Talent Acquisition Advisor - Leading Australian Manufacturer - 4 day week
A privately owned Australian electronics manufacturer based in Winston Hills, designing and building electronic products locally rather than importing off-the-shelf.
That local capability is a genuine edge.
It underpins their defence industry accreditations and their credibility with the specialised clients they supply.
The business is growing and hiring has become business-critical as they scale into the US.
They're pivoting from a consultant model to build their recruitment function in-house for the first time, inside a small and strategic People & Culture team.
The chance
You'll own talent acquisition as the first dedicated in-house hire in this space, building the function from the ground up.
The focus is low volume, high complexity hiring into niche engineering and defence-adjacent roles.
These are specialist, hard-to-fill searches that need a genuine partner, not a job-board approach.
You'll work closely with hiring managers who can trust you to run a complex brief end to end, and you'll help scale the hiring approach as the business grows into the US.
Importantly, this is a genuine part-time opportunity, structured at 0.8 FTE.
A real part-time role at this level is rare, and this is a genuinely flexible offer, not a scaled‐back version of a full-time job.
What you'll do
Own the full recruitment lifecycle for niche engineering, technical, and defence‐adjacent roles
Partner directly with hiring managers on complex,



hard-to-fill briefs
Build in‐house recruitment processes and ways of working from scratch, replacing the previous consultant‐led model
Balance a low‐volume, high‐complexity workload where quality of hire matters far more than throughput
Contribute to scaling the talent approach as the business expands into the US market
What you'll bring
Proven in‐house or agency recruitment experience, ideally with exposure to technical, engineering, or specialist/niche hiring (strong generalist TA backgrounds with the right stability and adaptability will also be considered)
Comfort operating autonomously in a standalone role, without a large TA team around you
Strong stakeholder management skills, since much of this role is partnering with hiring managers and getting the brief right
A quality‐over‐quantity mindset suited to complex, low‐volume searches rather than high‐throughput recruiting
Tenure and stability in your track record
What's on offer
Genuine part‐time role structured at 0.8 FTE, with flexibility to revisit hours down the track if it suits both sides.
A real part‐time arrangement at this level is rare
A newly created, permanent, standalone position with full autonomy to shape it
Three days a week in office in Winston Hills
Involvement in a growing business as it scales into the US
A small, collaborative P&C; team where your work has direct impact and visibility
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📌 Talent Acquisition Advisor - Leading Australian Manufacturer - 4 Day Week (Sydney)
🏢 ReillyScott
📍 Sydney