P&C Business Partner

**People & Culture (P&C) Business Partner**
- ** Join a secure industry providing essential services Australia wide**:

- ** Strategic People & Culture Business Partner role**:

- ** Values based organisation**

Pacific National (PN) is the largest private provider of diversified rail freight services in Australia. We haul a variety of freight including coal, intermodal containers, steel, and a range of bulk commodities and materials that keep the region’s economy, businesses and households running.

Pacific National has an opportunity for an experienced P&C Business Partner to join our team based at our Adelaide Freight Terminal, in Regency Park. Reporting to the Senior P&C Manager, the P&C Business Partner will partner with our operational businesses, with key accountability for the support of multiple operational sites in SA.

Accountable for a wide range of HR activities, the P&C Business Partner will play a vital role in partnering with and providing guidance to our business leaders and employees on a range of aspects including but not limited to grievances, investigations, performance management and development, employee relations, organisational capability, EA, interpretation, and workforce strategy.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Provide strategic and tactical advice, support and solutions on people matters to build organisational and leadership capability.
- Provide accurate and timely advice to business stakeholders on all ER/IR matters including risk rating and risk mitigation strategies and assist the business with implementation
- Identify trends and proactively support business leaders to react and solve, with focus on ensuring mitigation of people risk.
- Play an active role in business unit initiatives, including the delivery of the strategic people plan and change initiatives.
- Use data driven insights to identify trends and develop actionable plans to address emerging issues and improve employee relations.
- Contribute to business success through the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and procedures based on relevant industrial agreements and/or legislation and HR management practices.
- Partner with leaders through the employee lifecycle events and talent review cycles, including performance management, talent reviews, succession plans, career development planning, labour planning and diversity and inclusion.
- Demonstrated experience working autonomously in industrially complex environments.
- A sound understanding of Policy, employment law and employee relations; with demonstrated behaviours that are aligned with best practice and our values.
- Is a confident problem solver, a collaborative team player with strong communication and negotiation skills to implement positive change.
- Has a proactive and structured approach and is not afraid to get involved and contribute.
- Is goal oriented and can manage multiple priorities effectively.

We are seeking applicants who share our values: Make it simple, Share More, Kindness, Gratitude, Curiosity, and Own it. These values help us achieve strong connections with everyone we work with and play an important part in motivating us all to do our best work.

**The benefits**

When you join the Pacific National team, you’ll be encouraged to take ownership of your career and we’ll be there to support you with a range of exciting initiatives including:

- Industry leading programs focussed on your growth and career development
- Paid parental leave up to 14 weeks, with superannuation - after only 6 months service
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- A focus on your mental health and wellbeing through our PeerConnect program
- Discounted fitness and wellbeing benefits with membership to WhereFit, our wellbeing benefits partner
- Novated leasing and discounts on selected health insurance funds, travel, retail brands, vehicles and more

We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for women, and you can visit our Work180 page Pacific National | WORK180 Endorsed Employer to find out more including a list of all of our benefits and policies.

**Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?**

**Closing date**

Applications close on the 13th of October 2024.

**Next steps**

Are you ready to be part of our future?

To apply, please click on the 'Apply' button below and follow the prompts.

**Acknowledgement of Country**

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live and rail. We pay respect to Elders past, present, and future and to the continuation of cultural, spiritual, and educational practices of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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