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Compensation and Benefits Lead

About KBR Australia:

We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers and dreamers who all share one goal — to improve the world.

KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 34,000 people performing diverse, complex, and mission-critical roles in 33 countries.  

For 65 years, KBR and its heritage companies are proud to have delivered some of Australia’s largest and most complex projects.

With around 2,000 employees in 6 primary offices throughout Australia, we are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset driving innovation within our business and for our customers.

We help ensure mission success on land, in the air, at sea, in space and cyberspace for our defence customers.

From individual technologies and services to comprehensive project delivery and mission execution, no other company can match the breadth and depth of KBR.

KBR comprises a diverse team who provide a broad spectrum of capabilities across Australia and the Asia Pacific. Our proven project teams readily address complex and multi-disciplinary activities, providing low-risk and cost-effective solutions to the defence force.

The opportunity:

KBR Australia is seeking a talented Compensation and Benefits Lead to serve as the point of contact for the People & Culture Team and Business Leadership on compensation, incentive schemes, and the benefits programs across all KBR APAC business lines.

As the Compensation and Benefits Lead, you will manage market intelligence activities, including the submission of salary surveys, compensation benchmarking, and analysing data to populate KBR Australia’s job pricing database.

In conjunction with People & Culture and Business Unit (BU) Leads, you will design project specific performance and retention incentive plans, as well as support global initiatives including the Annual Salary Review and incentive nominations processes. A key focus will be providing guidance on the uplift of KBR Australia’s compensation and benefits offering, ensuring compliance with local legislative requirements where applicable.

This position is Full Time, based in either Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney or Melbourne.

In this position you will:

• Working with the global compensation team and the local People team to design compensation and benefits solutions for employees

• Ensuring compliance with legislative requirements as appropriate

• Participation in various project work and testing including global Workday maintenance

• Providing input into bids and proposals, specifically to respond to requests for internal and external compensation and benefits data and associated questions

• Communicating with employees and management through the update of people policies, maintenance of internal P&C website and other internal communications channels.

As the ideal candidate, you will bring:

• Prior experience in a specialised compensation and benefits role

• Prior experience with salary surveys and benchmarking

• Strong data analysis skills

• Australian Citizen with ability to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Commerce, HR or similar (desirable)

• Knowledge of Workday (compensation) (desirable)

Benefits of KBR:

KBR is committed to supporting the professional development of staff at every stage of their career through in-house training, performance rewards and structured career paths. We offer a competitive package of lifestyle benefits that include family-friendly work hours.

If you’re ready to shape tomorrow, let’s get started. Apply Now!

KBR acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connections to land, sea, community and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive and diverse work environment. We encourage candidates of all abilities to apply.

As a Major Service Provider of the Australian Defence Force, an AGSVA security clearance may be required and compliance to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). As such, our hiring decisions are based on the key requirements of each role and candidates are selected based on their unique strengths and experiences.

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