Overview

We are recruiting for a People Business Partner to join our People team.

You will have a visible presence across sites and offices, providing advice, coaching, and challenge to managers.

• Up to £45k, plus a £6k car allowance or company car. There’s never been a more exciting time to join us. With increasing investment in water, wastewater, and environmental infrastructure, we’re growing fast - and we’re looking for passionate people to grow with us.

What you'll be doing

You will be accountable for driving key people performance indicators, promoting a positive culture, resolving issues through early intervention, and enabling managers to confidently lead their teams in line with company values, policies, and employment legislation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with operational leaders across multiple regions, and where required subsidiary businesses within the Group, providing commercially focused people support.
• Build strong working relationships with managers, acting as a trusted advisor whilst constructively influencing decision-making and promoting best practice people management.
• Drive proactive early intervention to resolve people issues before they escalate into formal employee relations matters.
• Manage a varied employee relations caseload, ensuring fair, consistent and legally compliant outcomes.
• Develop and implement regional action plans to deliver key People KPIs, including but not limited to: Employee retention, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), Absence management, Probation success rates, Development discussion completion and Conduct and employee relations measures.
• Support managers to improve leadership capability through coaching, guidance and management development initiatives.
• Lead employee engagement activities, analysing feedback and developing action plans to improve engagement and employee experience.
• Support reward, recognition and employee benefits initiatives to enhance attraction and retention.
• Work collaboratively with Recruitment, Talent, Training, Payroll, SHWEQ and other support functions to deliver integrated people solutions.
• Support the delivery of training programmes, including facilitating monthly sessions within the Stonbury Academy and presenting at operational stand-down days.
• Facilitate Occupational Health processes, including safety critical medicals, health surveillance programmes and management referrals.
• Undertake own administration where required, including preparing letters, reports, meeting notes, communications and maintaining accurate People records, supported by a People Administration colleague.
• Support the Head of People with functional planning and strategic initiatives.