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

Turner & Townsend; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Sydney is seeking a strategic HR Business Partner to advise business leaders on workforce planning, talent management, employee relations, and organisational development. This role partners closely with leaders to deliver effective HR solutions and drive performance across the region.

You will lead best practices across the employee life cycle, support succession planning, and ensure compliant, proactive HR support with strong stakeholder engagement and communication.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Communication

HR advisory

Education

HR-related degree

Job description

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

Job Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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

Additional Information

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.