People & Culture Business Partner

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a People & Culture Business Partner to be a key member of our Perth based WA Operations Leadership Team. 

Reporting to the Head of People & Culture Business Partnering - Operations, you will partner with our WA Operations leadership team to shape and enable people strategies that deliver our target culture, by uplifting leadership capability, building high-performing teams, and enable business performance to deliver for our customers.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Partner with leaders to develop practical people strategies and solutions aligned with APA’s enterprise P&C strategy and frameworks. 
• Coach and influence leaders across leadership, culture, engagement, performance, talent and succession, building strong and high-performing teams.  
• Provide strategic advice across organisational design, workforce planning and people-related risks, bringing a strong commercial and business lens to decisions.  
• Shape and deliver workforce and capability plans that build the skills, talent and organisational capability required for future business needs.  
• Work with the Operations Industrial Relations Lead to resolve complex employment and industrial relations matters, including, supporting negotiations and implementation, and coaching leaders to manage workforce issues.  
• Use workforce data and insights to challenge thinking, inform decisions and measure the impact of people initiatives, while partnering across P&C to deliver integrated solutions.  

Your Background 

• Proven ability to coach, challenge and influence senior leaders, navigate complex stakeholder environments and build trusted relationships. 
• Strong capability across workforce planning, organisational design, talent, succession, leadership and culture, with the ability to connect these disciplines to business strategy. 
• Experience in a strategic P&C Business Partner role, partnering with senior leaders in an operation organisation. 
• Demonstrated proficiency in experience working with Enterprise Agreements and industrial relations  
• Experience supporting enterprise agreement negotiations and implementation will be highly regarded. 
• Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability, with experience using workforce data and insights to identify issues and shape practical solutions. 
• Experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure, resources, mining or another industrially complex environment will be highly regarded. 

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

Role closes on Wednesday, 11 November 2026. Role Reference Number: JR5212

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.