Manager Employee Relations

**Date**:27 Aug 2024**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia**Job State/Province**:South Australia**Job Location/Region**:Adelaide**About BHP**

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.
- About the Role- An exciting opportunity has arisen to fill the position of Manager Employee Relations, based in Adelaide, for an experienced Employee Relations Manager to join our high performing team.- This role is part of the Employee Relations sub-function of Human Resources and has responsibility for strategic employee relations matters to enable safe, sustainable and productive outcomes in BHP’s South Australian Copper business.- Reporting to the Head of Employee Relations Minerals Australia and working collaboratively with the business, HR sub-functions, Legal and other supporting functions, this role is a strategic, proactive partner to senior business leaders offering a regionally consistent approach on complex employee and industrial relations matters.- This role leaders a team of ER professionals focused on delivering practical and strategic employee and industrial relations solutions, balancing risk management and enabling business priorities.- Core Responsibilities:
- Leads the delivery of ER strategic actions and plans, including the development of local strategies and tactical plans to enable business priorities.
- Partners with senior leaders to provide evidence-based and strategic advice in alignment with longer term business objectives.
- Applies an understanding of internal and external business context and BHP operating model to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance. Ability to confidently analyse and interpret data to support advice and decision-making is an advantage.
- Identifies, effectively engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.
- Identifies risks, makes risk adjusted/informed decisions and implements BHP's risk management framework to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
- Relentlessly pursues continuous improvement, leveraging BHP’s Operating System to achieve excellence.
- About You- Experience in a large organisation with multiple enterprise agreements and a large operational workforce
- Experience leading, motivating and developing a team and bringing teams together in a flexible and collaborative work environment
- Exemplary commitment to inclusive leadership and ensuring psychological safety and wellbeing
- Advanced stakeholder engagement and influencing capabilities with ability to leverage internal and external stakeholder relationships at all levels
- Expertise in Australian industrial relations and employment legislation and ability to provide up-to-date industrial relations advice and information
- Demonstrable experience in developing strategies and supporting tactical plans, strategic decision-making and risk management
- Cross functional HR experience where deep analytical and problem solving skills were developed
- Experience in enterprise agreement negotiations and managing ER risks in business transformation initiatives is essential
- Strong work ethic, ability to prioritise business critical activities and a willingness to travel regionally/interstate regularly
- Mining, Manufacturing and/or Oil and Gas industry experience is desirable
- Bachelor's degree in HR, IR or Law is an advantage, experience in employee relations or relevant field is essential
- Based in Adelaide or willingness to relocate

BHP’s Ways of Working Framework requires at least 2-3 days per week in office/on site and travel to our operational sites or interstate offices as required. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements.**About Our Process**

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants 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.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we off