HRE60016 - ER Advisor

EDF Energy Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking an ER Advisor to lead employee relations on the MEH project. You will work with unions, manage grievances, and ensure compliance with employment regulations while coordinating with the client Employment Affairs Unit.

The role also involves delivering training and reporting metrics to management on IR matters. You will need a degree (or equivalent) and CIPD qualification, with a proven track record in nuclear or regulated sectors and the ability to obtain BPSS security

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification – CIPD preferred
• Proven track record on large projects in regulated sectors (nuclear or EPC)
• Ability to obtain security clearance (BPSS or higher)

Responsibilities

• Maintain a positive employee relations culture across the MEH project through proactive consultation with unions
• Lead MEH external discussions on sector agreements and social covenant
• Ensure MEH complies with employment regulations and policies
• Monitor legal changes and keep policies compliant
• Liaise with client Employment Affairs Unit regularly
• Engage with delivery partners and unions on workforce issues and grievances
• Coordinate IR Crisis Delivery Plan and development training for the ER team
• Support discipline and grievance cases and investigations as needed
• Provide reports and metrics to management and foster safety culture on site

Skills

Communication

Leadership

IR expertise

Stakeholder management

Public sector liaison

Education

Degree or equivalent

CIPD Qualified

Job description

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

Employing Company: Balfour Beatty

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

ER Advisor
Balfour Beatty

Accountabilities and Key Deliverables:

• Through proactive consultation with the recognised trade unions, maintain a positive culture of employee relations across the MEH project
• Take the lead for MEH in external discussions on the implementation and spirit and intent of the sector agreements and social covenant
• Ensure MEH complies with all the relevant employment regulations
• Monitor legal changes and ensure people policies are legally compliant
• Liaise with the client Employment Affairs Unit on a regular basis
• Facilitate effective engagement and liaison with delivery partners and trade unions on all individual workforce grievance & disciplinary issues
• Will act as the planner and coordinator for the IR Crisis Delivery Plan
• Arrange supervisors and managers development training in employee relations and behaviours
• Ensure constant development and employment legislation training takes place for the ER Team
• Support the ER Team on discipline and grievance cases and investigations
• Support complex individual disciplinary and grievance cases
• Provide reports and metrics to management team
• Lead and foster a positive Nuclear Safety Culture
• Role model safety behaviours and act as ambassador for MEH on site

Minimum Qualifications/Experience:

• Degree or equivalent
• Relevant Professional Qualification – preferably CIPD Qualified
• Proven track record in large scale projects in the nuclear or similar regulated sector, including major EPC projects
• Can achieve security clearance (BPSS or higher)

Additional Qualifications/Experience:

• Proven track record of success in the nuclear or similar regulated sector, including working on major construction projects
• Effective communicator, experienced in delivering and operating at a leadership Level
• Strong leader, experienced with dealing with a breadth of IR issues, liaising with trade union officials at all levels with a positive, “can do” mentality and the ability to reach sensible compromise positions
• Politically aware – understands the multi stakeholder context in which the role operates and manifests a collaborative approach
• Good client/external body facing experience with excellent working knowledge of the relevant training and funding organisations

MEH Values attributed behaviours:

• Demonstrates Humility through sharing success as a team
• Demonstrates Positivity through always striving for solutions
• Demonstrates Respect through valuing other points of view
• Demonstrates Clarity through sharing information simply and concisely
• Demonstrates Solidarity through adopting a “One Team” MEH approach

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home‑grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low‑carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low‑carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind‑boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.