Senior People Advisor

Laing O'Rourke; Dartford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Laing O'Rourke is seeking an experienced People Advisor for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role covers sites nationwide, including Birmingham, Dartford, London and other locations. You will partner with leadership to drive performance, manage change and help the business thrive.

As a trusted advisor, you will provide guidance on employee relations, workforce planning and data-driven insights, while ensuring compliance with legislation and Laing O'Rourke values.

Qualifications

• Qualified CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience delivering HR business partnering services in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practice with commercial application.
• Experience supporting organisational change, workforce planning and talent initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to analyse data and translate insight into business actions.

Responsibilities

• Coach, support and challenge leaders to effectively lead, motivate and develop their teams.
• Drive a high-performance culture through the consistent application of people policies, processes and best practice.
• Partner with the business to identify and manage people-related risks while supporting the delivery of business objectives.
• Provide expert guidance on employee relations matters, organisational change and workforce planning.
• Support business planning and change programmes through the provision of accurate, timely and meaningful people data and insights.
• Collaborate with recruitment teams to develop workforce plans that balance external hiring with internal mobility, career development and diversity objectives.
• Lead talent and succession planning activities, ensuring high-potential employees are identified, developed and supported.
• Ensure all people activities are delivered in line with legislation, governance requirements and Laing O'Rourke values.

Skills

HR business partnering

Employment law knowledge

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Change management

Education

CIPD Level 5 or equivalent

Job description

Fixed Term Contract – 12 months

Fixed Term Contract – 12 months Location: This is a National role, covering Head offices and projects in Birmingham, Dartford, London, Manchester, National, Nottingham, St Neots

At Laing O'Rourke, we know that exceptional projects are delivered by exceptional people.

We’re looking for a People Adviosor to join our team, partnering with business leaders to drive performance, support organisational change and create an environment where our people can thrive!

As a trusted advisor to leaders across the business, you’ll provide expert people guidance, coaching and support, ensuring our people strategies, policies and processes are delivered consistently and effectively.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Coach, support and challenge leaders to effectively lead, motivate and develop their teams.
• Drive a high-performance culture through the consistent application of people policies, processes and best practice.
• Partner with the business to identify and manage people-related risks while supporting the delivery of business objectives.
• Provide expert guidance on employee relations matters, organisational change and workforce planning.
• Support business planning and change programmes through the provision of accurate, timely and meaningful people data and insights.
• Collaborate with recruitment teams to develop workforce plans that balance external hiring with internal mobility, career development and diversity objectives.
• Lead talent and succession planning activities, ensuring high-potential employees are identified, developed and supported.
• Ensure all people activities are delivered in line with legislation, governance requirements and Laing O'Rourke values.

About You

You’ll be an experienced HR professional who combines strong business partnering capability with a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach.

Essential

• CIPD Level 5 qualified (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience delivering HR business partnering services within a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practice, with the ability to apply this commercially and pragmatically.
• Experience supporting organisational change, workforce planning and talent initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to analyse data and translate insight into meaningful business actions.

You’ll Stand Out If You Have

• Experience partnering with operational or project-based teams.
• Experience working across geographically dispersed workforces.
• A track record of supporting business transformation and cultural change initiatives

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.