Senior HR Business Partner - Construction and FM

Location: Any UK & Ireland office

Company

hirify.global is a major European construction company that engineers infrastructure and constructs buildings, with a mission focused on sustainable development.

What you will do

• Shape and deliver the segment People Plan with the Segment HR Director and senior operational leaders, aligning people priorities with divisional strategy, commercial objectives, project pipelines, and operational delivery.
• Act as a strategic adviser, constructive challenger, and senior People Business Partner to executive and senior leaders, including providing deputy support to the HR Director.
• Lead workforce planning, using project forecasts, workforce data, and labour-market insight to identify headcount requirements, skills gaps, succession risks, and capacity constraints.
• Drive talent, succession, performance, development, organisational change, leadership capability, engagement, inclusion, wellbeing, and employee-experience initiatives.
• Provide strategic oversight of people risk, employment legislation, governance, employee relations, and industrial relations, working with Legal, Compliance, Employee Relations, trade unions, works councils, and operational leaders.
• Lead, manage, support, and develop the HR Business Partner team, building a high-performing, resilient, collaborative, skilled, and respected function.

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 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.
• 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 stakeholder-management skills, with confidence operating in ambiguity and complexity.
• Ability to work effectively with Centres of Expertise, People Operations, Reward, Talent, Resourcing, Finance, Legal, and operational leadership teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work from any UK and Ireland office in a geographically dispersed and site-based environment.
• Family-friendly policies, flexible benefits, and support for wellbeing and work-life balance.
• 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 workplace focused on responsible leadership, fairness, and respect.

Hiring process

• Applications close on 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.