Oracle HCM Specialist

Essential Energy is an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industry's future. 

 This is a permanent role and can be based anywhere within Essential Energy’s operational footprint.  

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Oracle HCM Specialist to join our Assets and Digital division. Reporting to the Oracle HCM and Security Manager, this role plays a critical part in supporting, maintaining and enhancing the Human Capital Management (HCM) components of Essential Energy's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment.

Working closely with HR, Payroll, Recruitment, Learning and Development, and Organisation Development teams, you will help optimise system functionality, improve business processes, and ensure the integrity of employee and payroll data. You will also collaborate with ERP and Security Specialists to deliver integrated support across multiple business systems and modules.

About the Role

As an Oracle HCM Specialist, you will be responsible for providing functional support and expertise across the Oracle HCM platform, ensuring a seamless experience for business users while driving continuous improvement across people systems and processes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing expert support across Oracle HCM modules and associated business processes.
• Managing and resolving service requests, incidents and system issues while delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
• Investigating complex issues, performing root cause analysis and driving resolutions through to completion.
• Supporting system upgrades, releases, testing activities and post-production support.
• Partnering with HR and Payroll teams to support critical people and payroll processes.
• Working with third-party vendors, managed service providers and internal stakeholders to deliver system enhancements and improvements.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, user experience and system performance across the employee lifecycle.
• Supporting change management activities and ensuring governance processes are followed for system enhancements.

About You

You are a proactive and customer-focused systems specialist who enjoys solving problems, building relationships and improving business processes through technology. You bring strong ERP knowledge, excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement.

You will have:

• Experience supporting Oracle HCM or a similar ERP application.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess issues and implement practical solutions.
• Experience supporting software releases, testing activities and change management processes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across all levels of an organisation.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• A commitment to delivering outstanding customer service and business outcomes.

 Required Qualifications/Skills

• Advanced Diploma in Computer Systems Technology or a related discipline or demonstrated capability through relevant experience and qualifications.

Why Essential Energy

We offer competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience.

Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits including 26 weeks paid parental leave, learning and development opportunities, and Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. For more information on our benefits, please visit the employee benefits page.

We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.  

An energy network doesn’t just keep the lights on… it’s a living network that needs to adapt to new and emerging energy generation technologies while still meeting the energy needs of customers.   

It requires innovation, commitment, and collaboration to bring people together to solve the energy delivery challenges of the modern world.   

Your potential will be realised, and you’ll feel a real sense of purpose and satisfaction knowing you have a pivot role to play in delivering the energy of the future to the people who need it today. u and help you shape a career in energy that will give you future opportunities you may never have realised in a sector where there is so much to explore. 

For further information please review PDNET1123 and contact Rebecca Hawker, Oracle HCM and Security Manager on 0439 589 674 or Steve Howe - Enterprise Application Manager on 0427 926 853.

Applications close on Sunday 9 August 2026 at 11:55pm.    

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As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.  

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