People Business Partner
8 days ago
Beverley
Overview \n We are recruiting for a People Business Partner to join our People team. \n \n You will have a visible presence across sites and offices, providing advice, coaching, and challenge to managers. \n \n\n • Up to £45k, plus a £6k car allowance or company car.\n\n \n 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. \n \n What you'll be doing \n \n 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. \n \n Duties and Responsibilities \n\n • Partner with operational leaders across multiple regions, and where required subsidiary businesses within the Group, providing commercially focused people support.\n, • Build strong working relationships with managers, acting as a trusted advisor whilst constructively influencing decision-making and promoting best practice people management.\n, • Drive proactive early intervention to resolve people issues before they escalate into formal employee relations matters.\n, • Manage a varied employee relations caseload, ensuring fair, consistent and legally compliant outcomes.\n, • 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\n, • Support managers to improve leadership capability through coaching, guidance and management development initiatives.\n, • Lead employee engagement activities, analysing feedback and developing action plans to improve engagement and employee experience.\n, • Support reward, recognition and employee benefits initiatives to enhance attraction and retention.\n, • Work collaboratively with Recruitment, Talent, Training, Payroll, SHWEQ and other support functions to deliver integrated people solutions.\n, • Support the delivery of training programmes, including facilitating monthly sessions within the Stonbury Academy and presenting at operational stand-down days.\n, • Facilitate Occupational Health processes, including safety critical medicals, health surveillance programmes and management referrals.\n, • Undertake own administration where required, including preparing letters, reports, meeting notes, communications and maintaining accurate People records, supported by a People Administration colleague.\n, • Support the Head of People with functional planning and strategic initiatives.\n\n \n Who we're looking for \n \n\n • CIPD Level 5 qualification or above (Level 7 desirable), or equivalent professional experience.\n, • Experience in a People Business Partner or Senior HR Advisor role within a fast-paced operational environment. Or ready to embrace the challenge and take the step up.\n, • Strong working knowledge of UK employment legislation and employee relations.\n, • Experience partnering with operational management teams across multiple locations.\n, • Proven ability to influence, coach and challenge managers to achieve positive people outcomes.\n, • Experience managing high-volume employee relations casework.\n, • Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance business objectives and employee wellbeing.\n, • Experience using people data and KPIs to identify trends and develop measurable action plans.\n, • Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.\n, • Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands.\n, • Confident using HR systems and Microsoft Office applications.\n, • Full UK driving licence with willingness to travel extensively across operational locations.\n\n \n \n What we're offering \n \n Holidays \n\n • You will receive 24 days’ paid holiday per annum, rising to 25 after two years’ service.\n, • Options to buy five extra days using the Holiday Scheme.\n, • Volunteering day - up to two days per year to contribute to our local communities.\n, • Enhanced occupational maternity leave policy.\n\n \n Finance / Rewards \n\n • £45k, plus a £6k car allowance or company car\n, • Pension – You will receive a 6% company pension contribution.\n, • Life Assurance.\n, • Income protection\n, • Car or car allowance for all roles that require significant travel.\n, • Benifex Platform - including the Technology Scheme, Dental Plan, and the Bike Scheme\n\n \n \n Health and Wellbeing \n\n • Private Medical Insurance\n, • Eyecare Scheme\n\n \n Our Vision - To be the best water and environment sustainability specialist. \n