HR Business Partner - North

MWH Treatment; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment is seeking a dedicated HR Business Partner for the North region. This role focuses on aligning HR practices with business needs, offering guidance on talent management, learning & development, and coaching leaders. Applicants should possess strong interpersonal skills and extensive HR experience, particularly in supporting operational HR functions and influencing stakeholders. The position is aimed at candidates looking to make a significant impact within a high-performing team culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Contribution Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health and Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Discounts and savings Hub

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior HR Advisor or HR Business Partner.
• Extensive HR advisory/partnering experience.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop/support approaches achieving organisational objectives.
• Implement people plan and coach managers.
• Manage employee relations issues as needed.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Influencing skills

Problem analysis

Education

CIPD qualified

High level of educational achievement

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

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MWH treatment is a highly successful business, we are continually looking for talented individuals to join us. An opportunity has arisen for a HR Business Partner to join the team covering our regions based in the North - ESD, United Utilities, Hattersley and Northern Ireland. You will partner and offer extensive support to the business in all aspects of HR, focussing on succession & talent, learning & development, coaching and delivering our People Plan within your region.

You will be responsible for supporting the development and deployment of the People Plan and offer extensive support to the business in all aspects of HR focussing on succession & talent, learning & development and coaching

Key Responsibilities

• Develop/support approaches that achieve shared organisational objectives
• Working with the central teams to design and implement key initiatives relating to areas such as talent, performance management, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing.
• In partnership with managers take ownership of implementing the people plan.
• Coaching Managers and individuals.
• Maintain positive relationships with the central HR functions.
• Supporting the HR service team to manage employee relations issues when required.
• Take an active role in future talent processes such as graduate recruitment.
• Undertake and lead HR project work as identified
• Work closely with the L&D team to provide support in the co-ordination of training & development for managers and their teams in line with performance management tools.
• Work with L&D team to ensure key deliverables are met, monitored and reported.
• Meet regularly with the Head of People to ensure the consistency and alignment of all HR processes and strategies (globally and locally).
• Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
  
  

You will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong influencing skills a flexible approach, pro-active self-starter, action orientated, resilient with a can-do attitude.

Key Relationships

• Head of People
• Business Area Senior Leaders
• HR team
  
  

Competencies

• Relationship development
• Excellent customer focus
• Resilience and drive
• Works with others to deliver results
• Takes personal responsibility to deliver results
• Problem analysis
• Communication and stakeholder management
  
  

About You

You will either have experience as a Senior HR Advisor looking to utilise your skills and grow into an operational HR Business Partner position or you will be a successful HR Business partner looking to be integral to a high performing HR team. Essential

• Ability to build and maintain core business relationships with key stakeholders
• Extensive senior Advisory/Partnering experience within a professional Human Resources function
• High level of educational achievement
• Extensive experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures
• Knowledge of employment law principles Excellent Microsoft skills; to include minimum intermediate level excel and word Fully CIPD qualified, preferably Chartered
• You will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong influencing skills a flexible approach, pro-active self-starter, action orientated, resilient with a can-do attitude
  
  

Desirable

• Understanding and experience of manpower planning, resourcing. benchmarking and metric delivery
• Experience in an Engineering / Construction environment
  
  

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed.Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace.We don’t just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include -

A competitive salary

Hybrid Working(Jobs needs dependent)

Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)

Contribution Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Construction

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