Director Employee Relations

You see the big picture, you've always worked on a grand scale, and now you're ready to re-focus on grand impact.

 
Reporting to the Head of People & Culture, you will be an integral part of the P&C Leadership Team. In this role you will be responsible for leading the employee relations strategies, including identification and mitigation of industrial risk.

In this role:

• You will lead and develop major industrial strategies and responses to major issues.
• You will provide guidance and strategies to support effective consultation with employees around workplace reform.
• You will support a collaborative and constructive relationship between Sydney Trains and unions to deliver improvements to rail service reliability and efficiency.
   

Key areas of focus for you in the role include:

• Lead and direct the provision of strategic and specialist employee relations advice.
• Support the delivery of major reform and enterprise projects and initiatives including the identification and mitigation of industrial risk.
• Lead and direct the development and implementation of employee relations strategies, major issues and cases and provide guidance and strategies to support effective engagement and consultation with employees.
• Develop the enterprise agreement approach and strategy, including managing necessary Government approvals, leading negotiations and managing the implementation of the approved enterprise agreement.
   

Please see the role description and Information Pack for more information.  
 

About you
 
You are an experienced employee relations professional looking for an opportunity to contribute to an organisation that is subject to high levels of public scrutiny:

• Ideally you will be tertiary qualified and will have public and private sector experience at a senior leadership level focused on strategic workforce relations.
• You will have deep experience handling highly sensitive and high-profile workforce issues which considers diverse agendas and interests, including government policy; commercial and community requirements: community interests; and political and industrial impacts.
• You possess a deep understanding of the unions, political landscape and industrial implications, within a highly regulated operational workforce
• Advanced advocacy and interpersonal communication skills with an intuitive ability to understand and drive performance, productivity, and engagement via innovative approaches to deliver major infrastructure and structural reform
• You will bring Fair Work experience based around the Commonwealth Employment Framework.
• You will have experience in advising an Executive team across multiple functions
• You will have demonstrated experience building, leading, motivating and setting strategic direction of very accomplished teams.
• You will have a commercial acumen and have experience designing and implementing business strategies, plans, and programs to drive workforce relationships.
• You be adept at engaging at all levels including executive stakeholders conveying solutions to complex matters
• You are an influencer with a strong conceptual and strategic thinking

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you'd like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team's home base location with remote days. 

What are you waiting for…? Connect with us.  Apply now

Applications close: 11:59 pm Monday 8th December 2025.

For more information about this role, please contact  

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