Senior HR Business Partner (Infrastructure & Ground Engineering)

Location: Any UK&I office, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a large European construction company engineering vital infrastructure and constructing high-quality buildings.

What you will do

• Shape and deliver the Infrastructure and Ground Engineering segment People Plan with senior leaders, aligning people priorities with divisional strategy, commercial objectives, project pipelines, and operational delivery.
• Provide strategic HR business partnering, trusted advice, constructive challenge, and deputy support to the Infrastructure HR Director and segment leadership.
• Lead workforce planning, identifying future headcount needs, critical roles, skills gaps, succession risks, and capacity constraints using workforce data, project forecasts, and labour market insight.
• Drive talent, succession, performance, development, leadership capability, engagement, culture, wellbeing, inclusion, and organisational change initiatives.
• Provide oversight of people risk, employment legislation, governance, employee relations, industrial relations, and complex or high-risk cases in partnership with Legal, Compliance, Employee Relations, and operational leaders.
• Lead, manage, support, and develop the HR Business Partner team while collaborating with Centres of Expertise, People Operations, Reward, Talent, Resourcing, Finance, Legal, and operational leadership.

Requirements

• Significant HR Business Partner experience in a complex, multi-site, operational, or project-led environment; construction, infrastructure, engineering, utilities, or manufacturing experience is preferred.
• Strong experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing people strategy at segment, sector, or business-unit level.
• Demonstrable experience in workforce planning, talent, succession, organisational change, leadership capability, and complex employee relations oversight.
• Experience using workforce analytics and engagement insight to inform evidence-based decisions.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent professional experience.
• Strategic and commercial thinking, with the ability to translate operational priorities into people plans.
• Strong influencing, coaching, challenge, change leadership, judgement, ethical practice, collaboration, and decision-making skills in ambiguous and complex situations.
• Ability to lead and develop a high-performing, resilient, collaborative, skilled, engaged, and respected HR Business Partner team.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, values-led environment focused on sustainable infrastructure and construction.
• Family-friendly policies and flexible benefits.
• 8% matched pension contributions, private healthcare, and life assurance.
• 26 days of holiday, two wellbeing days, and one volunteering day.
• Personal and professional development opportunities.

Hiring process

• Applications close on 30 October 2026.
• Informal conversations about the opportunity are available with the Recruitment Manager.
• Reasonable adjustments can be requested during recruitment and onboarding.