Our client is a high-performing Melbourne manufacturing business with an exceptionally strong team and management group. They need an HR Manager who can help them maintain, and further improve, a top 5% performance standard.

Above all, you'll bring a proven track record of uplifting organisations and teams to elite performance standards. You'll take on people-management responsibilities currently carried by managers and senior managers, so they can stay focused on growth, operations, clients and strategic execution.

It's a contract role, three days a week on site, paying $60 to $65 per hour plus super.

How HR works here

In this business, HR exists to help the organisation perform: achieving its strategic objectives through its people, with the workforce delivering the performance, output, improvement and accountability required.

You'll be fact-based, commercially aware and fair, working within all applicable legal, policy and company frameworks. The role suits someone who sees HR first and foremost as a driver of business performance, rather than primarily as a mediator or advocate.

Performance management: the heart of the role

- Managing underperformance and correcting performance
- Running disciplinary processes and leading difficult employee conversations
- Following up and holding people accountable until agreed improvements actually occur
- Maintaining high standards across the workforce
- Supporting continuous improvement in employee capability and output

The aim is to free up management time so leaders can keep driving the company's growth.

Your wider contribution

- Giving leaders sound, fact-based advice,



and coaching managers and supervisors to lift how they lead
- Making sure policies are understood and followed, and managing EEO and bullying and harassment risk
- Bringing strategic HR thinking into business planning and keeping leadership across employment law changes
- Running appraisal cycles that lead to real development
- Building a culture of high standards that people enjoy, through engagement, team events and the social club

A genuine meritocracy

People here are assessed on their actual contribution, capability and results, never on connections, status or how busy they look. You'll strongly support a culture that judges performance on results, value created, contribution to growth and strategic objectives, quality of work, reliability, accountability and continuous improvement.

Diversity here is the natural result of genuine merit: everyone gets a fair opportunity and is judged on performance and ability. You'll champion that fairness across the organisation and with external stakeholders, including clients.

About you

- Uplifting organisations and teams to elite performance standards, with measurable results
- Hands-on experience in a similar HR Manager or HR generalist role, ideally in manufacturing or a similar industry




- Performance management and employee relations, including underperformance, disciplinary processes and terminations handled fairly and by the book
- A fact-based, commercial approach to HR that aligns people decisions with strategic objectives
- Strong working knowledge of national and state employment law, award interpretation and the National Employment Standards
- Coaching managers and supervisors, and delivering training on EEO, bullying and harassment, and diversity

You’ll also need a relevant degree in human resources, training, behavioural sciences or commerce, and advanced Microsoft Word and Excel skills.

Recruitment experience is desirable, but not essential.

Established recruitment systems and support will continue to handle much of this function, so if you bring exceptional capability in performance management, organisational development, leadership support, culture, employee relations, disciplinary processes, continuous improvement and commercial HR, a lack of specialist recruitment expertise won't rule you out.

Is this you?

If you can say this with confidence, and back it up with evidence, we'd like to hear from you:

I can take a high-performing organisation, remove HR and people-management burden from its senior leaders, strengthen accountability and performance, deal confidently with underperformance, develop people further, and help an already strong team perform at an even higher level.

Our client is an equal prospect employer. All applicants must have permanent, unrestricted rights to live and work in Australia.

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📌 HR Manager – Part-Time Contract Basis (Melbourne)
🏢 S & S Australia Investment, Property, Business Advice and Accounting
📍 Melbourne