Connect Search and Selection – Brisbane QLD

An opportunity has become available for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join a large, complex mining operation in a highly visible site-based leadership role.

Working a 5/2/4/3 roster and FIFO from Brisbane, you will act as the primary HR advisor to operational and functional leaders, supporting a workforce of approximately 500 employees.

As a key member of the Site Senior Leadership Team, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, partnering closely with leaders across production, maintenance, technical services and broader site functions.

This is not a desk-based HR role.

You will be visible across the operation, building relationships with leaders and employees and ensuring people initiatives translate into practical outcomes on site.

- Brisbane-based FIFO

- 5/2/4/3 Roster

- Senior Site Role

The Opportunity

An opportunity has become available for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join a large, complex mining operation in a highly visible site-based leadership role.

Working a 5/2/4/3 roster and FIFO from Brisbane, you will act as the primary HR advisor to operational and functional leaders, supporting a workforce of approximately 500 employees.

As a key member of the Site Senior Leadership Team, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, partnering closely with leaders across production, maintenance, technical services and broader site functions.

This is not a desk-based HR role.

You will be visible across the operation,



building relationships with leaders and employees and ensuring people initiatives translate into practical outcomes on site.

The Role

Reporting through the broader People function, your responsibilities will include:

- Partnering with senior operational leaders to deliver people strategies aligned with site and business objectives

- Providing practical and commercially focused advice across complex employee and industrial relations matters

- Coaching and developing leaders to improve people leadership capability and accountability

- Supporting workforce planning, succession and organisational capability initiatives

- Managing performance, conduct, grievances and workplace investigations

- Interpreting and applying Enterprise Agreements, Awards, policies and relevant employment legislation

- Supporting organisational change and workforce transformation initiatives

- Identifying people trends and risks and developing practical solutions

- Driving engagement, culture and retention initiatives across the site

- Partnering with specialist HR teams and shared services to deliver broader people programs

- Contributing as an active member of the Site Senior Leadership Team

About You





You will be an experienced HR Business Partner or senior HR practitioner who is comfortable operating in a large, complex and operational environment.

Ideally, you will bring:

- Significant generalist HR business partnering experience

- Experience within mining, resources, heavy industry, construction or another complex operational environment

- Solid employee and industrial relations capability

- Demonstrated experience interpreting Enterprise Agreements and Awards

- Experience managing complex performance, grievance and investigation matters

- The confidence to coach and challenge senior operational leaders

- Solid stakeholder management and influencing skills

- A practical, commercially focused approach to HR

- The ability to work autonomously while remaining connected to a broader HR function

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Business or a related discipline

Previous experience working in a site-based or FIFO environment will be highly regarded.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to take genuine ownership of the people agenda across a significant mining operation.

You will join an established organisation with access to broader HR expertise, specialist capability and shared services, while retaining the autonomy to lead and influence HR outcomes at site level.

For an experienced HR professional who enjoys being close to the operation, partnering with leaders and seeing the tangible impact of their work, this is a genuinely interesting senior business partnering opportunity.

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📌 Senior HR Business Partner (Queensland)
🏢 Connect Search and Selection
📍 Queensland