HR Business Partner
The HR Business Partner is responsible for implementing and supporting the People Strategy for H&B Defence ensuring alignment of people practices across the joint venture and shareholder entities. Working closely with the Chief People Officer the role enables the delivery of strategic and operational HR plans oversees HR projects and calendar activities and ensures the people elements of the Babcock employee lifecycle are completed with consistency and care.
You will act as a trusted advisor to H&B leadership providing insight on workforce planning talent risks and organisational design while ensuring secondee arrangements are effectively managed and aligned with business goals. The role requires the ability to translate HR strategy into practical guidance for leaders and employees support capability development across the organisation and use data and insights to inform decisionmaking.
You will partner with leaders to resolve employment matters liaise with shareholder HR teams on secondee compensation and progression and lead initiatives that strengthen collaboration engagement and wellbeing across diverse teams. The role also involves interpreting employment legislation and industrial instruments supporting employee and industrial relations matters and applying structured change management methodologies to guide the organisation through transformation.
A commitment to continuous improvement is essential as you will identify and lead opportunities to enhance HR processes and organisational effectiveness. You will actively contribute to a safe working environment model H&B Defence values and promote a culture of accountability respect excellence safety and care for one another. The role also supports Trade Control compliance by embedding bestpractice behaviours and ensuring obligations are understood and met. Some intrastate interstate and overseas travel may be required.
You bring strong experience in interpreting legislation Awards industrial agreements and organisational policy to provide pragmatic highquality HR advice. Your background includes supporting leaders through performance conduct and grievance matters and you are confident navigating complex stakeholder environments with professionalism and emotional intelligence. You have a solid understanding of the broader HR functional areas supported by strong analytical research and problemsolving capability.
Your communication and consulting skills enable you to build trusted relationships at all levels and your organisational skills allow you to balance competing priorities while maintaining attention to detail. You model the values and commitments of H&B Defence demonstrating integrity respect accountability safety excellence and care in every interaction.
Experience in joint ventures alliances or similarly complex environments is highly regarded as is experience designing HR frameworks conducting workplace investigations or working with unions. Above all you are motivated by contributing to a missionfocused organisation and supporting people to perform at their best in a hightrust highstandards environment.
Your future at Babcock what we offer you
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Who we are Babcock International Group the aerospace and defence company has been trusted to deliver bespoke highly skilled engineering services for over a century.
Across Australia and New Zealand Babcock has grown to a team of over 1500 talented people and we are on a path of continued growth and expansion. We operate across sectors such as defence commercial marine aviation airports communications emergency services and engineering consultancy.
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We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds and experience however due to the defence orientation of this role the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain an appropriate level of Commonwealth Personnel Security Clearance as defined in the AGSVA guidelines.
Please note should your application progress you may be required to complete pre-employment checks. These checks may include but not limited to reference checks police check security check qualifications and right to work.
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