Job Description

About BMD

BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business, with foundations built on the family values that underpin our unique, collaborative approach. Driven by a purpose of powering futures and creating enduring legacies through a commitment to collaboration, BMD is delivering infrastructure solutions that connect and transform communities. With a proud history beginning in 1979, BMD now employs 2,400 people throughout Australia, the Philippines and United Kingdom.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced People & Culture Manager to take a senior P&C role supporting a major infrastructure opportunity in Adelaide. The project involves a broad multidisciplinary construction program encompassing significant industrial and manufacturing facilities, workshops, civil and supporting infrastructure, together with associated marine works. Delivering a project of this complexity requires a capable, diverse and highly engaged workforce. You will partner with project leadership to establish the people environment needed to support delivery as the workforce develops.

Your role will include:

• Partnering with project leadership on workforce strategy and planning
• Supporting workforce mobilisation and growth
• Providing practical employee relations and people advice
• Coaching senior and frontline leaders
• Supporting workforce engagement, retention and culture
• Partnering with Talent Acquisition on workforce requirements
• Managing complex employee and organisational matters
• Identifying workforce risks, trends and emerging requirements
• Helping establish a strong and consistent employee experience across the project

About You

You will bring:

• Senior People & Culture/HR experience within Australian construction, infrastructure, engineering or major projects
• Experience supporting large, multidisciplinary and operational workforces
• Strong understanding of Australian employment relations and workplace legislation
• Demonstrated experience partnering with senior construction and project leaders
• Experience across workforce planning, employee relations, performance and engagement
• Experience supporting project mobilisation or significant workforce growth
• Strong capability managing complex employee relations matters
• Experience working with both professional and site-based workforces
• A commercially minded and pragmatic approach to P&C
• Strong coaching, stakeholder management and influencing capability

Highly regarded:

• Tier 1 construction or major infrastructure experience
• Experience in complex industrial relations environments
• Major project workforce mobilisation and ramp-up experience

Diversity and inclusion

We recognise that we are strengthened by diversity, and we embrace differences as an equal opportunity employer providing a flexible and inclusive workplace.

So, join our team, be yourself and help us power futures and create legacies.

We’re a purpose and values-led business guided by our values of family, empowered, collaborative and driven. For further details on what makes BMD unique, head to https://www.bmdgroup.global/careers