About the role
About BMD
BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business, with foundations built on the family values that underpin our unique, collaborative approach. Driven by a purpose of powering futures and creating enduring legacies through a commitment to collaboration, BMD is delivering infrastructure solutions that connect and transform communities. With a proud history beginning in 1979, BMD now employs 2,400 people throughout Australia, the Philippines and United Kingdom.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced People & Culture Manager to take a senior P&C role supporting a major infrastructure opportunity in Adelaide. The project involves a broad multidisciplinary construction program encompassing significant industrial and manufacturing facilities, workshops, civil and supporting infrastructure, together with associated marine works. Delivering a project of this complexity requires a capable, diverse and highly engaged workforce. You will partner with project leadership to establish the people environment needed to support delivery as the workforce develops.
Your role will include
- Partnering with project leadership on workforce strategy and planning
- Supporting workforce mobilisation and growth
- Providing practical employee relations and people advice
- Coaching senior and frontline leaders
- Supporting workforce engagement, retention and culture
- Partnering with Talent Acquisition on workforce requirements
- Managing complex employee and organisational matters
- Identifying workforce risks, trends and emerging requirements
- Helping establish a strong and consistent employee experience across the project
About You
You will bring:
- Senior People & Culture/HR experience within Australian construction, infrastructure, engineering or major projects
- Experience supporting large, multidisciplinary and operational workforces
- Strong understanding of Australian employment relations and workplace legislation
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior construction and project leaders
- Experience across workforce planning, employee relations, performance and engagement
- Experience supporting project mobilisation or significant workforce growth
- Strong capability managing complex employee relations matters
- Experience working with both professional and site-based workforces
- A commercially minded and pragmatic approach to P&C
- Strong coaching, stakeholder management and influencing capability
Highly regarded:
- Tier 1 construction or major infrastructure experience
- Experience in complex industrial relations environments
- Major project workforce mobilisation and ramp-up experience
Diversity and inclusion
We recognise that we are strengthened by diversity, and we embrace differences as an equal opportunity employer providing a flexible and inclusive workplace.
So, join our team, be yourself and help us power futures and create legacies.
We’re a purpose and values-led business guided by our values of family, empowered, collaborative and driven. For further details on what makes BMD unique, head to https://www.bmdgroup.global/careers