People & Culture Business Partner – WA Operations

About the role

APA, Australia's energy infrastructure partner, is looking for a People & Culture Business Partner to join its Perth-based WA Operations Leadership Team. Reporting to the Head of People & Culture Business Partnering - Operations, you will partner with WA Operations leadership to shape and enable people strategies that deliver the target culture, by uplifting leadership capability, building high-performing teams and enabling business performance.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to develop practical people strategies and solutions aligned with APA's enterprise P&C strategy and frameworks.
• Coach and influence leaders across leadership, culture, engagement, performance, talent and succession, building strong, high-performing teams.
• Provide strategic advice on organisational design, workforce planning and people-related risks, with a strong commercial and business lens.
• Shape and deliver workforce and capability plans that build the skills, talent and organisational capability needed for future business needs.
• Work with the Operations Industrial Relations Lead to resolve complex employment and industrial relations matters, including supporting negotiations and implementation and coaching leaders to manage workforce issues.
• Use workforce data and insights to challenge thinking, inform decisions and measure the impact of people initiatives, partnering across P&C to deliver integrated solutions.

Required profile

• Proven ability to coach, challenge and influence senior leaders, navigate complex stakeholder environments and build trusted relationships.
• Experience in a strategic P&C Business Partner role partnering with senior leaders in an operations organisation.
• Experience supporting enterprise agreement negotiations and implementation is highly regarded.
• Experience in energy, utilities, infrastructure, resources, mining or another industrially complex environment is highly regarded.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in Australia; the role involves critical data, systems or infrastructure and is subject to background vetting, including police checks.

Required skills

• Workforce planning, organisational design, talent, succession, leadership and culture.
• Industrial relations and enterprise agreements.
• Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability, using workforce data to identify issues and shape practical solutions.

What we offer

• Targeted career development programs.
• Competitive remuneration and employee benefits.
• Flexible working arrangements and wellbeing initiatives.
• Inclusive parental leave of 18 weeks, including superannuation.