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We're looking for an HR Business Partner to join our Infrastructure Major Projects Team at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Within this role you can enjoy 26 days annual leave, sharesave scheme, family friendly policies and even more.

Location: Waterbeach / Remote
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Competitive + Benefits

Responsibilities

As a HR Business Partner, you'll be working within the Infrastructure team to to support the Infrastructure business stream through delivery of key People, Culture and Wellbeing projects. Taking personal accountability for leading HR projects and initiatives to deliver Performance Centred Leadership, meet HR plans and ensure that there is a strong culture of engagement.

The role will work closely with HR Business Partners, Assistant Business Partners, and the L&D team, in addition to a broad range of business stakeholders. It will involve national travel to Infrastructure projects/offices throughout the UK.

Your day to day as a HR Business Partner will include:

• Lead HR projects and initiatives within the business stream as required to ensure delivery of the HR plan. Project management will include developing project plans, toolkits, communication plans, training materials, reporting requirements, stakeholder briefings and reports.
• Responsible for project managing, driving, and executing regular/annual cycles of activity including
• Being pro-active in communicating key HR activities and processes to all mangers and staff, including running briefing sessions; upskilling Line Managers to ensure they understand process and can be more effective people managers; and working collaboratively to share best practice across the business
• Working closely with the HRBP (Learning and Development), to provide appropriate support to the early careers programmes through their lifecycle including apprentices, trainees, undergraduates, and graduates
• Drive Diversity & Inclusion through the business, working with HR Director and D&I Business Lead to implement the D&I Action Plan;
  

Who are we looking for?

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

• Able to build relationships at all levels and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to work proactively on own initiative, to tight deadlines in fast paced environment
• Highly collaborative working style
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to build external networks for sharing of best practice
• HR operational experience with good working knowledge of HR policies and procedures
• Commercial awareness and business understanding

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communitiesto get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at [email protected] to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

• new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more.
• professional subscription - you will get one professional subscription funded to support your professional development.
• pension - you will be able to join the Kier Retirement Savings Plan (KRSP)
• Kier rewards - You will have access to discounted shopping including restaurants, insurance companies, and supermarkets.
• employee referral scheme - refer a friend or family member to work for Kier

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We’re made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing Date: 24th February 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.