HR Advisor

Innovative ASX project development company creating greener battery materials
- Strong diversification of projects across battery supply chain, technology
- Autonomous role providing both strategic and operational support

Neometals is an emerging sustainable battery materials producer. Our technologies, particularly those in battery materials recycling and recovery, reduce reliance on traditional mining and processing and support circular economic principles.

Neometals works in collaboration with strong global partners to support the transition to clean energy and its proprietary processing technologies underpin three distinct business units that span the battery value chain.

Neometals is a company committed to its vision, values and most importantly, its people. The Company is proud of the work environment it has created for its dedicated team and keeps culture at the forefront of decision making.

The HR Advisor is responsible for delivering a wide range of both strategic and operational support through the development and implementation of effective HR frameworks, policies, procedures, systems and Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) compliance and reporting.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Assist the Executive Management with the design, development and implementation of human resource functions, health and safety processes, organisational development, remuneration frameworks, recruitment strategy, and learning and development policies and systems.
- Manage, report and assess HR related budgets and expenditure, and follow appropriate internal accounting controls ensuring that necessary action is taken to enable effective cost, financial and management reporting.
- Work closely with managers to provide advice, expertise, coaching and support on a full range of HR activities, including policies and procedures, terms and conditions of employment, absence management, performance management, redundancy planning, career development, salary and benefits, relevant employment legislation, and disciplinary actions as required.
- Maintain HR policies, procedures and templates to ensure effective, fair and consistent management of employees throughout the Company and to ensure that all HR processes abide by current and relevant employment law.
- Ensure that the employee handbook(policies) is comprehensive, up-to-date and aligned with the Company standard and current legislation.
- Develop and implement effective strategies to attract, recruit, develop and retain a highly engaged and committed workforce.
- In consultation with managers, follow up individual development needs and source external training provision as required, monitoring training costs against budget.
- Manage investigations, disciplinary and grievance matters in conjunction with Company policies and procedures.
- Ensure that information held on HR records and personnel files is accurate, kept confidential, up-to-date and complies with any legal protection laws.
- Coordinate compensation processes including salary planning, bonus planning and incentive schemes development.
- Manage the full employee life cycle including the onboarding, offboarding and termination of employees.
- Monitor and review the system of performance appraisal and continually develop as necessary to ensure that annual appraisals are carried out in a timely manner and any concerns are followed up.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of OH&S and risk management initiatives and practices in the workplace and timely submission of OH&S and HR reports
- Lead organisational compliance with all existing legal and government requirements including workplace health and safety, anti-discrimination, equal employment opportunity, national employment standards and the Fair Work.
- Conduct competitive market research to establish appropriate pay practices and pay bands that help to recruit and retain superior staff.

**Skills & Experience Required**
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field required.
- A minimum of five years of human resource management experience preferred.
- Skills and experience as required
- 5+ years HR generalist experience, including the ability to work at both strategic and operational levels.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement innovative strategies, policies, processes, tools and systems that support the organisation.
- Remuneration strategy and benchmarking
- Strong understanding of current HR practices and a working knowledge of Australian employment legislation.

To succeed in the role you should be agile and accepting of changing priorities, collaborative and well-organised. You will need to have a positive attitude and share our STRIDE values being
**S**ustainability,
**T**ransparency,
**R**espect,
**I**nnovation,
**D**iscipline and
**E**thics.

This is an incredible opportunity for someone to join us in
**our mission to create opportunities that support a more sustainable future**. In so