Workforce Planning and Rostering Lead

Royal Flying Doctor Service WA; Cockburn; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite parking

Hybrid work model

NFP salary packaging

Job summary

Royal Flying Doctor Service WA to lead the design and implementation of a workforce planning framework. You will forecast supply against base budgets, anticipate attrition, and align rostering with contractual obligations across a growing team.

Based in Jandakot with flexible hybrid working, you will drive recruitment alignment, onboarding planning, and 24/7 rostering. Strong Excel and Power BI capabilities underpin your analytical decisions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in strategic or operational workforce planning.
• Ability to build and lead a small team in a 24/7 environment.
• Strong modelling and data interpretation skills to support decision making.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the RFDS WA Workforce Planning Framework. Forecast supply against budgeted FTE at each base, anticipate attrition, leave and training impacts, and ensure financially viable allocations.
• Turn forecasts into action by aligning recruitment with future demand and coordinating onboarding planning.
• Lead the rostering function across aeromedical workforces, set standards and timelines, and secure approvals from operational leaders.

Skills

Strategic workforce planning

Operational workforce planning

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Excel modelling

Power BI experience

Education

Tertiary qualifications in HR / business / data analytics

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Competitive salary + NFP salary packaging

• Build RFDS WA’s workforce planning framework from the ground up. You’ll design it, own it and lead it.


• Turn workforce data into decisions that get the right doctors, nurses and pilots to the right base at the right time.


• Lead a small specialist team that’s set to grow, and guide the move to one unified, planned rostering model on Air Maestro.


• Full‑time, permanent role at Jandakot with flexible hybrid working, free onsite parking and not‑for‑profit salary packaging.

About the team

Every aeromedical retrieval depends on a crew being available, rested and trained before the call comes in. Across the largest health jurisdiction in Australia, that takes planning months ahead, not juggling on the day. Reporting to the General Manager, Operations & Performance, you’ll lead a small Workforce Planning & Rostering Team that’s set to grow. You’ll work closely with our Heads of Medical, Nursing and Flying Operations, Talent Acquisition and Data & Analytics. Operations & Performance and People & Culture have already done the groundwork, including a review of aeromedical FTE, so you’ll start with a clear baseline and strong support.

About the role

• Design and implement the RFDS WA Workforce Planning Framework. You’ll forecast supply against budgeted FTE at each base, anticipate attrition, leave and training impacts, and make sure our FTE allocation is financially viable and meets contract obligations, including WACHS Minimum Service Capability.


• Turn forecasts into action. You’ll work with Talent Acquisition and hiring managers to align recruitment with future demand, and with Training Coordinators to plan for the onboarding and orientation that new crew need.


• Lead the team that drafts and coordinates rosters across our aeromedical workforces. You’ll set the standards and timelines, and operational leaders will approve the final rosters.


• Build your team’s planning capability, bring a planning lens to the Air Maestro rollout and create tools and processes that last beyond your involvement.

About you

• A strong track record in strategic or operational workforce planning in a large, complex or multi‑site organisation. You might come from HR, people operations, workforce analytics or capacity planning, ideally in health, aviation, resources, defence, emergency services or another 24/7 environment.


• Advanced Excel modelling and ideally Power BI, with experience building workforce, headcount or capacity models and turning them into clear recommendations for senior leaders.


• Experience leading and developing a small team, with the credibility to influence stakeholders across the business.


• A working knowledge of rostered 24/7 workforces, including Enterprise Agreements, leave, fatigue and training constraints. You don’t need to be a career rosterer, but you’ll understand rosters well enough to lead the team that builds them.


• Tertiary qualifications in human resources, business, data analytics or a related field are an advantage.

About us

The Royal Flying Doctor Service WA (RFDS WA) supports more than 20,000 patients each year across the largest health jurisdiction in Australia. From bases in Perth, Broome, Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie and Meekatharra, our dedicated teams deliver emergency care, primary health and industrial services through world‑class aviation, clinical and support systems. Our strategy focuses on workforce capability, safety leadership and expanding access to care for those who need it most.

This position is open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, with interviews scheduled accordingly. Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.