Senior HR Business Partner (Construction)

Location: Any UK&I office; based from a UK&I office.

Company

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

What you will do

• Partner with the Segment HR Director and senior operational leaders to shape and deliver a commercially focused segment People Plan aligned with divisional strategy and operational priorities.
• Lead workforce planning using project forecasts, workforce data, and labour-market insight to identify headcount requirements, critical roles, skills gaps, succession risks, and capacity constraints.
• Drive talent, succession, performance, capability, and leadership-development processes in partnership with Learning and Development, Talent, and operational leaders.
• Coach and influence senior leaders to build an inclusive, values-led, high-performing culture across geographically dispersed and site-based teams.
• Support organisational and cultural change while championing inclusion, wellbeing, responsible leadership, and fair decision-making.
• Provide strategic oversight of people risk, complex employee relations, employment legislation, governance, ethical decision-making, and trade-union or works-council relationships where applicable.

Requirements

• Significant HR Business Partner experience in a complex, multi-site, operational, or project-led environment. Experience in construction, infrastructure, engineering, utilities, or manufacturing is preferred.
• Strong experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing people strategy at segment, sector, or business-unit level.
• Demonstrable experience of 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 expected.
• Strategic and commercial thinking, with the ability to translate operational priorities into people plans.
• Strong influencing, coaching, challenge, change-leadership, judgement, ethical-practice, and ambiguity-management skills.
• Ability to collaborate with Centres of Excellence, People Operations, Reward, Talent, Resourcing, Finance, Legal, and operational leadership teams.
• Proven ability to lead, manage, support, and develop an HR Business Partner team and build a high-performing, resilient, collaborative, skilled, and engaged team.

Culture & Benefits

• Family-friendly policies and a flexible benefits pot.
• 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.
• Inclusive environment focused on sustainability, wellbeing, responsible leadership, and equal opportunity.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted until 30 October 2026.
• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment and onboarding process.
• An informal conversation about the opportunity is available with the Recruitment Manager.