Senior Workplace Relations Specialist

Job title : Senior Workplace Relations Specialist
Location : Queensland
Job type : Permanent or Full Time
Contact name : Kerry Pitout
Contact email : kpitout@sharpandcarter.com.au
Job reference : 1697150
These roles form part of a strategic investment in building deeper internal capability, strengthening investigation quality, and supporting a geographically distributed national model.

You will work on the organisation’s most complex, sensitive, and high-risk matters, partnering closely with senior leaders to manage risk, drive best practice, and deliver commercially sound outcomes.

About the Roles Two permanent positions are available:
  • Senior Specialist 
  • Specialist 
Both roles play a critical role in stabilising workload, lifting capability, and enabling future team growth. Based in Mount Gravatt, these roles offer a flexible hybrid model (2 days in office, 3 days WFH).

Key Responsibilities
As a trusted Workplace Relations advisor, you will:
  • Independently manage complex workplace investigations end-to-end, including planning, interviews, evidence analysis, credibility assessments, findings, and recommendations
  • Provide high-level advisory support on redundancies, restructures, disputes, performance, misconduct, and broader workplace risk
  • Represent the organisation at early stages of litigation, including conciliations and conferences in relevant tribunals
  • Manage matters before employment-related bodies, including preparation, filing, and service of documentation
  • Assess and mitigate risk across unfair dismissal, general protections, discrimination, bullying, harassment, and injury-related matters
  • Negotiate settlement agreements, managed exits, and dispute resolutions
  • Support leaders managing long-term non-work-related illness and injury matters
  • Deliver coaching and learning sessions on employment-related matters
  • Analyse trends and emerging risks to inform proactive business interventions
  • Operate confidently in a high-volume, fast-paced environment without compromising quality
This is a strategic advisory role requiring sound judgment, strong technical capability and the confidence to influence senior stakeholders.

About you
  • Strong experience in complex workplace relations and employment law
  • Extensive experience managing high-risk workplace investigations and complex employee relations cases 
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and complex environment with multiple stakeholder group
  • Highly experienced in building strong stakeholder relationships and influencing people with ease 
If this role sounds like the ideal next step in your career, please reach out to Kerry for a confidential conversation 0420 381 481 or kpitout@sharpandcarter.com.au