People & Culture Coordinator

About us:
WGA is an Australian and New Zealand company like no other – we are owned by the employees, loved by our long-term clients and have deep roots in our communities. With a team of over 700 people, WGA provides a rich, diverse, and empowered workplace, and offers you a chance to work alongside some of the best in the business.

WGA offers an outstanding working environment that fosters and supports mutual learning, respect, dignity, cultural openness, and an appreciation of differing perspectives and backgrounds. We strive to offer inspiring career paths and a selection of fantastic employee benefits. If you enjoy a great office environment, excellent flexibility and the long-term benefits that only a private organisation can offer, then WGA might be for you!

We deliver tailored design engineering solutions across the Buildings, Transport, Water Infrastructure, Urban Development, Ports and Marine, Energy, Defence and Resources sectors. We empower our engineers to think outside the square and dare to be different.

About our approach:
We focus on the core philosophy of delivering excellent engineering solutions for our valued Clients, which allows us to create exceptional, long-term opportunities for our talented personnel. Our unique style of project delivery ensures that our people don't have to choose between maintaining hands on Technical and corporate career options; they can have both!

About our role:
Join WGA in Melbourne as a People & Culture Coordinator and play a key role in delivering a positive, seamless and high-quality employee experience across the full P&C lifecycle.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who brings broad, hands-on generalist capability and enjoys being at the heart of day-to-day P&C operations. You’ll have the chance to take ownership and contribute to how we continuously improve the employee experience, while working as part of a collaborative national team.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Maintain accurate employee records across HR systems (we use Employment Hero and Culture Amp) ensuring data integrity and reporting capability
• Draft employment contracts, letters and P&C documentation
• Take ownership of onboarding, offboarding and employment changes to ensure a seamless employee experience
• Provide day-to-day advice and support to employees and leaders on policies and processes
• Coordinate key lifecycle activities including inductions, employee milestones and recognition initiatives
• Partner with the P&C team to support efficient operations and continuous improvement initiatives
• Prepare reports and dashboards to summarise people metrics and drive business success by deriving insights from data and converting insights into meaningful actions

About you:
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to demonstrate:

• 2+ years’ experience in a HR / People & Culture role
• Exposure to core lifecycle activities (e.g. onboarding, offboarding, inductions, policy interpretation, general P&C administration)
• Proactive, solutions-focused and eager to learn
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of a national team with experience taking ownership of issues to resolution
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across a business
• Excellent computer skills and intermediate capability with the Microsoft Office suite of programs
• Strong attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
• Experience in professional services/consulting/engineering or construction industries ideal

About working with us:
We believe a diverse workplace fosters unique and progressive ideas and drives our culture of learning and sharing knowledge. Underpinned by our values, we offer an outstanding working environment that fosters mutual learning, respect, dignity, cultural openness and an appreciation of differing perspectives and backgrounds.