HR Compliance Manager (Construction)

Ardmac; Dublin; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ardmac, a leading construction specialist, seeks an HR Compliance Manager to lead day-to-day compliance across its EU operations, focusing on Ireland and the UK. The role requires ensuring mobilisation of employees, posted workers and subcontractors in line with applicable laws and project requirements.

You will act as the first escalation point for compliance issues, protect projects from delays and fines, and shape a scalable compliance function across Europe, supporting Ardmac's expansion.

Qualifications

• 10+ years HR experience, with 2+ years in construction.
• Experience with regulatory compliance across Europe.
• Understanding of employment registration, payroll and cross-border mobility.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day compliance delivery across Ardmac's EU operations, with coordination for Ireland and the UK.
• Ensure posted workers, subcontractors and supply chain partners are mobilised in compliance with legal and client requirements.
• Act as escalation point for operational compliance issues and mitigate delays, fines and reputational risk.
• Shape the compliance function across Europe, providing leadership and audit-ready processes.
• Support Ardmac's EU expansion with scalable compliance practices and documentation.

Skills

HR Compliance

Construction Sector

Regulatory Knowledge

Payroll Knowledge

Job description

Who we are

Ardmac is an award-winning international construction specialist that delivers complex high value workspaces and technical environments. We’ve been leading the way for over 40 years consistently providing the ultimate solution for high value working environments through our continuous investment into the best people, technology, and processes.

Join the team at Ardmac to gain experience in an environment of respect, professionalism and high collaboration teams. Competitive salaries and benefits packages are available as well as the opportunity to enhance learning and development for future growth.

About the Role

We are recruiting for HR Compliance Manager to lead day-to-day compliance delivery across Ardmac's EU operations, with coordination and support for Ireland and the UK. A key part of the the role is to ensure project mobilization is carried out in a compliant fashion. Construction sector experience is essential for this position.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead day-to-day compliance delivery across Ardmac's EU operations, with coordination and support for Ireland and the UK.
• Ensure employees, posted workers, subcontractors and supply chain partners are mobilised in compliance with applicable legal, client and project requirements before works commence.
• Act as the first point of escalation and decision-making for operational compliance issues.
• Protect Ardmac from project delays, site access issues, potential fines, payroll exposure and reputational risk.
• Shape the compliance activity across Europe, including providing leadership and support to colleagues involved.
• Support Ardmac's EU expansion by building a controlled, scalable and audit-ready compliance function.

Areas of Focus

Compliance and Reporting

• Develop and ensure maintenance of compliance trackers, risk registers, audit logs and action plans across active EU jurisdictions.
• Provide monthly compliance reporting covering risks, overdue actions, audits, open issues, and regulatory requests.
• Coordinate and control compliance standards across all active regions so that there is a consistent Ardmac approach even where local rules differ.
• Manage operational requirements for posted workers, cross-border assignments, secondments and temporary movement of labour across Europe.
• Ensure workers are not mobilised until the compliance route is confirmed and supporting documentation is in place or formally risk-assessed.

Country Specific Activity

• Build and maintain country compliance requirements for Ardmac’s active and developing European locations, including Spain, Finland, Norway, Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland and other jurisdictions
• Support Ireland and UK compliance activity by providing coordination, consistency, audit support and escalation where required.
• Identify where a new country / project requires legal, payroll, tax or employment advice and prepare the issue for advisor review.
• Ensure Ardmac remains audit ready for client reviews, main contractor checks, tax authorities, labour authorities, social security bodies and other regulators

Supply Chain Compliance

• Lead the compliance process for subcontractor onboarding, supplier approval and labour provider checks.
• Ensure subcontractors provide required company documentation, insurances, registrations, tax/social security evidence, and worker documentation where required.
• Review subcontractor structures to identify who employs the workers, who controls the work, which country rules apply and where there may be any risk exposure.
• Support Commercial and Procurement teams to ensure compliance expectations are built into tendering, contract review, supplier selection and project mobilization.

Audit Process

• Own the quarterly compliance audit program and ensure actions are tracked through to completion.
• Coordinate owners, deadlines and evidence gathering during inspections or authority queries.
• Prepare operational responses to clients, main contractors, tax authorities, labour authorities and so on.
• Document findings, corrective actions, accountable owners and close-out dates.

Compliance Culture

• Promote a culture where missing documentation is treated as a project control issue, not an administration issue.
• Provide practical guidance and training to operational and site teams on compliance requirements.
• Run a regular compliance review to ensure urgent project issues, audits, regulatory requests and longer-term improvement actions are controlled.
• Own operational decision-making within the compliance function and elevate significant legal, financial, reputational or business risks.

Role Expectations

• Operate as a trusted compliance advisor to senior leadership, commercial teams, clients and external advisors.
• Present compliance updates, key risks, audit findings and recommendations to senior leadership as required.
• The successful candidate must be available to attend project sites, client meetings, audits, inspections and urgent mobilization meetings where needed.
• Compliance actions, authority requests, project mobilization dates and client expectations must be tracked, prioritized and closed within the targeted timelines.

What We are Looking For

• 10+ years HR experience, with the last 2+ years being within the Construction Sector.
• A Legal, Tax or Risk Management background is a distinct advantage.
• Understand of employment registration processes across Europe.
• Knowledge of payroll, mobility, eligibility to work and other country by country employment legislation.
• Experience managing compliance with CBAs across Europe.