This is a outstanding opportunity to join a leading Australian food processing and manufacturing organisation with a strong national footprint and a proud history of delivering quality Australian products to local and global markets.

Operating within a large-scale, sophisticated processing environment, the business is committed to operational excellence, safety and building a strong, capable workforce.

The Opportunity

This is a key, hands-on site-based leadership role where you will take full ownership of the People & Culture function.

Highly visible and hands-on, you will partner closely with operational leaders to drive workforce stability, capability and engagement across a large, labour-intensive site.

This role balances strategic input with practical delivery — setting standards, building leader capability and ensuring people initiatives translate into real outcomes on the floor.

Key Responsibilities

- Act as the trusted People & Culture partner to site leadership
- Provide practical, commercially sound advice across the employee lifecycle
- Lead, coach and develop the on-site P&C; team
- Drive workforce planning, recruitment and talent management
- Manage ER/IR matters including performance, investigations and compliance
- Ensure strong governance, HR data integrity and legislative alignment




- Embed company values into everyday behaviours and site culture
- Partner with central teams to ensure consistency across the broader business

About You

- Proven experience in a site-based operational HR/P&C; role within manufacturing, processing, logistics or a similar environment
- Strong ER/IR capability with confidence managing complex casework
- Ability to influence and partner with operational leaders in fast-paced environments
- A hands-on, pragmatic approach and comfortable being highly visible on site
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience leading HR operations, governance and workforce planning

Why This Role?

- Critical leadership role within a well-established Australian organisation
- Genuine opportunity to shape culture, capability and workforce outcomes
- Autonomy at site level with support from an experienced broader P&C; function
- A regional lifestyle opportunity offering community, space and balance

This role is based in regional NSW and will require relocation if you are not currently based locally.

If you're an experienced HR professional who enjoys being close to the operation and seeing the impact of your work every day, this is a rare opportunity to step into a role with real influence.

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📌 People & Culture Manager - Regional NSW (Sydney)
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