About Them

This is a fast-growing Australian business operating across a practical, trade-based workplace. With continued growth and investment underway, the business is entering an important period of expansion and needs an experienced HR generalist who can come in, quickly understand the operation and provide hands-on people support where it is needed most.

This is not a highly corporate environment. The workforce includes a significant number of trades and operational employees, so success will come from being visible, approachable and comfortable meeting people where they are, while bringing the structure and HR capability needed to support a growing business.

About the Role

Growth has created a significant hiring requirement across the business, particularly within trades and operational roles. You will take ownership of recruitment from end to end, working closely with managers to understand what they need, getting into market and keeping recruitment moving at pace.
Alongside recruitment, you will be the go-to person for day-to-day HR matters across the employee lifecycle. This could include onboarding, contracts and documentation, employee relations, performance matters, policy and process, manager advice and general people support.

It is a broad role where you will need to be equally comfortable talking with a tradesperson on site, working through a people issue with a manager and then getting back to your desk to progress a pipeline of vacancies.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Managing recruitment across trades, operational and corporate roles
- Proactively sourcing candidates and building talent pipelines in challenging markets
- Partnering with hiring managers to define requirements and drive recruitment processes
- Managing offers, contracts, onboarding and associated employee documentation
- Providing practical advice to managers on day-to-day HR and employee relations matters




- Supporting performance management and other employee lifecycle activities
- Reviewing and improving HR processes as the business continues to grow
- Providing responsive, pragmatic HR support across the organisation

About You

You will be a capable HR generalist who enjoys being close to the business and is happy to roll up your sleeves.

Importantly, you will have strong recruitment capability. You know how to find people rather than simply advertise and wait, and you are comfortable managing multiple vacancies and competing priorities at once.

Experience within trades, engineering, construction, infrastructure, manufacturing, industrial services or another operational environment would be particularly valuable. Just as importantly, you will understand how to adapt your style to your audience.

You don't need layers of process around you to operate effectively. You are comfortable working autonomously, using judgement and creating structure where it is needed.

You will ideally bring:

- Broad HR generalist experience across the employee lifecycle
- Strong end-to-end recruitment and proactive sourcing capability
- Experience recruiting trades and/or operational workforces
- Confidence working in a standalone or highly autonomous HR role
- Sound employee relations knowledge and practical judgement
- A down-to-earth, adaptable communication style
- The ability to work at pace in a growing and changing environment

About Applying At The Next Step, we embrace individuality and differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background, disability, faith and sexual orientation. We strive to provide a recruitment experience that’s fair, inclusive and accessible. We encourage all suitable applicants to apply for this role.

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For a confidential discussion, please contact Geraldine Doyle at ********@thenextstep.com.au or click “Apply” to apply for this role.

📌 HR & Recruitment Contractor (Brisbane)
🏢 The Next Step Recruitment
📍 Brisbane