Senior Employee Relations Consultant

Bring your expertise as a Consultant, working with private and public sector clients consulting and advising on Workplace, Employee Relations and HR matters. 

Location: Perth 

Contract Type: Permanent 

MinterEllison is Australia’s largest law firm and provides legal and consulting services.

Purpose is at our core. We create lasting impacts with our clients, our people and our communities. Our teams collaborate and deliver to our Purpose, and consistently work to embed our values into everyday actions. Clients rely on our expertise and insights. They value our responsive, creative and commercial approach. We are curious by nature, diverse in our disciplines and authentic in our relationships.

Diversity and inclusion is at the core of our Purpose and informs the way we work with each other, our clients and in the community. We know that when we bring together diversity of thinking, skills, experience, gender identity, backgrounds and orientations, we get better results.

The Team

Our Workplace practice group is one of the most successful employment law practices in Australia and is led by industry experts, with extensive experience across the full spectrum of employment law and industrial relations advice. MinterEllison works closely with a broad range of major clients across a range of industries in Australia and we remain at the forefront of emerging developments in technology and innovation within Human Resources.

We appreciate that each workforce is different, with its own characteristics and culture, and pride ourselves on getting to know our client's business. This allows us to provide advice that is useful, practical, commercial and easily implemented. And, by leveraging this experience, we can deliver solutions that are efficient, innovative and cost effective.

Your Role

Our market leading Workplace team in Perth are looking for a talented Senior Workplace Consultant to work with well-respected partners, Kathy Reid and Craig Boyle. This role is available as full time permanent position, due to new opportunities of work from our existing clients.

This role will involve managing different projects, consulting and advising clients from private and public sector on a mix of workplace consultancy, employee relations and HR matters. The role would see you being involved in a range of matters such as enterprise agreement bargaining, drafting and negotiation, workplace investigations, workforce restructuring, culture reviews, payroll consulting and people services.

More about you

We are keen to consider talented people from a variety of backgrounds. You will need to have:

• Experience across employment, industrial and workplace health & safety law, Human Resources and People Services.
• Tertiary qualifications in HR or related discipline
• Minimum of 5 + years providing specialist ER and HR advice to mid-to-large scale organisations in a consulting environment
• Strong relationship building, strategy forming and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to form enduring relationships with peers, clients and industry experts.
• Resilience and a commitment to provide exceptional levels of service to our local and international client base by being agile and outcomes focused.
• Ability to identify opportunities to develop new business and a desire to grow and seek new opportunities.

Why MinterEllison:

We are recognised as Australia's Most Attractive Firm, a WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality in Australia and we hold Gold employer status with the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI).

We make diversity in all its forms central to collaboration. This is why we offer hybrid working options to encourage balance, wellbeing and support for sustainable ways of working. We offer up to 20 weeks paid parental leave for the primary carer within the first 24 months following birth or adoption, and a range of social, financial and health benefits, including free gym membership – all with no minimum tenure.

We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, genders (including if you identify as transgender or gender diverse), sexual orientations, as well as people living with a disability or who have family or carer responsibilities. We particularly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for roles with MinterEllison.

How to apply:

We love to connect with people directly, so please submit your CV and cover letter for consideration by clicking on the 'Apply' button below.

If you would like further information, to tell us about any adjustments you might require through the recruitment process or if you are trans or gender diverse and want a confidential discussion, please contact Danielle.Miller@minterellison.com.

Agency submissions will not be accepted without prior express approval from the MinterEllison recruitment team. All agency candidates must be submitted through our on-line portal to be valid.