P&C Manager

**People & Culture (P&C) Manager**
- ** Join a large and experienced P&C Team of over 50 individuals**:

- ** 18-month max term contract, based in Acacia Ridge, Hybrid working option**:

- ** Values based organisation**

**About us**

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. We are a company built on solid foundations and we are incredibly proud of the essential role we continue to play supporting Australia’s supply chain. At Pacific National, we take great pride in delivering our best every day and have a relentless focus on customer service and place **safety above all else**.

We operate nationally with approximately 3,500 staff in over 90+ sites across Australia. We respect and care for the communities in which we operate and continue to evolve our community engagement and strengthen relationships through partnerships and investment. We are focused on reducing the carbon emissions of our business, while also enabling the reduction of carbon emissions in the broader supply chain to support the National targets.

**About the role**

At Pacific National we deliver what matters - for our people, our customers, and our shareholders. We are a connected network powered by people, moving essential services across the length and breadth of Australia.

Reporting to the Senior People and Culture Manager, the P&C Manager takes up the role of functional expert and business leader. Partners with the business, business leaders and the wider People & Culture team to create a high-performance culture where employees are engaged and aligned to the Pacific National (PN) strategy.

The role focus is responsible for partnering with the business leaders to delivery best practise people solutions, providing guidance on industrial/employee relations issues, driving change, supporting building people capability, performance management, workforce engagement and culture.

This role is a real opportunity to work as a key member of an experienced P&C team of over 50 individuals to support a vast, geographically dispersed business.

Key responsibilities include:

- Provide coaching, guidance, and support to leaders in executing business strategic objectives.
- Provides accurate and timely advice to business stakeholders on all ER/IR matters including risk rating and risk mitigation strategies and assists the business with implementation.
- Efficiently manages disputes, grievances, union relationship issues as well as FWA matters with support from the Senior Manager P&C and/or legal team as required.
- Develops position descriptions and completes job evaluations, making recommendations to business stakeholders on remuneration level and role classification.
- Support organisational succession planning processes, leveraging talent reviews and Talent initiatives to identify talent risks and opportunities.
- Drives employee engagement initiatives and partners with business leadership to drive cultural change.

**About you**

As an experienced Human Resources / P&C Manager with relevant work experience within an industrial/blue collar environment, you will have highly developed interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships and communicate with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Prior experience in infrastructures of logistics industries beneficial.
- Experience in managing multiple tasks within a fast paced, multi focused work environment.
- Superior interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and reporting skills.
- Acts with discretion and demonstrates the highest levels of integrity and confidentiality.
- Demonstrated ability to build effective and trusting business relationships.

**The benefits**

At Pacific National we value diversity, inclusion, and the contribution of each team member. Our values underpin our commitment to create an inclusive culture where everyone is accepted and valued for who they are, enabling everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.

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
- Parental benefits for birth, surrogacy, adoption, foster care, and kinship care
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- A focus on your mental health and wellbeing through our PeerConnect program
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, administered by Benestar, offering confidential counselling services for employees and their eligible family members, paid for by us