This role is about building the 'People Engine' to deliver our $100M growth strategy. 

Your accountabilities will include: 

• Talent Acquisition: Own our recruitment capability, including personally recruiting the critical senior roles that move the needle. 

• A-Player Standard: Own our A-Player Standard to ensure we only hire, develop, and reward the right people. 

• Performance Framework: Implement high-impact feedback systems that drive a high-performance and high-accountability culture. 

• Org Planning: Partner with the Founder and senior leaders to design an organisational plan that will deliver the strategy. 

• Remuneration Design: Own remuneration planning and incentive design to attract, align, drive, and retain the right talent. 

• Development & Succession: Coach our leaders to become world-class people managers and provide pathways for high-potential talent. 

• HR Tech Stack: Select and implement a simple, high-impact HR stack, leveraging AI tools to drive productivity. 

• Frontline Manager Focus: Equip our managers to handle 99% of people and performance management, ensuring the frontline manager leads the team (with HR coaching the manager only when required). 

This is a group-level role across multiple businesses, with your primary focus being our flagship, Beaver Process Equipment. Our group is currently 120 people total and growing at 20–30 per year.

You believe in the philosophy of 'people managing people'. You understand that your role is to hire the right talent, build the performance system, and mentor the leaders – not to do the managing for them. 

Character Traits  

• Commercial & Practical: You are an 80/20 thinker with a strong bias to action. 

• Structured Builder: You like using data, systems, and processes to drive repeatable outcomes. 

• High-Performance Mindset: You believe recruiting and retaining ‘A-player’ talent is necessary to achieve 10x growth. 

• Direct & Pragmatic: You are comfortable with 'Straight Talk' and timely, pragmatic action to achieve better outcomes for the business. 

• High Figure-it-out Factor: You are a smart, curious operator who finds what works and implements it, fast. 

• Core Value Fit: You must be a strong fit for our Beaver Core Values: https://www.beaverprocess.com.au/careers/. 

Experience  

• Strong Career Progression: 8+ years of professional experience with clear progression in hands-on management or People-related roles. 

• Private Business Experience: Proven track record in a private company environment, ideally working closely with an entrepreneurial owner. 

• Talent Acquisition Expertise: Demonstrated ability to deliver senior, executive, and mission-critical hires. 

• Mixed Workforce Exposure: Experience across white-collar professional and technical/blue-collar workforces. 

Target Profiles  

• Profile 1 – The People Lead: A talented People/HR lead or manager who thrives in private or founder-led environments and knows how to build people systems to scale. 

• Profile 2 – The General Manager: A highly-capable generalist who knows how to run things and who loves the challenge of building scalable systems and high-performing teams