Senior HR Business Partner

Job no: 497815

Work type: Maximum Term Full Time

Location: Hobart

Categories: Human Resources

• Work in renewable energy industry as a trusted source of information for your stakeholders
• Bring your passion for people to life in delivering great HR solutions
• Tailored flexible arrangements to suit your lifestyle.

Salary range $135,000 to $157,000 plus super

With the help of over 30,000 people over 100 years, we have built, maintained, and refurbished hydropower infrastructure across Tasmania. We're fuelling the future of energy with the power of the past, and we need skilled and reliable people to join us to actively champion and embed core people programs and initiatives into business areas across Hydro.

We support applications from all members of our community for equitable access to our employment opportunities. We are open to discussing workplace flexibility in all our vacancies, to ensure we can attract the best candidates and accommodate individual needs, differences, disabilities and working arrangements, even in ways we have not thought of. Our merit-based recruitment practices are founded on building diversity by fostering an inclusive, flexible and equitable workplace. For more information about Hydro Tasmania please visit our website

Who are you?

Your extensive experience in HR along with a strong collaborative and strategic focus will set you up for success in this role. Your experience will also include:

• Working as a senior HR practitioner with abilities to implement, advice, develop and maintain and evaluate HR practices
• Job design and evaluation, ideally using the Mercer CED framework
• Strong relationship building and stakeholder engagement skills including with external parties such as tribunals, advocacy groups and unions
• Strong abilities to work collaboratively within your team as well as across the business with demonstrated capabilities to align with agreed team behaviours
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presenting information and facilitating sessions for large and diverse groups of employees and leaders.

You will also have a tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g. Commerce, Human Resources, Law). Excellent written and verbal communication skills with capabilities in presenting

Even if you don't meet these criteria 100%, we still want to hear from you

About the role:

To put it simply, you will be responsible for providing professional generalist Human Resources advice and influence at a senior level. You will be coaching and providing advice to managers and employees in designated business units and across the business to facilitate and enhance employee experience. The role will require you to also lead People and Capability projects and initiatives.

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you will be…

✓ Managing the people aspects of any restructures including organisation design, redeployment and redundancy are completed within timescales and budgets.

✓ Working collaboratively with functional areas to solve people challenges and provide effective solutions to business units and support the proactive application of the People & Capability function deliverables across the Hydro Tasmania business.

✓ Regularly reviewing People and Capability's policies and processes to ensure consistency of information and compliance with relevant legislation.

✓ Supporting the translation of business strategy to people strategies that effectively contribute to the performance of the business unit.

✓ Actively champion and embed core people programs and initiatives into business areas.

This position is for a 12-month, fixed-term contract. More information can be found on the attached Position Description: PE-PCA - Senior HR Business Partner May

Haven't convinced you yet?

In addition to a competitive remuneration package, this role offers the unique advantage of being directly involved in contributing to key customer-focussed support for Hydro Tasmania. We value flexibility and understand this means different things to different people, so we are open to discussing what this looks like for you. We offer a range of employee perks and often have something for everyone, including generous parental leave, electricity discounts and un-debited sick leave. At Hydro Tasmania we also strongly support career development opportunities, and while this can look different for everyone as well, we will work with you to support the pathways at Hydro Tasmania you want to explore

As an endorsed employer for women, we have benefits and policies on our Work180 page – check it out here:

Let's get applying

Attach your resume and cover letter addressing your experience as well as the following 2 questions as below, while keeping your cover letter to 750 words or less before 10am, Wednesday 1st October.

• Share a time you aligned an HR initiative with a business goal? What was the outcome? We are looking for examples of where you have been able to integrate HR strategies with organisational objectives.

• What is your view on the recent announcements regarding a ban on non-compete clauses, and what information helped you form that conclusion? How do you think this might impact Hydro Tasmania group if the ban went ahead?

We will be running an agile recruitment process and will engage with suitable candidates as soon we have reviewed their applications.

Recruitment agencies: we respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.

Advertised: 19 Sep 2025 Tasmania Standard Time

Applications close: 01 Oct 2025 Tasmania Standard Time