HR Business Partner Kilsyth, Scotland
Job description
We have a vacancy for an HR Business Partner to join our team, supporting our business unit in Scotland, based in Kilsyth and with the opportunity to work flexibly in line with our policy.
As HR Business Partner, the role will see you partnering with our employees to deliver innovative and sustainable civil engineering projects in the UK. Reporting to the HR Director - Business Partnering of our Civils team within BAM, this is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional to join a forward thinking team. Duties covers the full range of HR activities from strategic advice and mentoring to complex case management, employee relations and talent management.
Role Skills - Technical
- Interpret project data from our employee engagement tool (Glint), providing feedback to the Sector and creating and implementing action plans to maximise participation and scoring in the survey. This will cover wellbeing, diversity and engagement initiatives in addition to upskilling managers, encouraging use of Perform & Develop Review system and increasing awareness of our competency framework and career opportunities.
- Specialist support to managers on ER issues, case management, investigating and resolving grievances/disciplinaries and complaints.
- Working with the business unit leadership team to support resourcing and recruitment to meet current and future workloads
- Advise managers on pay and reward, using our Compensation & Benefits centre of expertise for specialist guidance. Reviewing decisions to ensure fairness and inclusion and addressing the gender pay gap
- Working with managers on change programmes; including but not limited to BAM People system, updates, process changes, etc
- Performance management - working with managers to adopt a performance driven culture and to address poor performance
- Be commercially aware, understand forms of contract in civil engineering and their impact on operational HR and our wider people strategy
- Identify and develop talent, career and succession planning, supported by the Perform & Develop approach and being a champion for the process.
- Working with the Diversity & Inclusion team within BAM, and with the @BAM groups and sector leads, to identify appropriate objectives, create action plans and implement these. This will involve working with our external partners WISE, Equal Approach and other stakeholders.
- Managing redundancy programmes, and other severance processes, including coaching and upskilling managers in these areas.
Management Competencies
- Able to work to high standards and lead by example as a role model, identify strengths and areas of development in others. Mentor and support other members of the team.
- Emotional intelligence - coach others to deal with stressful situations, maintain morale in challenging times.
- Effective communication - make sure all attendees participate and outcomes of meeting are clear, build relationships with key stakeholders, understanding their objectives and working with them to achieve success. Able to resolve confrontations and disagreements constructively.
- Innovative in generating ideas, actioning solutions and demonstrating value. Stay up to date with latest thinking in HR, and new ideas and innovations that may benefit the company.
- Planning and organising - establish priorities to meet key targets, reactive and change plans when required.
- Examine and assess problems from different angles, assess outcomes and their impact on the business, engage key stakeholders in the process.
- Negotiating effectively, setting boundaries, and dealing confidently with opposition. Able to express complex ideas and situations in a concise, accurate way that is understandable for all parties.
- Working collaboratively, encouraging teamwork, valuing all opinions, sharing best practice across all teams.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes company car / allowance, matched pension contributions, private healthcare, life assurance, 26 days holiday, 2 wellbeing days and 1 volunteering day.
We actively support further personal, professional, technical and leadership development.
We are committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work-life balance.
The role is based at our Kilsyth office and will require travel to support business needs.
The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.
Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.
Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.
BAM Nuttall are committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.
