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About the Role
Drive Snowy Hydro’s enterprise strategy for employee and industrial relations, translating business strategy, employment obligations, and workforce risks into practical operational frameworks, successful bargaining outcomes, and defensible employment decisions.
Responsibilities
- Set Snowy Hydro’s enterprise approach to employee and industrial relations, including bargaining strategy, union engagement and the resolution of significant industrial matters.
- Lead the development and ongoing improvement of employment policies, standards, frameworks and decision tools that support our business strategy, values and obligations.
- Lead complex and high risk employee relations matters and investigations, providing sound advice and guiding fair, consistent and defensible outcomes in partnership with Legal.
- Build the capability of leaders and People and Culture teams to manage routine matters confidently, while providing appropriate oversight and first line assurance.
- Provide clear advice and risk reporting to executives and the Board, and contribute to managing employment, industrial and organisational risks.
- Support business strategy and enterprise wide transformation initiatives by identifying workforce implications and helping leaders manage change in a fair and practical way.
- Contribute to a safe and respectful workplace by integrating psychosocial risk considerations into employment frameworks and advice.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in Australian employment and industrial relations law, enterprise agreements, modern awards, and dispute processes.
- Proven senior experience managing enterprise wide employee and industrial relations strategies in a diverse operational environment.
- A commercial mindset that integrates people, operational, cultural and reputational considerations.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to navigate difficult conversations and high-pressure situations.
- High integrity, discretion and robust decision-making.
- Proven ability to build and sustain effective working relationships across diverse stakeholder environments, driving collaborative outcomes.
Skills
- Employee and Industrial Relations
- Bargaining Strategy
- Union Engagement
- Employment Policy Development
- Investigation
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Negotiation
- Influencing
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Cooma
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior experience
Education Level
- Relevant tertiary qualification in human resources, industrial relations, employment law, or a related discipline (Desirable)
Benefits
- Annual performance based bonus
- 30 weeks paid leave for primary carers
- 10 weeks paid leave for non-primary carers
- Additional leave over and above the minimum National Employment Standards
- Family discounts on fitness, gyms, pools and leisure centres (location dependant)
- Service Award Program
- Employee referral plan
- Corporate clothing allowance
- Relocation packages
About the Company
- Snowy Hydro is a dynamic, integrated energy business that has been providing on-demand, reliable energy to Australia for generations.
- Snowy Hydro owns and operates a powerful combination of generation assets, including the mighty Snowy Mountains Scheme, gas and diesel plants, and contracted wind and solar energy.
- We also provide electricity and gas to about 1.6 million retail customers through our retail brands Red Energy and Lumo Energy.
Equal Opportunity
- Snowy Hydro has a culture of decency and inclusion, with a commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people and a supportive environment to ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can succeed.
- At Snowy Hydro, we recognise that we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each individual brings, and we believe in providing an environment that allows that uniqueness to thrive.
- Snowy Hydro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.
- We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.