About This Role
The HR Specialist provides recruitment, onboarding, and administrative support to ensure an efficient hiring process and a positive experience for candidates and new employees. This role coordinates pre-employment requirements, maintains accurate records, and supports collaboration between various departments. It requires a high level of confidentiality, discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment when handling sensitive information.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate onboarding, including pre-employment checks, orientation, documentation, system setup, and new hire follow-ups
- Support recruitment through job postings, application screening, interview scheduling, candidate communication, and hiring manager coordination
- Prepare Employee Agreements, employment verifications, and HR correspondence using approved templates and authorization processes
- Ensure employment documentation is accurate, complete, and submitted on time in accordance with company policies and applicable requirements
- Maintain accurate ATS, HRIS, and personnel records while protecting highly confidential candidate, employee, and company information
- Coordinate onboarding requirements with Payroll, IT, Security, and department managers
- Maintain position descriptions, recruitment materials, onboarding resources, and controlled documents
- Track recruitment and onboarding metrics; collect data for workforce reporting, audits, and compliance reviews
- Audit HR records, resolve discrepancies, and elevate outstanding requirements or concerns
- Support HR projects, workforce planning, recruiting events, and employee engagement activities
- Recommend improvements to recruitment, onboarding, and HR administration
- Perform other HR administrative duties as required by Northern Star – Pogo Mine
Requirements
- Approachable, organized, reliable, and comfortable working with employees and confidential information
- Enjoy being organized, helping others, working collaboratively, and contributing to a workplace where diversity, inclusion and different perspectives are valued and respected
Benefits
- Opportunity to join a supportive, respectful, diverse, and collaborative team
- Workplace that values different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ideas
- Long-term job security supported by an extended mine life
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, along with other company-paid and voluntary benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan and paid leave
- Ongoing professional development and career-growth opportunities with a company that invests in its people
About the Company
Northern Star Resources Limited (ASX: NST) is an Australian ASX 100 gold producer with three Tier-1 world-class projects located in highly prospective and low sovereign risk regions in Australia and North America. Northern Star is the largest Australian gold producer and among the top 10 gold miners globally. The company continues to invest in building a strong asset base through strategic acquisitions and aggressive exploration to extend the mine lives across its world-class operations and generate earning accretive value for its Shareholders through operational effectiveness.
