About Us

As a leading global towage provider, Svitzer provides a crucial link in the Australian and Papua New Guinean supply chain. When you join us at Svitzer, you’ll be part of a team of professional and dedicated people who work together every day to provide our customers with safe, reliable, and efficient marine services in ports and terminals across Australia and Papua New Guinea. At Svitzer, safety comes first.

We are seeking a People Operations & Talent Acquisition Partner to join our team in Balmain, NSW. This is a permanent, full-time position ideal for someone with a strong background in HR operations, recruitment, and system administration.

If you take pride in managing detailed processes and being a reliable support to the People & Culture team, this is the opportunity for you! You’ll play a key part in ensuring the efficiency of HR processes, while creating a positive experience for both candidates and employees.

What You Can Look Forward To

Join a friendly, collaborative team that values flexibility and a positive attitude. If you're someone who loves the structure and rhythm of HR administration while also looking for opportunities to shape the future of our employees, this hybrid role is your chance to shine.

Here’s what we offer:

Hybrid work options to balance office and remote work, along with daily catered lunches and free on-site parking when you're in the Balmain office.
Get involved in diverse HR projects and initiatives while handling the day-to-day transactional HR tasks.
Opportunities to travel across Australia for community engagement, recruitment campaigns, and other exciting initiatives.
Be part of a team that encourages continuous learning and professional development.

What You Will Do

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

Oversee the full internal recruitment process, including preparing position descriptions, posting job ads, shortlisting, interviewing, coordinating medicals, preparing salary proposals, and drafting employment contracts.
Advise leaders and employees on all aspects of the employee lifecycle, supporting recruitment, systems, onboarding, engagement, diversity and inclusion, training, development, and offboarding.
Ensure accurate HRIS administration, ensuring data accuracy for new hires, leavers, and internal changes.
Maintain progress trackers relating to recruitment, onboarding and offboarding activities.
Generating reports and analyse data from HR and Payroll systems to provide insights and support decision-making.
Manage the HR and Recruitment shared inboxes, ensuring timely and professional responses.
Serve as the Account Manager for Sonic Health, overseeing related processes.
Collaborate with People and Culture Business Partners on various HR projects and initiatives.

What You Will Need to Succeed

To thrive in this role, you should demonstrate:

Proven experience in HR operations or recruitment, specifically in handling transactional tasks such as onboarding, offboarding, and employee data management.
Tertiary qualifications in human resources, employee relations or a related discipline are highly regarded.
Proficiency in HRIS systems, especially Workday, is highly regarded for ensuring accurate data entry, reporting, and system maintenance.
Excellent people skills and the ability to develop relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
Self-motivated and autonomous, you should demonstrate initiative in your role, confidently making decisions and solving problems as they arise.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are essential to influence change, negotiate effectively, and articulate ideas clearly to stakeholders.
Desire and ability to achieve objectives and deliver results with a long-term and strategic focus.
Ability to collect and analyse data, identify trends and make recommendations for continuous improvement.
Flexibility to travel to our operations as required.

Building a Diverse Workplace

In Svitzer we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that members from some under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every single qualification. At Svitzer we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, and we are excited about hearing from you!

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