Impactful HR Manager (Fixed-Term, Te Awamutu)

Waipā Networks; Te Awamutu; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Waipā Networks seeks an experienced HR Manager to cover a fixed-term period supporting a broad people portfolio in Te Awamutu. Immediate start preferred, with a fixed-term to 31 March 2027.

You’ll handle complex employee relations, provide day-to-day advice, and drive HR projects in a community-owned utilities context. You’ll work across leadership teams, assuring compliant policies, effective processes, and a pragmatic, independent approach.

Qualifications

• Significant HR generalist experience, including at HR management or senior business partnering level.
• Experience managing complex employee relations matters.
• Strong industrial relations experience, ideally gained within a unionised environment.
• Sound knowledge of New Zealand employment legislation and HR practice.
• Confidence coaching and advising leaders at all levels.
• Experience supporting and developing HR practitioners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and turn them into practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Providing advice and support to leaders across a wide range of employment and people matters
• Managing complex employee relations matters, including performance, workplace investigations and disciplinary processes
• Supporting industrial relations activity and working within a unionised environment
• Advising on employment agreements, policies, leave, remuneration and employment legislation
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding and other employee lifecycle activities as required
• Managing annual people processes, including performance and remuneration reviews, workforce planning and culture surveys
• Providing day-to-day coaching, guidance and support to our HR Advisor
• Contributing to organisational change, HR projects and process improvements
• Developing and maintaining practical people policies, procedures, systems and documentation
• Using workforce data and insights to support sound decision-making.

Skills

HR generalist

Industrial relations

NZ employment law

Leadership coaching

HR practitioner development

Job description

Waipā Networks seeks an experienced HR Manager to cover a fixed-term period supporting a broad people portfolio in Te Awamutu. Immediate start preferred, with a fixed-term to 31 March 2027.

You’ll handle complex employee relations, provide day-to-day advice, and drive HR projects in a community-owned utilities context. You’ll work across leadership teams, assuring compliant policies, effective processes, and a pragmatic, independent approach.