL**
- Ability to provide a safe, supportive, and positive workplace
- Empower a united and collaborative culture
- Deliver technical excellence and create efficient, innovative solutions
- Build an enviable reputation and the trust of employees, clients, and other stakeholders
- Genuine concern for safety

**Why Unite with the Very Best**
- A competitive salary working in a rewarding, supportive and successful team
- Back yourself and your development, and UGL will back your growth
- Flexible and blended work environment; make use of flexible working and our impressive employee benefits, including:

- A rewarding Wellness Program with AIA Vitality - earn cashback for gym shoes
- We’ll give you access to a multitude of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment.
- You can also take advantage of our salary sacrifice options including cars, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.

**UGL - Big projects. Big careers.**

We keep Australia moving through our transport manufacturing, maintenance and operations offering, and we support the energy sector through our renewables, power generation, resources and transmission operations. We are an end-to-end engineering and services provider (one of Australia’s biggest inhouse design houses)

We’re the people behind communications, transport, utilities, power, oil, gas, Defence and renewables. We build tunnels under rivers and flyover roads. We’re the people who take on the problems that have never been solved. The ones that stretch you outside of what’s known, where your true genius is challenged and shines.

**Diversity & Social Inclusion**

UGL respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in which we work and pays our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate an applicant’s suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. It’s good to know



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