Brilliantin Recruitment
Reward / Compensation Specialist – Field Workforce (3 month Contract - £600 - £1000 pd)
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Reward / Compensation Specialist – Field Workforce
Contract: Initial 3-month assignment
Engagement: Day Rate Contract or 3-Month Fixed Term
Day Rate: £600–£1,000 per day, depending on experience
Location: UK / Flexible
Start: ASAP
The Opportunity
We are supporting an organisation with a specialist project to design, model and validate a new compensation framework for its employed field engineering workforce.
This is not a traditional salary benchmarking or general reward review.
We are looking for an experienced Reward / Compensation Specialist who has genuinely designed and implemented complex productivity, performance and variable-pay models within field-based environments.
The project already has an established set of design principles. Your role will be to take these through detailed design, financial modelling and shadow validation, ultimately creating a robust and commercially sustainable compensation model ready for a controlled paid pilot.
Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
- Translating established compensation principles into a detailed and workable reward model
- Designing productivity and variable-pay mechanisms for an employed field engineering workforce
- Developing models incorporating Standard Hours, SMVs, SAMs or equivalent productivity methodologies
- Undertaking detailed financial modelling to understand organisational and employee-level impact
- Testing different performance, productivity and earnings scenarios
- Establishing appropriate thresholds, controls, safeguards and governance
- Conducting shadow testing / parallel running of the proposed compensation model
- Analysing outcomes and identifying unintended consequences or areas requiring adjustment
- Ensuring the model appropriately balances productivity and commercial performance with quality, safety, compliance, fairness and employee experience
- Working with key business stakeholders to challenge assumptions and validate the model
- Developing a clear framework and recommendations for progression into a controlled paid pilot
- Providing appropriate documentation, methodology and governance to enable future implementation
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Experience Required
We are particularly interested in speaking with specialists who can demonstrate direct experience of:
- Designing and implementing complex compensation or variable-pay models
- Reward structures for field engineering, field service or other distributed workforces
- Productivity-based compensation and performance measurement
- Standard Hours, Standard Minute Values (SMVs), Standard Allowed Minutes (SAMs) or comparable methodologies
- Detailed financial and employee-level reward modelling
- Shadow testing, parallel running or piloting new compensation arrangements
- Working within safety-critical, regulated or compliance-led environments
- Designing models that protect quality and safety while appropriately incentivising productivity
- Working with senior operational, finance, HR and reward stakeholders
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Sector Experience
Direct experience within heating, social housing or domestic field services would be particularly valuable.
We are equally interested in specialists from comparable field-based environments including:
- Utilities
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Telecoms
- Engineering
- Maintenance
- Field Services
The Profile
This assignment requires someone who can go significantly beyond reward theory.
You will ideally have previously taken a complex compensation or productivity model from concept and design through modelling, testing and implementation, and be comfortable challenging whether a proposed structure will genuinely work when applied to individual employees in a live operational environment.
The successful specialist will combine strong analytical and financial modelling capability with a practical understanding of field operations, employee behaviour and the potential consequences – intended and unintended – of changing how people are rewarded.
Assignment Outcome
The objective of the initial assignment is to deliver a fully designed, financially validated and operationally tested compensation model with sufficient evidence and governance to progress confidently into a controlled paid pilot.
Day Rate: £600–£1,000 per day, dependent upon relevant experience and track record.
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