Build partnerships. Create opportunities. Drive apprentice success.

As an Apprentice Placement & Industry Engagement Consultant, you’ll connect apprentices and trainees with meaningful host placements across the building and construction and defence industries. You’ll build strong relationships with host employers, understand workforce needs and proactively secure placement opportunities.

Your focus is minimising downtime for our apprentices and trainees and ensuring smooth, continuous progression, whilst proactively gaining an understanding of host employers’ future workforce requirements. With a mix of high-energy employer engagement and coordination behind the scenes, you’ll be part of a team culture that is collaborative, supportive and driven by shared success.

If you’re relationship-focused, proactive and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is your opportunity to make a real impact! 

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with host employers through regular outbound contact to build and maintain strong industry relationships and understand workforce needs.
• Secure and coordinate apprentice placements to ensure apprentices are consistently engaged in meaningful on-site employment or attending trade school.
• Proactively manage placement continuity, minimising downtime by identifying rotation, redeployment and new placement opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Supervisors, Talent, RTO and support teams) to align apprentice needs with employer capacity and compliance requirements.
• Maintain accurate records and reporting, including apprentice profiles, placement documentation, data integrity and system updates.

About You:

What matters most is attitude, strong communication, great organisation, and the ability to build genuine relationships.

• Experience in call centre, administration, customer service, sales or account management

• Proven success in outbound phone engagement

• Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills

• Excellent time management and attention to detail

PEER Perks

• Full-time position offering hybrid work and flexibility
• Competitive salary ($75,000 - $85,000)
• Free access to an onsite gym
• On-site canteen
• Paid volunteer day per year
• Paid community service leave, eg military leave
• Free staff uniform (optional) and laundry allowance
• Monthly RDO Program
• Company Gifted Leave - Christmas shutdown period

PEER values inclusion and is committed to building a diverse working environment. We welcome applications from Veterans, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, culturally and linguistically diverse candidates, people living with a disability, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, and individuals who may not tick all the criteria being sought but are passionate about shaping the future workforce of South Australia.

At PEER, we live our values: Be Respectful, Be Brave, Be Connected and Be Committed.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, relationship-focused role and want to make a real impact on workforce development, apply now.

We are moving fast on this position and are screening / interviewing as applications are received, do not delay submitting your application.

Please call Melanie Ryan on 0436 522 006 for a confidential discussion or email [email protected].