Balfour Beatty plc
HR Manager - Hinkley Point C
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About The Role
Our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick business is looking for a HR Manager to play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects, Hinkley Point C. Working closely with senior project leaders, you’ll act as a trusted HR partner, ensuring people strategies, workforce plans and talent initiatives are aligned to key project milestones and business objectives.
As a key member of the people team, you’ll help shape a high-performing and inclusive culture by driving employee engagement, talent management, workforce planning and organisational development activities across a complex alliance environment. You’ll provide expert guidance to leaders, influence decision-making through workforce insights, and ensure robust governance processes are in place to support effective people management.
Location: Flexible UK base with regular travel to Bridgwater, Somerset
What you'll be doing
- Partner with project leaders to deliver people plans that support business objectives and project milestones.
- Build strong relationships across alliance partners, HR teams and specialist centres of expertise.
- Lead workforce planning activities in collaboration with operational and project stakeholders.
- Oversee governance for recruitment and resourcing decisions, ensuring compliance with project requirements.
- Provide coaching and expert HR advice to leaders on employee relations, performance and people matters.
- Drive talent management, employee engagement and organisational development initiatives across the project.
- Analyse workforce data and produce insights that support effective decision-making and project performance.
- Manage project-specific approvals, people governance processes and HR system changes.
- Champion high-performance working by supporting leaders to consistently apply performance and development practices.
- Lead Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and help foster an inclusive and collaborative working environment.
- Partner with the Work Winning Director and wider business teams to support work-winning activity.
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Who we're looking for
- Proven experience partnering with senior leadership teams to deliver people strategies and business objectives.
- Strong track record of operating within complex, matrix organisations and diverse workforces.
- Experience leading or supporting organisational change and cultural transformation initiatives.
- Trusted HR professional with the ability to coach, influence and challenge constructively.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how people initiatives support business performance.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Sound knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practice.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using HR systems and data to drive insight and decision-making.
- Well organised, proactive and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick is a leader in mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions.
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We design, install and maintain the complex systems and technologies that underpin the UK’s national infrastructure and bring buildings to life.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
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