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Essential Energy is an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industry's future.

About the role

We are currently recruiting for a HR Officer. This role will be based within the Essential Energy footprint with the ability to work from home in a hybrid work environment.

Reporting to the HR Services Manager, you will be responsible for performing critical functions to accurately process a range of Human Resources (HR) support activities in line with Enterprise Agreements, employment contracts and Government legislation.

As the HR Services Officer, you will be the first point of contact to provide high level HR support across a broad range of both internal and external stakeholders, delivering advice and assistance to all employees, and supporting the HR Business Partners and line managers with operational HR and Oracle ERP related enquires.

This this fast-paced role provides a great opportunity to expand professional skills whilst focusing on continuous improvement with a strong system, people and process focus.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide high level and reliable first level advice, interpretation and analysis of HR policies, procedures and practices to HR Business Partners, Line managers and employees;
• Assist in maintaining information and data to ensure quality across current and introduced systems and ensure individual HR records are maintained in an accurate and accessible manner;
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the current Enterprise Agreements, HR policies and procedures and relevant Government legislation; and
• Demonstrate ownership by following through to ensure each enquiry is fully resolved and provide guidance on these matters to other HR Officers.

About You

You will have operational and systems background in a high level and high-volume HR environment with demonstrated experience liaising with all levels of management and providing support in relation to processes with previous experience in updating and maintaining accurate records in an HR system.

To add value to this role, you will be an enthusiastic and committed professional who can foster a positive work culture to strive to execute excellence in employee and stakeholder experience with the ability to maintain confidentiality and use discretion to ensure sensitive matters are handled with diplomacy and respect.

Required Qualifications

Certificate IV in Human Resource Management or Certificate IV in Business and/or demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications.

Why Essential Energy

We offer competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience and 16% superannuation.

Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits including 26 weeks paid parental leave, learning and development opportunities, and Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. For more information on our benefits, please visit the employee benefits page.

We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.

We’re a business with a huge range of operational and corporate roles aimed at connecting our communities.

As a pivotal player in the energy future of NSW and the country – we cover 95% of NSW and parts of southern QLD - we are an organisation with a wider variety of roles than you may first think.

Whether you want to work remotely, in a coastal region or rurally, we will invest in you, develop you and help you shape a career in energy that will give you future opportunities you may never have realised in a sector where there is so much to explore.

For further information please contact Carole Nash, HR Services Manager on 0402 300 334.

Applications close on Sunday 1 December 2024 at 11:55pm.

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Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.