People & Culture Manager

Milsons Point, NSW, AU, 2061

**About John Holland**:
At John Holland, our purpose is simple, we transform lives with everything we do. We've always known at its heart infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work.

That's our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way. Be part of a team that thrives on rising to the challenge of transforming lives for good.

**About The Project**:
John Holland, Stantec and KBR are partnering with Sydney Water in an Alliance to deliver the North-West Treatment Hub - a brownfield treatment program that will commence with a $500 million upgrade of Rouse Hill and Riverstone wastewater treatment facilities. The project will achieve circular economy outcomes, increasing recycled water production, improving the quality of wastewater byproducts for reuse, and leveraging innovative treatment technologies that reduce carbon footprint. Upgrades will support the treatment of a further 45 megalitres of wastewater each day, to cater for growing northwest communities. The Project will deliver a new state-of-the-art biosolids facility at Riverstone, with new technology to improve the quality of wastewater byproducts.

**About The Role**:
This role will provide strategic and operational support to the Alliance Management team and specifically the NWTH project, which will include providing leadership and guidance relating to all human resource matters such as recruitment, training and development, performance management industrial relations, payroll, and other HR matters.

This role will also lead the development and implementation of the people strategy on the project, establishing and embedding of policies. this role will be based in our Milsons Point office with the project sites being based in Rouse Hill and Riverstone NSW.

**Accountabilities will include but not limited to**:

- Contribute to the development of human resource strategies, policies and procedures
- Develop project HR plans to achieve the objectives set out in the JHG business framework
- Support senior management in the development of business plans in alignment with group initiatives
- Develop and implement a framework for ensuring that the project teams has a culture of high performance
- Support the project management team and projects by managing key HR deliverables including succession planning, employee engagement, diversity and performance management
- Provide functional management in the areas of redundancy, termination and remuneration
- Support line managers as required through the resourcing process
- Support compliance and governance processes and practices
- Management of Aboriginal Engagement
- Ensure provision of required new business documentation and support for tenders
- Develop and implement appropriate employee engagement plans
- Assist in the development of appropriate policies and procedures
- Manage the mobilisation and demobilisation of projects and the utilisation of project operational resources
- Promote continual professional development and facilitating succession planning
- Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, systems and procedures.

**What’s in it for you**:
We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

**We offer**:

- Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
- Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.
- Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
- Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
- Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong - that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
- Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Wheth