Workplace Relations and Remuneration Team Leader

Workplace Relations and Remuneration Team Leader – Permanent – Perth 

The Workplace Relations and Remuneration Team Leader plays a pivotal role in shaping and delivering strategic people solutions that enhance employee experience, drive performance, and align with organisational goals. This role leads a team of specialists who provide expert advice across employee relations and remuneration. As a trusted advisor, the Team Leader ensures the delivery of high-quality, consistent, and values-aligned advisory services.  

This role is instrumental in fostering a culture of excellence, inclusion, and continuous improvement, while ensuring compliance, equity, and innovation in all people-related practices  

Your Role in Action   

• Lead and manage the Workplace Relations and Remuneration team to deliver consistent, high-quality HR advisory services in employee relations and remuneration.   

• Provide expert guidance on complex employee relations and remuneration issues, ensuring all advice is compliant with legislation, enterprise agreements, and internal policies.   

• Advise senior leaders and HR business partners on best-practice approaches, and communicate clear, actionable recommendations for resolution  

• Ensure strict compliance with Enterprise Agreements regarding classification and remuneration frameworks. Monitor and interpret changes to enterprise agreements and ensure all classification and remuneration practices are updated accordingly.   

• Deliver training and guidance to HR and business leaders on agreement provisions and compliance requirements.    

• Partner with senior leaders to align people strategies with business objectives, using data-driven insights to inform decisions.   

What Makes You a Great Fit  

• Tertiary qualifications in HR Management, Law or a related discipline. 

• Extensive experience in remuneration, benefits, and/or employee relations within a complex, regulated environment   

• Ability to understand and align HR strategies with organisational financial and operational context, including budgetary constraints and business drivers  

• A commitment to the creation and management of a compliance culture in which all Company personnel actively pursue compliance as part of their daily duties and responsibilities.  

• Skills to lead teams through organisational transformation, restructures, and capability development. Ability to foster a culture of adaptability and resilience  

• In-depth knowledge of employment law, enterprise agreements, remuneration governance, and risk management. Ability to proactively monitor regulatory changes and ensure ongoing compliance. 

• Experience in dealing with complex employee relations / initiatives and providing subject matter expert advice and guidance.  

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:  

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.   

• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.  

• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.  

• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.  

• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.  

• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.    

• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year. 

• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists. 

• On-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day. 

• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections. 

Applications close on 23 October 2026. 

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.