Job details
| Location: | Werribee |
| Salary: | $60 - $64 per hour + super |
| Job Type: | Temporary |
| Discipline: | |
| Reference: | V-129644 |
| Posted: | about 7 hours ago |
Job description
- Local Government | Western Suburbs
- Contract Role | Immediate Start until Friday, 30 January 2026
- $60–$64 per hour + super
Our client, a local government authority based in the western suburbs is looking for a People Business Partner to join their People and Culture team. This is a full-time role, to start ASAP and is likely to be contracted until January 2026.
This role is ideal for a confident, hands-on HR generalist with proven capability in complex employee and industrial relations matters. You’ll work closely with internal leaders and stakeholders, delivering trusted advice across areas including union matters, enterprise agreements, workplace investigations, and organisational change.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert advice and case management support across complex IR/ER matters
- Engage with union representatives and manage consultative processes
- Support managers with performance management, dispute resolution, and organisational change
- Contribute to policy and procedure review and implementation
- Partner with leaders across the business to support strategic people initiatives
- Degree in Human Resources or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Strong industrial and employee relations experience
- Demonstrated experience working with unions and managing complex cases
- Strong working knowledge of relevant employment legislation and enterprise agreements
- Ideally experience working in a complex regulated environment, like Local Government Kindergartens / Early Childhood Education, Public Hospitals or Healthcare Sector
- Experience working under an EBA
- Flexible work arrangements – 3 days in the office & 2 days from home
- Working for a value driven and community orientated organisation
At Charterhouse, we embrace, and value, diversity of culture, working arrangements, sexual orientation, and gender identity. On behalf of our client, we promote a workplace that actively seeks to include and welcome unique contributions of all people; to embrace and celebrate the value of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, their skills and contributions to the workplace.