HR Business Partner (Construction)

Location: Warrington, Cheshire, England; hybrid with 3 days per week in the office or on site and 2 days remote. Regular travel to project sites across the North of England and Northern Ireland, with occasional travel to Dublin and London.

Salary: £52,000–£65,000 per year depending on experience, plus a £5,940 car allowance.

Company

Family-owned construction and engineering business operating across the UK and Ireland for more than 160 years, employing around 2,500 people plus contractors and delivering complex infrastructure and civil engineering projects.

What you will do

• Partner with Infrastructure leaders, project directors, site management and line managers across a business unit of around 300 employees.
• Advise and coach managers on employee relations cases, including disciplinaries, grievances, capability, absence management and appeals.
• Support organisational design, restructures, change programmes, consultation processes, TUPE and workforce planning as projects mobilise, ramp up and demobilise.
• Support performance management, succession planning, talent pipelines, engagement initiatives and practical action plans from survey findings.
• Partner with Reward, Recruitment, Learning & Development and HR Operations on pay reviews, talent, development, data and contractual changes.
• Apply and develop HR policies, monitor employment legislation, use HR metrics and help build an inclusive, safe and positive culture across office and site teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or senior HR Advisor in a generalist, business-facing role.
• Strong experience building effective relationships with senior stakeholders and influencing, challenging and advising them when required.
• Solid employee relations experience and sound working knowledge of UK employment law.
• Experience in an organisation of similar size and complexity with a significant employee base.
• Pragmatic, commercially aware approach balancing business needs with fairness and compliance.
• Comfort working across several locations, including site environments.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly.

Nice to have

• Experience in construction, infrastructure, engineering or another project-based industry.
• Experience supporting a dispersed or site-based workforce.
• Knowledge of Northern Ireland employment law.
• CIPD Level 5 or 7 qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting organisational change and TUPE.

Culture & Benefits

• Established, collaborative UK and Ireland HR function of around 40 people.
• Hybrid working pattern with flexibility to meet business needs and regular site travel.
• Employer pension contribution of 5% by default, or 6% with the alternative employee contribution option.
• 26 days’ annual leave, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days.
• Early Finish Fridays at 3:30pm.

Hiring process

• Contact Imogen Parr for more information and apply through the vacancy application route.