Human Resources Advisor - HR Shared Services

Location: Highbrook, Auckland (Free onsite parking)

Experience: 2–3 years

Ready to take the next step in your HR career? Whether you’re an experienced HR Administrator looking to grow or an HR Advisor wanting to broaden your experience, this is an exciting opportunity to join our HR Shared Services team, our first point of contact for HR advisory support for our business and wider HR team.

About Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of innovative healthcare solutions used in hospitals and homes around the world. Since 1969, our products have helped improve patient care and outcomes — and our people remain at the heart of that mission.

About the role

This role offers variety, challenge, and the chance to broaden your HR experience. You will provide consistent HR advice and support across the business to our managers, employees and wider HR team.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

• Provide guidance and advice around the interpretation of agreements, policies, procedures and legislation.
• Work with managers and employees to respond to day-to-day people issues.
• Draft, review and approve employment agreements, variations and general employment letters.
• Supporting the wider HR team with company wide initiatives and projects.
• Acting as an escalation point for the HR Administrators and provide advice and guidance to them as needed. 

• Support continuous improvement initiatives to streamline and enhance HR processes.

About you

In this role you will have exposure to a range of HR generalist activities working across a multi functional, large HR team. This role would suit a person who can show initiative, has a high attention to detail, is proactive and a great team player.

We are looking for someone with:

• An HR related tertiary qualification
• 2–3 years’ experience in an HR generalist role, ideally within a large and/or unionised environment and preferably in a HR Shared Services team
• A customer focused mindset, high attention to detail, strong problem solving skills, and a drive to improve HR service delivery
• Ability to communicate in both a verbal and written format, to a very high standard
• Ability to form relationships at all levels to enable you to partner successfully with customers and the wider HR team

• Exposure to employment relations, including supporting or shadowing end‑to‑end ER cases
• Experience working with unions and familiarity with collective agreements
• Strong knowledge of New Zealand employment legislation
• Experience using an HRIS (we use SAP SuccessFactors) and the ability to analyse data to generate insights (we utilise Power BI)

What is great about working here

• A supportive and collaborative HR team
• Opportunities to grow your career within HR or across the wider business
• Competitive remuneration and benefits
• Subsidised cafeterias and café
• Free onsite parking
• An additional company day off each year
• Generous parental leave
• A beautiful head office campus in Highbrook

We are dedicated to designing our recruitment process with care and empathy to support all candidates, regardless of identity, background, and experiences. Should you require support or adjustments during our process, please let us know at recruit@fphcare.co.nz.

If you would like the opportunity to work with a supportive and diverse HR team, apply now!