Hr Coordinator jobs in United Kingdom

VolkerFitzpatrick offers a range and depth of civil engineering, infrastructure and building services. We contribute to vital parts of the nation's life through projects of strategic importance, while delivering those less visible, yet essential, works required by both private and public sectors. We build, renew, maintain highways, airports, railway infrastructure, and commercial, industrial and educational buildings.

We have an exciting opportunity for a HR Advisor to join our talented HR project team. Reporting to our HR Manager, you will be core in partnering with our managers to provide full spectrum HR advice (heavily focused on Employee Relations) and guidance in accordance with legislation and best practice.

The role

• Provide comprehensive advice and working with managers and on managing employee relations matters such as staff under performance, grievance, disciplinary, and redundancy.
• Support the HR managers in handling a high-volume ER caseload. Offer advice on ER issues and ensure cases are handled consistently and in line with legislative requirements.
• Lead on complex ER cases and appeals.
• Take ownership for the development and maintenance of HR policies and procedures in line with present legislative updates.
• Act as back up to provide support to other areas of the team, including payroll where required.
• Deliver and support our HR managers on people initiatives or projects.

About our project

We provide integrated and ground-breaking solutions for the civil engineering and construction sectors, with specialisms in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

We are recruiting for an ICT Support Analyst (2nd line) to join one of our major projects, the Southern Renewals Enterprise (SRE) project based in Blackfriars, with travel across our sites in Kent, Croydon and Sussex. Reporting into our ICT Delivery Manager, you will be supporting with mainly 2nd line but some first line support to our project user base of over 1400+ based over 5+ sites.

This role will be based at our Blackfriars project site office with travel across our site (Kent, South London and Sussex) - Permanent.

This role will support VolkerFitzpatrick working on the Southern Renewals Enterprise. The project will total 5+5 years of renewals across Network Rail's 'Southern' route in Kent, Wessex & Sussex.

About you

You will have demonstrable experience of working at a similar HR advisory level (ideally hold a CIPD level 5) with experience from full spectrum ER, coaching and training stakeholders to delivering HR projects. You'll have strong communication skills, be resilient, be a strong collaborator and relationship builder with effective stakeholder management skills.

If your past experience doesn't match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.

Why work with us?

VolkerFitzpatrick is under the umbrella of VolkerWessels UK which is a multidisciplinary contractor that delivers innovative engineering solutions across the civil engineering and construction sectors including rail, highways, airport, marine, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

By utilising the specialist skills of each business unit within VolkerWessels UK, VolkerFitzpatrick are able to ensure our staff provide unrivalled resources and expertise to our clients.

We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.

We offer a range of benefits, including:

• Competitive salary
• Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
• Option to buy additional annual leave
• Private medical care
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
• Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
• Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mental health, physical health, and financial support
• 24/7 Virtual GP service

Fairness, inclusion and respect

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.

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Additional information

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.

We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed

VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.