Employee Relations Advisor

Balfour Beatty plc; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Remote work up to 40% where role allow

25 days annual leave (pro rata)

Pension

Other employee benefits

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking an experienced Employee Relations Advisor to join the MEH Alliance team at Hinkley Point C. The role focuses on sustaining positive employee relations across the project through engagement with trade unions, delivery partners and stakeholders.

You will provide specialist support on complex ER matters, ensure regulatory compliance and promote a collaborative, safety-conscious work environment on site.

Qualifications

• A degree or equivalent qualification.
• A relevant professional qualification, preferably CIPD.
• Proven track record on large-scale projects within nuclear or similarly regulated sectors.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain positive relationships with recognised trade unions.
• Represent the MEH Alliance in external discussions around sector agreements and the social covenant.
• Help ensure compliance with employment legislation and regulations.
• Monitor legal developments and support maintenance of legally compliant people policies.
• Liaise regularly with the client Employment Affairs Unit.
• Advise on disciplinary, grievance and investigation matters, including complex cases.
• Plan and coordinate the Industrial Relations Crisis Delivery Plan.
• Arrange employee relations and behavioural development training for supervisors and managers.
• Provide employee relations reports and metrics to the management team.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication at leadership level

Industrial relations experience

Collaborative approach

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification

CIPD qualification

Job description

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Employee Relations Advisor to join the MEH Alliance team at Hinkley Point C.

This is an influential role focused on maintaining positive employee relations across the project through proactive engagement with recognised trade unions, delivery partners and key stakeholders.

You’ll provide specialist support on complex employee relations matters, help ensure compliance with employment legislation and promote a collaborative working environment across the project

What you'll be doing

• Build and maintain positive relationships with recognised trade unions.


• Represent the MEH Alliance in external discussions around sector agreements and the social covenant.


• Help ensure compliance with relevant employment legislation and regulations.


• Monitor legal developments and support the maintenance of legally compliant people policies.


• Liaise regularly with the client Employment Affairs Unit.


• Support effective engagement between delivery partners and trade unions.


• Advise on individual disciplinary, grievance and investigation matters, including complex cases.


• Plan and coordinate the Industrial Relations Crisis Delivery Plan.


• Arrange employee relations and behavioural development training for supervisors and managers.


• Support ongoing employment legislation training and development across the ER team.


• Provide relevant employee relations reports and metrics to the management team.


• Promote a positive nuclear safety culture and role-model appropriate safety behaviours on site.

Who we're looking for

• A degree or equivalent qualification.


• A relevant professional qualification, preferably CIPD.


• A proven track record of working on large-scale projects within nuclear or a similarly regulated sector, including major EPC projects.


• Strong experience of industrial relations issues and working with trade union officials at different levels.


• The ability to communicate effectively and operate at leadership level.


• A collaborative approach, with the ability to work within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.


• Strong client and external stakeholder management experience.


• A practical, solutions-focused approach and the ability to reach sensible compromise.


• The ability to achieve BPSS security clearance or higher.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

About us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.