HR Coordinator

Transpower-Wellington City, New Zealand

Bring your attention to detail and love of juggling multiple priorities!

  • Exciting organisation, dynamic role including HR and Recruitment Coordination
  • Deepen and broaden your knowledge and understanding of Human Resources

Unique critical utility at the centre of the electricity sector. Join a team passionate about empowering the energy future for New Zealand.

Transpower has a dual role as New Zealand's owner and system operator of the National Grid. As the transmission network asset owner, we keep the energy flowing - transporting high voltage electricity from where it is generated to cities, towns, and some major industrial users nationwide. As System Operator, we operate the electricity market and power system 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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A lifeline utility, and essential service, we currently employ over 1100 people nationwide. To meet climate change, and sustainability goals, electrification of New Zealand’s economy is no longer in doubt: it’s happening, and the pace of change is only going to accelerate!

About the opportunity

The People team at Transpower are responsible for enabling leaders and managers to be outstanding in their role driving organisational performance, managing people, and delivering outcomes.

The People Business Partnering team works closely with managers and employees across the organisation and provides a shared services function across the broader HR team. As one of two HR Coordinators you'll work as one tight unit, providing customer focused, cohesive and comprehensive administrative, coordination and process support for both recruitment and human resources.

You'll enjoy a mentally stimulating environment, with good variety, and collaborate broadly with employees, managers, the wider HR team and job applicants to address enquiries and facilitate processes in an accurate and timely manner whilst exercising good judgement, upholding confidentiality and HR best practice.

What will you bring?

A tertiary qualification e.g. psychology, law, sociology, commerce or a related field, and professional, clear and concise verbal and written communication.

Experience in HR and/ or recruitment coordination and administration. You are known for your eagerness to learn and your ability to balance multiple coordination and administrative tasks and perspectives with achieving sustainable commercial outcomes.

Your CV and cover letter will clearly demonstrate:

  • Excellent ability to operate effectively at pace with a high work output and accuracy and attention to detail. Tell us about your understanding of or exposure to HR/recruitment processes, legislation, and privacy)
  • Experience using and learn IT systems (e.g. Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Snaphire or other applicant tracking and/or payroll systems)
  • Demonstrated ability to follow and uphold process and policy, whilst demonstrating flexibility and adaptability to meet changing business needs
  • Highly effective and proactive planning, organizing and time management skills (you are an admin/coordination whizz)
  • Well-developed interpersonal skills - ideally involving engagement and expectation management of both internal and external stakeholders

Join us at Transpower - in Wellington

With over 28 ethnicities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share and which we celebrate.

Our coordination roles are based in the office, which helps us build and maintain relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. Working with your colleagues we tag team start and finish times to ensure the workday is well covered.

Next steps

Current, and full eligibility to work in New Zealand is required.