HR Business Partner

We're looking for a HR Business Partner to join our Kier Natural Resources team based in East Anglia.

Location: East Anglia - Hybrid working available with travel to sites and offices as required
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to partner with our Kier Natural Resources management team, where you'll play a key role in driving our people plan and supporting business strategy. You'll be at the heart of creating an innovative, effective and customer-focused service that makes a real difference to our teams and the business.

What will you be responsible for?

As a HR Business Partner, you'll be working within the Kier Natural Resources team, supporting them in delivering their people strategy and business objectives. Your day to day will include:

• Partnering with operational and functional leads as a trusted advisor, bringing people expertise and developing solutions to help deliver business strategy
• Managing employee relations activity and coordinating people matters related to contract mobilisation and demobilisation
• Using data, metrics and evidence to drive decision making and resolve complex people challenges
• Collaborating with managers and Talent Acquisition partners to develop hiring strategies and drive continuous improvements
• Championing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion throughout the business and coaching team members to reach their full potential

What are we looking for?

This role of HR Business Partner is great for you if:

• You're degree qualified (or qualified by experience) with demonstrable experience of business partnering in medium or large organisations
• You have strong employee engagement and employee relations skills with up to date knowledge of employment legislation
• You're highly collaborative with excellent communication skills and a personal desire to drive change
• You have strong relationship skills and can build influential relationships with senior stakeholders
• You're delivery focused and pragmatic, able to flex your approach to diverse audiences and business needs

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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