Recruitment Team Lead

Recruitment Team Lead

Location: Western Australia

If you are a recruitment leader who thrives on lifting capability, partnering with senior leaders, and improving how recruitment is delivered, this role is for you.

As the Recruitment Team Lead, you will play a key role within WesTrac’s WA recruitment leadership team, providing direction, guidance and oversight across recruitment delivery. You will influence hiring decisions, support complex recruitment challenges and help strengthen recruitment capability across the business.

This role focuses on leadership and advisory tasks to set direction, build capabilities, and improve outcomes, rather than managing day-to-day recruiting.

What you will do:

• Lead and inspire a high-performing recruitment team, setting clear direction, lifting capability and creating an environment where people do their best work.
• Set the standard for strong leadership, role‑modelling expected behaviours and addressing issues early to maintain performance and momentum.
• Own recruitment and labour hire outcomes across your portfolios, ensuring quality, consistency, cost discipline and appropriate governance.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex or high‑risk hiring, helping leaders manage workforce risk, tight labour markets and competing priorities.
• Lift recruitment capability across the business, coaching leaders to make better hiring decisions and strengthening confidence in recruitment practices.
• Shape and improve how recruitment operates, driving initiatives that make hiring more scalable, sustainable and aligned to business needs.
• Use data and insights to drive results, tracking performance, identifying risks early and continuously improving recruitment outcomes.
• Build strong, ongoing partnerships with senior leaders and hiring managers, advising on role design, attraction strategies and market‑aware hiring decisions.

Our Benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Financial Benefits - Paid Parental Leave & Secondary Carers Leave, Salary Sacrificing, Novated Leasing, Income Protection Insurance & more than 600 retail discounts, such as Coles, Petbarn, Virgin, HOYTS & Crown.
• Health & Wellness - Discounts with BUPA, Fitness Passport to access multiple gyms across Australia & EAP access to support you and your immediate family.
• Culture & Career - Personal and Team Recognition (Made for More awards), Internal Career Progression, Training & Flexibility through our award-winning WesTrac Institute
• Additional Perks - Emergency Services Leave, Defence Force Reserves Leave & Employee Share Purchase Plan opportunity.

Skills & Experience:

• Tertiary qualification in HR, Business or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
• Demonstrated ability to build credibility and influence with senior leaders in a complex, operational environment.
• Strong people leadership capability, with experience leading and developing recruitment professionals.
• Demonstrated experience providing oversight of end-to-end recruitment delivery, including governance and workforce risk
• Experience overseeing or influencing labour hire models and recruitment vendors, including performance, compliance and issue resolution.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using recruitment data and insights to inform decisions and continuous improvement.
• Sound judgement and confidence operating in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.

Our Company & Commitment

With over 4,500 employees, WesTrac is one of the world's largest authorised Cat® equipment dealers, offers a wide range of mining and construction equipment and management solutions. 

At WesTrac, we reflect diverse communities, celebrate our people's diversity, and create a culture where employees feel safe to be their authentic selves. We encourage applications from First Nations people, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those from culturally diverse backgrounds. WORK180 endorsed employer for our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equality.