Manager Employee Relations | Perth
Australia
About BHP
At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
Come and be a part of this success.
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to fill the position of Manager Employee Relations, based in Perth.
This role is part of the Employee Relations function and has responsibility for strategic employee relations matters to enable safe, sustainable and productive outcomes in BHP’s operations in Western Australia.
Reporting to the Head of Employee Relations and working collaboratively with the business, Human Resources, Legal and other supporting functions, this role is a strategic, proactive partner to senior business leaders offering a regionally consistent approach on complex employee
and industrial relations matters.
This role leads a team of ER professionals focused on delivering practical and strategic employee and industrial relations solutions, balancing risk management and enabling business priorities.
Core Responsibilities:
- Leads the delivery of ER strategic actions and plans, including the development of local strategies and tactical plans to enable business priorities.
- Partners with senior leaders to provide evidence-based and strategic advice in alignment with longer term business objectives.
- Applies an understanding of internal and external business context and BHP operating model to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance. Ability to confidently analyse and interpret data to support advice and decision-making is an advantage.
- Identifies, effectively engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.
- Identifies risks, makes risk adjusted/informed decisions and implements BHP's risk management framework to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
- Relentlessly pursues continuous improvement, leveraging BHP’s Operating System to achieve excellence.
About You
- Experience in a large organisation with multiple enterprise agreements and a large operational workforce
- Experience leading, motivating and developing a team and bringing teams together in a flexible and collaborative work environment
- Exemplary commitment to inclusive leadership and ensuring psychological safety and wellbeing
- Advanced stakeholder engagement and influencing capabilities with ability to leverage internal and external stakeholder relationships at all levels
- Expertise in Australian industrial relations and employment legislation and ability to provide up-to-date industrial relations advice and information
- Demonstrable experience in developing strategies and supporting tactical plans, strategic decision-making and risk management
- Cross functional HR experience where deep analytical and problem-solving skills were developed
- Experience in enterprise agreement negotiations and managing ER risks in business transformation initiatives is essential
- Strong work ethic, ability to prioritise business critical activities and a willingness to travel regionally regularly
- Mining, Manufacturing and/or Resources industry experience is desirable
- Bachelor's degree in HR, IR or Law is an advantage, experience in employee relations or relevant field is essential
- Based in Perth or willingness to relocate
BHP’s Ways of Working Framework requires at least 3 days per week in our Perth office and travel to our operational sites or interstate offices as required. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements.
Open for applications until 4-Feb-2026.
About Our Process
At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.
If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.
At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.