Employment Relations Advisor

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for an Employment Relations Advisor to join our People, Safety & Culture team in Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney office on a permanent full-time basis.

Reporting to the Employee Relations Manager, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of consistent, compliant and pragmatic employee relations outcomes by managing workplace cases, advising leaders, and strengthening Employee Relations practices to mitigate risk.

As part of a specialist ER function, this role offers significant ownership, visibility and the opportunity to operate as a trusted advisor across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end employee relations cases including disciplinary, performance, grievance and misconduct matters across a broad and complex stakeholder group

• Provide commercially sound, practical ER advice to leaders and P&C Business Partners aligned to legislation, policy and enterprise agreements

• Conduct thorough workplace investigations, ensuring procedural fairness and well-supported outcomes

• Draft clear, high-quality and defensible documentation including allegations, findings and outcome correspondence

• Maintain accurate case management records and contribute to ER reporting, insights and continuous improvement initiatives

• Support Fair Work conciliation preparation and represent the business in appropriate matters, escalating higher risk or sensitive issues as needed

Your Background

• Strong experience in employee relations or HR business partnering roles with demonstrated ownership of complex or sensitive workplace matters

• Solid working knowledge of Australian employment law, Fair Work framework and enterprise agreement interpretation

• Proven capability in conducting investigations and managing cases independently from start to finish

• Sound judgement with the ability to balance compliance, risk mitigation and pragmatic business outcomes

• Highly developed stakeholder management skills with the confidence to coach, influence and challenge leaders

• Resilient, detail-oriented and comfortable operating in a lean team where autonomy and accountability are essential

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.