Make your mark with Thiess  

Everyday, all around the world, Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent and reward transparency. We champion diversity and embrace change.

Join us. Hone your skills and develop new ones. Take on big challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment.  

Thiess is the place to make things happen.

What you’ll do

As the Specialist, Performance & Talent, you will be responsible for designing, embedding and continuously improving our enterprise talent, performance and succession frameworks. Your work will influence leadership pipelines, succession planning, performance governance and capability development across regions.

Reporting to the Group Manager, Total Rewards, you will partner with stakeholders including the Executive Leadership Team, Group Manager People Strategy, HRIS teams and regional HR leaders to ensure our frameworks are simple, scalable, aligned to business strategy and consistently applied across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, govern and continuously improve enterprise talent, succession and performance frameworks, ensuring they are simple, scalable and aligned to CIMIC and Thiess business requirements.
• Lead critical talent and performance cycles, including succession planning, talent Partner with HRIS teams to optimise systems capability across talent, succession and performance processes, including enhancement, reporting design and operational support
• Provide talent, performance and workforce insights to senior leaders, informing organisational capability, leadership pipeline health, and enterprise-level risk and planning.
• Build capability across HR and leadership teams by delivering education programs, strengthening performance conversations, and uplifting skills in talent identification, development and succession planning
• Foster strong stakeholder relationships and promote continuous improvement, ensuring safety reporting, constructive issue resolution, and effective influence across internal and external partners.

What you’ll bring

You’re a people‑focused, analytical and values‑driven HR professional who thrives in complex environments and is confident navigating change. You bring strong foundations in talent, performance and capability development, underpinned by sound judgement, professionalism and relationship‑building strength. Your ability to work with data, HRIS systems and diverse stakeholders enables you to influence outcomes, while your growth mindset and cultural agility support your success across a global and dynamic organisation.

You will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in HR, business management, organisational psychology or equivalent experience, with strong analytical capability and HRIS experience.
• Demonstrated experience across organisational effectiveness, talent, performance and capability development, ideally within complex or Centre of Excellence environments.
• High discretion, professionalism, attention to detail and the ability to build strong relationships across all organisational levels, with cultural agility.
• A growth mindset and confidence navigating ambiguity and change, with exposure to mining, construction or engineering sectors highly regarded.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a strategic, data-informed and collaborative HR professional ready to shape the future of talent at Thiess.

What we offer

• Flexible, hybrid work model
• Supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and continuous improvement
• Opportunity to work with an amazing team on a high impact project 
• Collaborative, values-led culture with a global reach.
• Access to leading-edge technology and systems.
• Competitive salary and employee benefits package

About us 

Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining. 

The pioneering spirit of our founders – the legendary Thiess brothers – is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change. 

At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining. 

We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning – supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining. 

We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers. 

We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of better together. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included and empowered. 

Learn more http://thiess.com/makeyourmark

Should you require assistance applying for this opportunity, please contact us at hiring@thiess.com

How to Apply

This role is an opportunity to take the next step in your career. With our culture of recognition, development, and a stimulating and satisfying work environment, there is no better time to join Thiess.

Thiess follows a Pre-Employment Process for all successful applicants, which includes two employment references, a National Police Check and a medical assessment. These checks are essential to your application, and your recruiter will support you through the process.

Please click the “apply” button to apply for this role.

Applications close: Friday 13 March 2026