Human Resources Manager – Black Star Open Cut
Regional HR – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Ref. No. 11111. This role is based in Brisbane with a requirement to travel to site, working a Monday‐Friday roster.
About the Role
The Human Resources Manager is responsible for leading workforce and people‐related components supporting the Black Star Open Cut (BSOC) Feasibility Study and execution phases, while ensuring effective delivery of operational HR priorities across the site. The role serves as the key interface between operational leadership, project stakeholders, and central HR functions to embed workforce planning, organisational design, industrial relations, and mobilisation into project planning and readiness. It requires strong operational and commercial capability to balance immediate operational outcomes with future project needs. The position reports directly to the Project Director – BSOC.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead workforce planning inputs for the BSOC Feasibility Study, including organisational design, labour strategies, and mobilisation planning
* Develop and align workforce plans with operational requirements, ensuring commercially robust assumptions and readiness for project execution
* Provide workforce cost modelling, reporting, and insights to support leadership decision‐making
* Identify and manage workforce risks, including labour constraints, skills gaps, industrial relations, and market impacts
* Partner with leaders to drive workforce productivity, utilisation, and optimisation, including oversight of vacancies, contractors, absenteeism, overtime, and costs
* Support recruitment delivery and development of critical skills pipelines
* Act as the key HR interface across operations, project teams, and central HR, providing strategic and operational HR advice
* Support governance, assurance, and continuous improvement initiatives related to workforce planning and performance
Experience & Skills Required
This role requires significant HR leadership experience within mining, heavy industry, or similarly complex industrial environments, with a strong emphasis on supporting major capital projects or large‐scale feasibility studies. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to integrate workforce planning, organisational design, and industrial relations into project delivery frameworks, alongside strong commercial acumen and execution capability. Experience operating across multidisciplinary stakeholder groups and within structured project governance environments is essential.
You Will Bring
* Strong workforce planning and organisational design capability
* Expertise in industrial relations and workforce risk management
* Experience in major projects, feasibility studies, or capital project delivery
* Commercial acumen with operational execution focus
* Ability to work across operational, technical, and corporate stakeholders
* High‐level stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
* Strong problem‐solving capability in complex environments
* Experience working to critical timelines within governance frameworks
* Ability to manage competing priorities in high‐pressure settings
Benefits
* Competitive Remuneration packaged with 13% superannuation
* Benefits program including discounts with Health Insurance providers, online and in‐store discounts through Glencore Rewards, salary sacrificing vehicles, Employee Referral Program and Recognition and Reward programs
* Fantastic professional development opportunities with leadership development programs, ambassador programs and unrivalled career opportunities
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