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.

Do you have a strong background in Human Resource operations, recruitment and system administration? We are looking for a permanent full time People Operations and Talent Aquisition Partner to join our team in Balmain, NSW. This role will allow you to work alongside our People, Industrial Relations and Legal teams to ensure our people processes are efficient, engaging and aligned with creating a positive employee experience.

What You Can Look Forward To

If you are looking for your next opportunity to work in a supportive and flexible team environment, then Svitzer is the place for you! We are an energetic and positive team that are passionate about our contribution to making Svitzer a great place to work where our employees can thrive.

In addition, in this role you will have access to;

• Onsite working in our office in Balmain with daily catered lunch and on-site parking

• Flexibility to set your own schedule to support work life balance including hybrid working options available

• Opportunity to work with a wide variety of stakeholders across the East Coast of Australia

• Opportunities to travel across Australia to represent Svitzer in a variety of community events, recruitment campaigns, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and other development opportunities

What You Will Do

Your key responsibilities in this position will include:

• Lead recruitment processes and all activities associated with recruitment including sourcing, advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, due diligence, medicals, salary proposals and contract generation.

• Provide advice to leaders and employees on activities relating to the employee lifecycle and support end to end HR processes including recruitment, systems, onboarding, engagement, DEI, training and development, and offboarding.

• Lead HRIS support and maintenance including new hires, leavers, changes, ensuring data quality is of the highest standard.

• Maintain progress trackers relating to recruitment, onboarding and offboarding activities.

• Reporting and analysis of data from both HR and Payroll systems as required.

• Maintenance of HR and Recruitment mail inboxes

• Sonic Health Account Manager

• Support the People and Culture Business Partners with projects as required

What You Will Need to Thrive in this Position

To be successful in this position, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Experience in a similar HR operations position, including implementing best-practice recruitment and selection.

• Tertiary qualifications in human resources, employee relations or a related discipline will be highly regarded.

• HRIS skills and proficiency, particularly in Workday, will be highly regarded.

• Excellent people skills and the ability to develop relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.

• Ability to work autonomously, demonstrating a strong degree of initiative and confidence to make decisions.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence change and successfully negotiate agreed outcomes.

• 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!

How to Apply

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