At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a recruitment team and build a proactive talent function in a growing mining services company.
- Company: Dynamic, founder-led civil and mining services group with rapid growth.
- Benefits: Opportunity to shape recruitment strategy and influence company culture.
- Other info: Located in Subiaco, close to transport, with travel to Goldfields required.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a fast-paced environment and grow your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Strong talent sourcing skills and a passion for innovative recruitment strategies.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 $ per year.
Ready to stop just managing vacancies and start building a talent function from the ground up? Our client is a founder-led civil and mining services group on a genuine growth trajectory, scaling from around 650 people to 1,000 in a relatively short window. That kind of growth needs a recruitment leader who can keep pace with it, not just keep up with it. This isn't a caretaker role, and it isn't one for someone who has already done it all and is coasting. It's a real leadership opportunity for someone who is ready for their next step: a strong operator currently working under a senior leader, hungry for the chance to take ownership and make a bigger mark.
The role will lead a team of 3 to 4 across recruitment and administration, with recruitment oversight across the wider group and a main focus on two of its core operating brands (plus support for two others). You'll report to the GM-HR and work closely with them day to day, so you'll need genuine influence and a thick skin, someone who can take direct feedback without taking it personally. Based in Subiaco, a five-minute walk from the train, with regular travel required to build real relationships on the ground in the Goldfields.
What we're looking for:
- Strong hands-on talent sourcing capability and a genuine passion for finding people in a tight market.
- Modern recruitment thinking: comfortable with new sourcing technology, talent communities and non-traditional attraction strategies.
- A builder, not just a manager: someone who can grow a proactive talent function rather than simply process vacancies.
- Someone who naturally says 'let's try this' rather than 'we've always done it that way.'
- Ideally, some exposure to mining or civil environments, though mindset matters more than a perfect CV.
- Comfortable jumping in to help with higher level recruitment when the team needs it.
Leadership style that will thrive here:
- Leads by influence, not authority, and treats Operations leaders as key stakeholders and internal clients.
- Emotionally intelligent and able to flex approach across different personalities and situations.
- Able to support leaders while still challenging constructively when it matters.
- Hands-on and practical: a genuine doer, comfortable rolling up their sleeves, not a strategist who sits above the work.
- Commercially minded but people-focused, with the resilience to handle the pace of rapid growth.
If you're commercially minded, people-focused and ready to shape the future recruitment capability of a business that's founder-led and growing fast, I want to hear from you.
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