Senior HR Advisor – Wagga Wagga

  • All Posting Locations: Bomen, New South Wales, AU
  • Job Functions: HR
  • Date Published: September 15, 2025
  • Ref#: R-96472

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About the Role

Job Description

Join Our Team as a Senior HR Advisor!

We're looking for a seasoned HR professional to join our team at our Wagga Wagga Site in NSW (with occasional travel to Echuca Site, VIC). As a Senior HR Advisor, you'll play a key role in supporting our site management teams and driving HR initiatives that make our workplace a great place to be.

About the Role:

  • Provide expert HR advice and support to site management teams to achieve site goals

  • Develop and implement comprehensive site HR plans, aligned with national HR strategies, to drive business performance

  • Manage the external and internal recruitment and selection process for site staff, ensuring timely and effective resourcing

  • Develop and implement local remuneration and benefits strategies, ensuring equitable and market-competitive compensation

  • Lead organizational development initiatives to increase employee involvement and engagement, including culture surveys, values rollout, and succession planning

  • Manage all work-related and non-work-related injuries, ensuring legislative compliance and cost-effective management

  • Implement national HR policies and procedures, and develop site-specific policies as needed

  • Analyze HR data to inform business decisions and drive improvements

  • Manage Human Resource information systems, maintaining accurate and secure personnel, training, and payroll records

  • Act as the site's communications contact, improving the flow of information to site employees

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement site training and development activities, including the waged employee competency system

  • Manage employee relations, industrial relations, and workplace injuries

  • Provide guidance on EBA and award interpretations, employment law, and HR policies

  • Play a key role in EBA negotiations, driving flexibility outcomes and constructive relationships with unions

  • Manage restructuring activity quickly and constructively

What We're Looking For:

  • Strong industrial relations experience and knowledge of Australian employment law

  • HR experience in a manufacturing site, ideally in the food industry

  • Ability to understand HR strategy and operationalize this effectively on a manufacturing site

  • Excellent coaching, influencing, and negotiation skills

  • Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and prioritize tasks effectively

What We Offer:

  • Opportunity to work with a leading food company

  • Collaborative and dynamic work environment

  • Professional development and growth opportunities

  • Competitive salary and benefits package

If you're a motivated and experienced HR professional looking for a new challenge, we'd love to hear from you! Apply now to join our team!

Location(s)

Wagga

 

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.

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About Us

Kraft Heinz is a global food company with a delicious heritage.  Our emerging and iconic food and beverage brands deliver the best taste, fun, and quality to every table we touch. Worldwide.

We’re on a mission to disrupt not only our own business, but the global food industry. Consumer obsession and unexpected partnerships fuel our progress. As we drive innovation company-wide.

Our people are connected by a culture of ownership, agility and endless curiosity. We believe in being good humans — working to improve our company, communities, and planet.

We’re proud of where we’ve been and even more thrilled about where we’re headed as we nourish the world and lead the future of food.

Why Us

We grow our people to grow our business. We champion great people who bring ambition, curiosity, and high performance to the table as the guardians of our iconic and nostalgic brands.

Good isn’t good enough. We choose greatness every day by making bold decisions and challenging what’s ordinary. All while celebrating our wins – and failures – as we work together to transform the future of food.

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