This is a company where people truly matter. Operating for several decades, they have navigated every business cycle, keeping their people as their key asset. As a privately owned mining organization, they are deeply committed to safe, sustainable operations, prioritizing workforce health and wellbeing, and supporting the communities where they operate. The business employs around 1,000 people, mainly across regional Queensland sites, with a small corporate office in Brisbane.
About the Role
The role of Senior Workforce Advisor plays a pivotal role in enabling performance, supporting leaders, and driving engagement. This is a hands-on, high-trust role where you’ll work closely with leaders - particularly across the corporate office - to ensure people processes run smoothly, efficiently, and with a focus on consistency and employee experience. This role is not about making transformational changes, but on enhancing what the business already has.
Key Responsibilities
Workforce Lifecycle, Recruitment & Onboarding
- Manage end-to-end workforce processes: recruitment, onboarding, offboarding, and remuneration.
- Ensure accurate, consistent, and timely delivery of all HR processes.
- Review and improve workforce policies and procedures.
- Partner with managers to support hiring decisions and onboarding success.
- Assist with remuneration review cycles including data preparation and documentation
- Ensure all remuneration changes are accurately reflected in systems
- Maintain workforce systems and reporting and ensure employee data integrity
- Build strong, trusted relationships with leaders, particularly across the corporate office
- Provide day-to-day guidance on workforce matters and support effective team management
This role would suit someone looking for a professional environment where they support and get involved across a variety of initiatives. This is a standalone role so your experience in small environments and ability to self-start will be of value.
Ideally you are coming from:
- Experience in a corporate environment supporting the employee lifecycle
- Exposure to remuneration reviews, engagement surveys and broader HR initiatives
- A proactive, self-starting approach with the confidence to work independently
- High emotional intelligence and the maturity to self-manage High attention to detail with strong systems and process capability
- A collaborative, positive team player who builds trust easily with stakeholders
This is an opportunity to join a business and use your experience to provide broad support. Lovely office, family friendly and, possible option to do the role 4 days.
For specific questions regarding the role, please contact Geraldine Doyle at gdoyle@thenextstep.com.au or Melissa Forwood at mforwood@thenextstep.com.au