Our Team
Management & Leadership
A founder-led team of specialist recruiters who understand your industry because they work in it every day. No account managers who’ve never filled a role. Just people who deliver.
Founder & Managing Director
Sebastian Harrison-Barratt
Sebastian founded HBG in 2018 after years inside large recruitment agencies where he saw the same problems repeated: slow response times, account managers who had never placed a candidate themselves, and a disconnect between the people selling the service and the people delivering it.
HBG was built to solve those problems from day one. The person who takes the job order is the same person who sources, screens, and presents the candidates. There is no hand-off, no lost context, and no excuses.
Today, Sebastian still recruits daily, personally managing key client relationships while overseeing national operations across five offices in Australia and New Zealand. He leads the technology and automation strategy that gives HBG its edge, and remains the driving force behind the company’s culture of speed, accountability, and quality.
Operations
The Engine Room
Behind every placement is an ops team making sure payroll, compliance, onboarding, and administration run without a hitch.
Will Broadbent
Operations Manager
Keeps the engine running behind the scenes. Manages operational workflows, compliance documentation, and ensures every placement is processed accurately and on time.
Taryn Williams
Accounts & Compliance
Manages payroll coordination, accounts, candidate onboarding, and compliance processing. Ensures every worker is set up correctly and every invoice is accurate before they step on site.
Labour Hire
The Labour Hire Desk
Our labour hire consultants mobilise screened, ticketed crews to site, often within hours, across building, civil, demolition, asbestos, and landscaping. HBG is the employer of record: we handle payroll, insurance, and compliance.
Ashleigh Bonnette
Lead Labour Hire Consultant
Leads HBG’s labour hire desk across building & construction, civil, demolition, asbestos, and landscaping. Mobilises screened, ticketed crews to site at short notice and owns the client relationships behind them.
Bradley Elliott
Labour Hire Consultant
Places labour hire crews across building & construction, civil, and landscaping. Known for fast turnarounds and keeping sites fully staffed through every stage of a build program.
Beth McMullen
Labour Hire Consultant
Coordinates labour hire placements across construction and trades, matching job-ready workers to client sites and keeping crews inducted, compliant, and on time.
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Rory McEvoy
Labour Hire Consultant
Labour hire consultant across building & construction and civil. Focused on building a reliable, repeat pool of tradespeople clients can count on shift after shift.
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Billy Wood
Labour Hire Consultant
Places skilled and general labour across construction and civil sites, with a focus on responsiveness and getting the right worker on site first time.
Permanent Recruitment
Specialist Recruiters, Not Generalists
Every permanent consultant runs a defined desk: build, building services, civil, manufacturing, and more, building deep market knowledge and stronger relationships with the hiring managers they place for.
Murray Webb
GM Australia/NZ — Manufacturing & Industrial
Leads permanent industrial recruitment across Australia and New Zealand, covering manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing. Brings strong candidate relationships and deep supply-chain workforce expertise.
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Jack Strodder
Recruitment Consultant — Build Team
A through-and-through permanent recruiter heading up the Build Team. Places contract administrators, project managers, construction managers, and white-collar supervisors across commercial construction and fit-out.
Charlie Charlesworth
Recruitment Consultant
Places permanent staff across civil infrastructure and traffic management, from site-based supervisors to office-based coordinators, for metro and regional projects.
Ed Sturrock
Recruitment Consultant
Permanent recruitment consultant across construction and building services, placing project, site, and commercial staff for tier 1 and tier 2 contractors.
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Bethany Pearson
Recruitment Consultant
Recruits permanent professionals across construction and manufacturing: sourcing, screening, and placing candidates who deliver long-term value to the businesses that hire them.
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Bailey Costello
Recruitment Consultant
Permanent recruitment consultant focused on construction and building services roles, from engineering through to commercial and site management.
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Bryson Lam
Recruitment Consultant
Recruits permanent talent across construction and manufacturing disciplines, matching technical skills and cultural fit for placements that last.
Business Development
Growing the Pipeline
Our BDMs open doors and build the client relationships that keep the recruitment team busy.
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Sam Harrison
Group Business Development Manager
Owns new-client partnerships across HBG. First point of contact for businesses setting up a labour-hire, permanent or managed-payroll account. Matches your project to the right specialist desk and gets you set up for success.
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Jerry Macasaet
Business Development Manager
Drives new client acquisition and builds long-term partnerships across construction and trades. Focused on understanding client needs and matching them with HBG’s service offering.
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Jo Vanessa Cayabyab
Business Development Manager
Develops client relationships across manufacturing, logistics, and emerging sectors. Works closely with the recruitment team to ensure a seamless handover from pipeline to placement.
Admin Support
Keeping It All Together
The admin team handles the detail work that makes everything else possible, from onboarding paperwork to compliance filing.
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Jenne Andojar
Database Management
Manages HBG’s candidate database, supports onboarding paperwork, compliance filing, and general office administration. Ensures nothing falls through the cracks across all offices.
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Mila Mae Velasco
Payroll & Admin Support
Provides payroll coordination and day-to-day administrative support across the business. Handles scheduling, document preparation, and internal coordination to keep the team running smoothly.
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Melody Vilan
Admin Support
Provides administrative and coordination support across the business: document preparation, onboarding, and keeping the team's day-to-day running smoothly.
Our Partners
Valued Partners
We work alongside trusted industry partners to deliver seamless payroll, compliance, and workforce management solutions.
JWHB Payroll
Managed Payroll Solutions
APositive
Workforce Technology
Astute Payroll
Payroll Services
EBA Labour Hire
Labour Hire Services
NCI
Trade Credit Insurance
NCW ICC
Compliance & Certification
HBG Indigenous Labour Hire
Indigenous Workforce Solutions
Our Culture
Built by Recruiters, for Recruiters
HBG doesn’t operate like a traditional recruitment agency. There are no layers of middle management, no KPI spreadsheets that value activity over outcomes, and no account managers who have never filled a role.
Every person on the team is a specialist in their sector. They run their own desk, build their own relationships, and are rewarded directly for the results they deliver, with uncapped commission up to 50% and genuine autonomy over how they work.
The Managing Director still recruits every day. That sets the tone for the entire business: leadership is earned by doing the work, not by delegating it. When you call HBG, you speak to someone who understands your industry because they recruit in it, not someone reading from a script.