HR Advisor

CAVBUS Group Logan Coaches; Logan City; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

CAVBUS Group Logan Coaches is seeking an experienced HR Advisor to own day-to-day HR across a growing workforce in South East Queensland. You will work closely with managers, depot teams and employees, providing practical HR advice and managing employee relations matters in a busy operational environment.

You’ll report to the General Manager with autonomy to shape the HR function, supported by established policies, WHS framework and BrightHR.

Qualifications

• Proven experience handling employee relations end-to-end.
• Sound knowledge of Fair Work Act, NES and awards is required.
• Ability to work autonomously with sound judgement.
• Strong stakeholder engagement from frontline to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Providing practical HR and employee relations advice to managers and leaders.
• Managing ER matters including performance, conduct, grievances, investigations and discipline.
• Supporting managers through complex people matters.
• Coordinating recruitment across roles including drivers.
• Onboarding, documentation and employee changes.
• Reviewing HR policies, contracts and position descriptions.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and policies.
• Maintaining accurate HR records in BrightHR.
• Collaborating with WHS partner and depot teams.
• Building trust with drivers and being an approachable presence across depots.

Skills

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Autonomy

Communication

People management

Education

HR qualification

Tools

BrightHR

Job description

A hands-on HR role where your judgement, relationships and ability to get things done really matter.

CAVBUS Group is a family-owned passenger transport business operating across multiple locations in South East Queensland.

We're looking for an experienced HR Advisor to take ownership of the day-to-day HR function across our growing workforce. This is not a role where you'll spend your days sitting behind a desk writing policies - you'll be working closely with managers, depot teams and employees, providing practical HR advice, managing employee relations matters, supporting recruitment and helping keep our people practices compliant, consistent and workable in a busy operational environment.

You’ll report to the General Manager, with genuine scope to own and shape the HR function. A solid foundation is already in place - HR policies, a WHS management system, onboarding processes and BrightHR are all established - so this isn't a build-from-scratch role. What it does need is someone who can operate with real autonomy, use sound judgement in situations that aren't always straightforward, and keep that foundation moving forward rather than just maintaining it.

HR Advisor

CAVBUS Group - Logan Coaches Logan Village, QLD | Full Time

What you'll be doing

• Providing practical HR and employee relations advice to managers and leaders

• Managing ER matters including performance, conduct, grievances, investigations, disciplinary processes and terminations

• Supporting managers through complex or sensitive people matters

• Managing recruitment across operational and corporate roles, including driver recruitment

• Coordinating onboarding, employment documentation and employee changes

• Reviewing and maintaining HR policies, procedures, employment contracts and position descriptions

• Supporting compliance with the Fair Work Act, National Employment Standards, Modern Awards and company policies

• Maintaining accurate HR records within BrightHR

• Work closely with the WHS Partner

• Building genuine trust and rapport with our driver workforce, and being a visible, approachable presence across our depots - not just an office-based function

What you'll need (must-haves)

• Demonstrated experience managing employee relations matters end-to-end - conduct, performance, grievances and disciplinary processes

• Solid working knowledge of the Fair Work Act, NES and Modern Awards

• Confidence working autonomously and using sound professional judgement

• Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable talking to frontline supervisors through to senior leaders

• A genuine ability to build trust and rapport with a driver workforce - someone who gets out from behind the desk, spends time at the depots, and earns credibility with frontline staff rather than being seen as 'management' only

• Resilience and backbone - the confidence to hold a professional line on standards and process, raise difficult issues directly, and not be talked out of a position that's right just because it's uncomfortable

• The ability to operate with real autonomy and sound judgement, including in situations that are ambiguous or politically sensitive

• Recruitment and selection experience

• Strong written communication and documentation skills

What would be great to have (nice-to-haves)

• Experience with a blue-collar, transport, logistics or similarly operational workforce

• WHS, injury management or return-to-work experience

• Experience with BrightHR or a similar HRIS

• A relevant HR qualification

• AHRI (Australian HR Institute) membership

Why join CAVBUS Group?

This is an opportunity to build genuine ownership of a broad HR function while staying close to the people and operations you support. You'll work directly with senior management, with the autonomy to manage your own portfolio and continue strengthening the people systems already in place.

We're a family-owned business where relationships matter. Our workforce includes drivers, workshop employees, administration teams and operational leaders across multiple locations - and we want an HR professional who enjoys working with people from all walks of life, and who understands that trust with a driver workforce is earned through consistency, visibility and follow-through, not policy alone.

If you enjoy hands-on ER, operational HR, recruitment and building trusted relationships, we'd like to hear from you.