Senior Specialist – Ethics, Compliance & Investigations

Make Your Mark with Thiess

Every day all around the world Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent and reward transparency. We champion diversity inclusion and meaningful career growth.

Join us. Hone your skills and develop new ones. Take on big challenges and grow through mentorship collaboration and empowerment.

Thiess is the place to make things happen.

The Opportunity

This position provides end-to-end oversight of Thiess ethics and conduct framework ensuring investigations reportable conduct matters and employee relations cases are managed consistently lawfully and in line with global standards.

Reporting to the Group Manager Employee and Industrial Relations this role leads the offshore investigation team and partners closely with Executive Leaders Legal Compliance and Reportable Conduct Groups to identify trends mitigate risk and continuously strengthen governance capability and systems.

This is a highly trusted role for a seasoned professional who brings sound judgement credibility and the ability to lead complex and sensitive matters with integrity fairness and professionalism.

About the Role

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Assisting with the establishment of an offshore Investigation Team aimed at ensuring consistent high-quality and timely investigations
• Owning and governing the organisations ethics and conduct case management system including data integrity workflow design reporting and analytics
• Overseeing the intake triage investigation and closure of ethics conduct and ER matters in line with legislative and regulatory requirements
• Acting as a senior escalation point for complex sensitive or high-risk investigations
• Establishing and maintaining global investigation standards frameworks and training programs
• Preparing and presenting insights trends and risk reporting to Executive Leadership Group and Board Committees
• Identifying opportunities to strengthen governance controls automation and investigation capability across the business
• Partnering with Legal HR and Risk & Compliance to ensure best-practice outcomes across jurisdictions

About You

You are an accomplished ethics investigations or employee relations specialist with experience operating in complex highly regulated environments. You are confident engaging with senior and executive stakeholders and bring strong governance analytical and leadership capability.

You will bring:

• A tertiary qualification in Law (highly desirable) Human Resources Employment/Industrial Relations Business Psychology or Behavioural Sciences
• Postgraduate qualifications in Law IR Governance Compliance or Risk (desirable)
• Professional certification such as Certified Workplace Investigator (AWI AHRI or equivalent) (desirable)
• Significant experience in ethics investigations employee relations or compliance within large or global organisations
• Proven expertise in investigation governance reportable conduct frameworks and case management systems
• Experience leading teams including offshore or remote capability models
• Strong understanding of procedural fairness employment legislation and regulatory frameworks
• High-level analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear actionable insights

What Thiess Can Do for You

• Supportive inclusive culture that values innovation and continuous improvement
• Opportunity to work with an amazing team on a high impact project
• Collaborative values-led culture with a global reach.
• Access to leading-edge technology and systems.
• Competitive salary and employee benefits package

About us

Thiess works with clients in Australia Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.

The pioneering spirit of our founders the legendary Thiess brothers is our legacy and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.

At Thiess you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition and developing services to enable sustainable mining.

Were creating a culture of curiosity knowledge-sharing and continuous learning supporting our people to contribute to Thiess success and continued growth in sustainable mining.

Well support you to hone your skills and develop new ones take on challenges and grow through mentorship collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future with a range of programs for people starting their careers.

We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of better together. Were focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe included and empowered.

How to Apply

This is an opportunity to take the next step in your HR career with a global leader in mining services. With our culture of recognition development and purposeful work there is no better time to join Thiess.

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Thiess follows a PreEmployment Process that includes reference checks a National Police Check and a medical assessment. Your recruiter will guide you through each step.

Applications close: Wednesday 27 May 2026

How to apply

Applications close

27 May 2026 E. Australia Standard Time