HR Consultant

Alcoa; Huntly; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Alcoa as a Human Resources Consultant at our Mining Operations, where you'll shape the future of sustainability through effective HR practices. This role offers career development opportunities, a family-friendly schedule with a monthly leisure day, and a robust parental leave scheme.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Monthly Leisure Day

Performance-related bonus

16 weeks paid parental leave

Social and diversity-focused engagement opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Human Resources or Employee Relations.
• Knowledge of performance management and HR systems.
• Experience in heavy industry or with a unionized workforce is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Ensure optimal efficiency in HR policies and processes.
• Provide HR advice to site leadership team.
• Develop employee relations training and initiatives.

Skills

Employee Relations

Legislative Compliance

Performance Management

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Tertiary qualifications in HR, Business, or Commercial

Job description

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At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

At Alcoa, you’re an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low carbon technologies. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the Role:

As the Human Resources Consultant at our Mining Operations, you will have extensive experience working on a mine site without extended time away from family and friends. This position reports directly to the Human Resources Manager and offers a family-friendly Monday to Friday roster with a flexi day off every 4 weeks, allowing you more time for personal pursuits.

Working as part of a small, highly experienced team, you will ensure optimal efficiency in HR policies and processes, and be accountable for employee relations, behaviour mentoring, and management coaching. You will also provide essential HR advice to the site leadership team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Participating in projects to improve employee engagement, develop succession plans, and support corporate initiatives.
• Providing HR support and advice to line and functional leaders on ethical and legislative compliance, performance management, compensation, and HR systems.
• Reviewing and implementing Alcoa standards and processes, including policy review and change management.
• Developing recommendations for policy and process improvements to maintain best practices.
• Maintaining expert knowledge of current and proposed legislation and changes.
• Advising, coaching, and assisting senior management on employee relations matters.
• Developing and delivering employee relations training to all organizational levels, focusing on improving relations and proactive approaches.

What’s on offer:

• Career development opportunities aligned with your passions.
• Monthly Leisure Day.
• Performance-related bonus (variable).
• 16 weeks paid parental leave scheme.
• Social and diversity-focused engagement opportunities.

What you can bring to the role:

• Tertiary qualifications in HR, Business, Commercial, or similar, or proven equivalent industry experience in a heavy industrial environment.
• Significant experience in Human Resources or Employee Relations, with knowledge of legislative compliance, performance management, and HR systems.
• Experience working with a unionized workforce, or in heavy industry or resources sector, is advantageous.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build and sustain relationships with the site team and internal stakeholders.

Additional Information

• Interviews may occur before the closing date; all applications will be considered.
• You will only be contacted if shortlisted for an interview, which may take up to four weeks from the closing date.