Human Resources Business Partner (12-Month Fixed-Term Contract)

Turner & Townsend Pty Limited; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role sits in the Business Support department and involves delivering workforce planning, talent management, employee relations, and organisational development across the region.

The HRBP will coordinate HR solutions, advise on strategic and operational matters, develop relationships across the business, support succession planning, and lead end-to-end employee life cycle initiatives

Qualifications

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, consultation, and communication skills
• Proactive, practical mindset with strong problem-solving abilities
• Strong HR knowledge including employment legislation and best practices

Responsibilities

• Coordinating, developing, and implementing HR solutions that address key workforce challenges
• Shaping strategic and operational HR advice to meet business needs
• Proactively developing and sustaining relationships across the business to identify opportunities and challenges
• Supporting business units with succession planning
• Developing and leading best practice across the end-to-end employee life cycle
• Policy development and documentation
• Reward and recognition strategies
• Driving retention strategies through strategic HR business partnering
• Ensuring appropriate communication at all levels
• Leading and guiding managers in resolving performance and employee relations matters

Job description

Human Resources Business Partner (12-Month Fixed-Term Contract)

• Full-time
• Department: Business support

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 62 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) acts as a strategic advisor to business leaders, driving people‑focused initiatives that enable organisational performance, workforce capability, and a high‑quality employee experience. This role partners closely with leaders to deliver effective workforce planning, talent management, employee relations, and organisational development.

Lead, manage, and promote people management practices to achieve success through excellent stakeholder relationships and continuous service improvement activities for the region, including but not limited to:

• Coordinating, developing, and implementing HR solutions that address key workforce challenges.
• Using HR knowledge to shape both strategic and operational advice to meet business needs.
• Proactively developing and sustaining relationships across the business to ensure a comprehensive understanding of opportunities and challenges, and identifying people management development opportunities.
• Supporting business units with succession planning.
• Developing and leading best practice across the end‑to‑end employee life cycle.
• Policy development and documentation.
• Reward and recognition strategies.
• Driving retention strategies through strategic human resources business partnering.
• Ensuring appropriate communication at all levels.
• Leading and guiding managers in the resolution of performance and employee relations matters.

• Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Business, or a related field
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in an equivalent HR Business Partner or generalist role
• Strong knowledge of Australian employment legislation, modern awards, enterprise agreement workings and HR best practices
• Demonstrated experience in supporting leaders through employee relations and performance matters together with knowledge of our external regulatory environment
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, consultation, and communication skills
• A proactive, practical mindset with strong problem-solving abilities

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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