Assistant HR Business Partner

Kier Construction; Glastonbury; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading construction company as an Assistant HR Business Partner in Glastonbury, supporting the Transportation team. You'll engage with employees, manage HR projects, and promote well-being. Enjoy hybrid working, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

24/7 virtual GP service

Competitive annual holiday entitlement

Opportunities to buy/sell leave

Qualifications

• Ensure understanding of business issues and HR value.
• Assist in grievances and disciplinary situations.
• Support HR Business Partner with key projects.

Responsibilities

• Partner with managers to resolve HR issues.
• Communicate HR activities to managers and staff.
• Assist in TUPE transfers and change management.

Skills

Employee Engagement

People Development

Talent Management

Education

CIPD qualified or equivalent HR experience

Job description

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We're looking for an Assistant HR Business Partner to join our Transportation team based in Glastonbury. This is aiding staff across our highly esteemed maintenance works contract supporting Somerset County Councils road network. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Glastonbury, Somerset – hybrid working available, with occasional travel to the offices across the country

Hours: Permanent, full time of 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday. We can offer some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As an Assistant HR Business Partner sitting under the banner of the Kier Transportation HR team, you will be ensuring a good understanding of business issues and how HR can add value on employee engagement, career management, talent management, people development as well as ensuring the wellbeing of our people.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Partnering with line managers and supervisors in the relevant contracts to resolve day to day issues and to implement good people management practices, setting high standards of service.
• To assist in supporting formal grievances and disciplinary situations – assessing risk, supporting line managers with investigations and liaising with relevant members of the divisional HR team and the central HR functions on complex matters.
• Support HR Business Partner with key business projects, restructure, TUPE transfers and change management.
• Being pro-active in communicating key HR activities and processes to all mangers and staff, including running briefing sessions.
  
  

What are we looking for?

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

• You are CIPD qualified or working towards accreditation or the equivalent in HR experience
• Knowledge and experience of delivering TUPE
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
  
  

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Construction

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