Assistant HR Business Partner

September 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Assistant HR Business Partner

. We're looking for an Assistant HR Business Partner to join our Utilities team based in Rushden, Northamptonshire.

Within this role, you can enjoy exposure to exciting major projects, progression opportunities, support in obtaining further qualifications and even more.

Location: Rushden, Northamptonshire - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.

Contract: Permanent, full time - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know.

Salary: Competitive

Responsibilities
As an Assistant HR Business Partner, you'll be working within Utilities team, supporting them in to provide expert knowledge and skills in people management and development to influence and support the achievement of business strategy, goals and plans within a given business area. To implement and provide advice on policies, procedures, and practices to ensure employees are properly recruited, supported, and developed.

Your day to day will include:

  • Delivering an efficient operational HR service to assigned business unit.
  • Setting high standards of service.
  • Support employee relations activity; provide management with advice and support in disciplinary, grievance and appeal situations, including support in meetings and active case management
  • Working with the HR Team to develop and deliver HR initiatives to support the overall business strategy
Who are we looking for?
This role of Assistant HR Business Partner is great for you if:

  • Part CIPD qualified
  • You have working knowledge of employment law, HR policies and procedures and organisational restructuring
  • You are an HR operational professional with experience advising across a broad range of HR issues either in alliance or Joint Venture environment
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 communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk 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
  • Wide variety of savings and discounts at a huge range of your favourite shops and Restaurants
  • Access to 24/7 GP service, which is available to you and your immediate Household
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:

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:

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: 26th October 2022

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