Aug 2025 – Feb 2026 · 6 mos · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia · Hybrid

• Responsibilities and Accountabilities include:
• Provide strategic people advice and support to the GM's of the South Australian businesses including (but not limited to) business acquisitions, workforce planning, organisational design, organisational capability development and compliance
• Lead a team of P&C Business Partners to drive people strategy and initiatives that support business growth
• Work with the Talent Acquisition team to support the employee lifecycle across all facets including recruitment, induction & on-boarding, performance, remuneration and off-boarding
• Manage the talent and succession process, working with managers to identify high potentials and succession to ensure the business is future proofed and that talent is developed in line with business needs
• With the support of Metcash, drive health and well-being program across the businesses
• Educate and advise leaders and team members as required and initiate appropriate action to minimise adverse employee relations activity and ensure general compliance in relation to the legislation
• Advise and guide leaders who are involved in coaching or counselling employees to improve performance in accordance with Company and legislative requirements
• Assist in the implementation of remuneration and benefits programs to reward and retain team members and to ensure consistency and fairness
• Assist in the identification and development of solutions for training/development needs in partnership with the Learning & Development Team

Oct 2024 – Jul 2025 · 9 mos · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia · Remote

• Responsibilities include:
• Management of pay reviews for relevant Metcash owned entities and any entities Metcash acquire
• Assisting the business with employment related due diligence relating to potential acquisitions and post-acquisition activity required to ensure compliant practices are in place
• Assisting with the creation of an acquisitions playbook to ensure all P&C matters are managed in a consistent manner
• Working with relevant teams to establish and embed Metcash’s P&C compliance framework within
• Assisting in the review of P&C processes to ensure Modern Award covered team members are aligned to the most appropriate Modern Award and classification
• Assisting leaders with queries and training in relation to the application of Modern Award

Sep 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia · Hybrid

• Responsibilities and Accountabilities include:
• Provide strategic support to the GM including business acquisitions, workforce
• planning, organizational design, organizational capability development and
• compliance
• Manage the employee lifecycle across all facets including recruitment, induction &
• on-boarding, performance, remuneration and off-boarding
• Manage the talent and succession process, working with managers to identify high
• potentials and succession to ensure the business is future proofed and that talent is
• developed in line with business needs
• Manage the health and well-being program across the business
• Educate and advise leaders and team members as required and initiate appropriate
• action to minimise adverse employee relations activity and ensure general compliance
• in relation to the legislation
• Advise and guide leaders who are involved in coaching or counselling employees to
• improve performance in accordance with Company and legislative requirements
• Assist in the implementation of remuneration and benefits programs to reward and
• retain team members and to ensure consistency and fairness
• Assist in the identification and development of solutions for training/development
• needs in partnership with the Learning & Development Team
• Provide SHE support with high integrity and alignment of values

Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 · 10 mos

• Responsible for providing leadership and supervision to the Assembly team to deliver quality products to the customer on time whilst driving cost competitive manufacturing processes through continuous improvement activities
• Role responsibilities include:
• Health, Safety and Environmental Management
• Effective management of safety and environmental systems to ensure our people are safe at all times
• Management of safety incidents when they occur and ensure corrective actions are identified and completed.
• Co-ordination of work and non-work related injuries or illnesses with the aim to return employees to their pre-injury/illness duties and state.
• Ensure hazard and risks analysis are conducted and closed out
• Operations Leadership
• Management of present and future labour planning and utilisation to ensure required outputs are achievable within allocated budget forecast.
• Lead and drive daily Short Interval Management meetings
• Ensure compliance of all Quality Management Systems
• Co-ordinate the completion of reactive and preventative maintenance activities.
• Liaise with engineering, quality, maintenance or production logistics on any current product and process issue.
• Co-ordinate the team including labour hire to complete work on time to expectations and recommend and plan for overtime if required.
• Actively promote and implement continuous improvement principles as per the Schneider Production System (SPS)
• People Management and Development
• Monitor and lead teams to meet performance targets.
• Carry out performance management processes as required
• Identify and develop talent for succession
• Communicate direction, progress against production plan, initiatives, changes and successes with the team
• Build and maintain working relationships at all levels to ensure harmonious industrial relations

Jan 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Managing the HR function for the Gepps Cross Manufacturing site, Customer Experience and Pacific Zone Safety team whilst also supporting the Global Supply Chain central functions. Responsibilities include:
• HR Strategy
• Service Leadership
• Workforce Planning and Optimisation
• Employee/Industrial Relations
• Organisational Capability
• Health, Safety & Environment / Workers Compensation
• Remuneration & Benefits

May 2020 – Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

• Responsibilities include:
• Contributing to good school governance so that the school resources are used efficiently, and community expectations and the school’s priorities reflect the needs of students.
• Representative for parents and students and ensuring any matters relating to the education of all students is bought to the Board’s attention

Sep 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gladstone

• Human Resources Management role, partnering with the Coal Business across the Gladstone, Rockhampton and Mackay regions. Functions included:
• Leading a team of HR Business Partners to support Business and HR initiatives.
• Partnering with the General Manager for Coal and the leadership team to provide strategic people advice and coaching.
• Working collaboratively with corporate peers to ensure alignment between the enterprise and business unit people activities.
• Identify and share key business challenges and opportunities with key corporate partners to collaboratively design and deliver enterprise solutions.
• Identify and execute business unit-specific improvement & innovation opportunities and ensure alignment of these with corporate activities and appropriately managing change.
• Proactively monitor, evaluate and provide assurance that all activities within the business unit comply with appropriate people related statutory, regulatory and contractual obligations and company policies, working closely with relevant corporate specialists.
• Drive a continuous improvement focus in the effectiveness of people policies, programs and processes using agreed measures and provide feedback for improvements to policy/process owners.
• Create a high performance culture through fostering Aurizon’s values, meeting Aurizon’s performance standards, and leading culture change and people development initiatives that align to enterprise strategy and goals.

Mar 2010 – Apr 2017 · 7 yrs 1 mo

• Generalist Human Resources role, consulting across two Concrete Business Divisions in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. Functions included:
• End to end Recruitment
• Performance Management
• Enterprise Agreement Negotiations
• Other IR/ER related issues
• Training and Development
• Workforce and succession planning
• Restructures
• Remuneration advice
• Coaching, advising and supporting senior management, operation/line management and supervisors in all HR related matters

Aug 2009 – Mar 2010 · 7 mos

• Secondment position within Adelaide Brighton Ltd Group. Function included:
• Recruitment
• Performance Management
• Enterprise Agreement Negotiations
• Other IR/ER related issues
• Coordination of the Graduate Program
• Coaching, advising and supporting line management and supervisors in HR related matters

Feb 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Generalist HR role consulting across the SA and NT states. Functions include:
• Recruitment
• Performance Management
• Enterprise Agreement Negotiations
• Other IR/ER related issues
• Coordination of a Vacation Program dealing mainly with the Engineering and Science fields
• Coordination of the Graduate Program
• Coaching, advising and supporting line management and supervisors in HR related matters

May 2006 – Feb 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Generalist role with a main focus on re-developing the Adelaide Brighton Ltd Graduate Program