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People Advisor

January 13, 2023 | Comments Off on People Advisor

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People Advisor

Dartford or Manchester with a requirement to cover nationally

The Opportunity:

Are you a proactive HR professional? Do you enjoy being at the forefront of operational HR? Do you thrive in a strong team?

We are looking for a People Advisor to join our team! The role will have responsibility for a portfolio of projects with regular travel expected across the UK.

Ensuring that we put the customer at the heart of everything we do by using our customer knowledge, insight and experience to deliver what is best for the business to be industry leading and ultimately drive success. This is a new role which forms part of an operational People team responsible for delivering the People Strategy for the Building Business Unit.

What will the role look like?

  • Provides timely, professional and commercially minded people management advice, on the full range of people matters, during the employee life cycle, to line managers to facilitate the achievement of LOR's business goals; liaising with key stakeholders as necessary.
  • Working closely with the Resourcing Team and stakeholders to manage recruitment requirements for the relevant business area, by pro-actively highlighting needs. Utilising and developing the resource system reporting tool to oversee resource analytics.
  • Facilitates internal resourcing and the mobilization and demobilizations of personnel from projects to support operational performance, staff retention and the mitigation of risks and costs.
  • Support the People Team with driving an increase in colleague engagement across the business area; accountability for ensuring analysis and insights from engagement survey results are shared with the People Lead and relevant stakeholders and that actions taken and implemented accordingly.
  • Support the People Leads / Senior People Advisors with overall Talent Management process including the organisation of talent reviews and development of actions plans
  • Monitor key metrics across business with an ability to review people analytics and make sound recommendations to the People Leads
  • Provide timely reports as and when required with ability to understand key metrics and business requirement.
  • Ensures new People initiatives are effectively implemented within area of responsibility.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

  • Achieved or working towards Level 5 - Intermediate Qualification (CIPD) desirable
  • Expertise in Employment Law
  • Working towards professional CIPD membership desirable
  • Systems thinking - comprehensive understanding of HC systems, policies and processes, and their impact on the business
  • Awareness and desire to understand HR appropriate digital skills and how the team can integrated these skills.
  • Ability to work independently without close direction
  • Employment law - understanding the range of people practices needed to be an effective people professional

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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