People Operations Advisor

AtkinsRéalis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is looking for a People Operations Advisor to support HR functions by responding to queries and providing advisory services. This role entails collaborative work, managing employee relations cases, and driving process improvements in a diverse environment. The position promotes a strong focus on customer experience and effective change management.

Benefits

Flexible holidays

Health & wellbeing benefits

Career planning support

Qualifications

• Generalist HR advisory experience across various HR activities/processes is beneficial.
• Ability to listen actively and apply judgement.
• Outstanding customer focus with a partnership approach.

Responsibilities

• Provide a professional advisory and administrative service across HR queries.
• Manage stakeholder queries ensuring timely response.
• Support and provide advice on employee relation cases.

Skills

Customer focus

Collaborative work

Persuasion and influencing

Job description

Overview:

The People Operations Advisor role supports the business with first line HR queries and will provide a consistently great customer experience in all employee relations issues. The team is key to supporting the business in all employee relations issues, major projects and initiatives, delivering first class advisory services and driving change.

Key stakeholders:

• This role will report into a People Operations Manager.
• The role sits within the People Operations Team, which consists of People Operations Advisors, Senior People Operations Advisors and People Partners.
• This team is based across the UK in our key offices.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide a professional advisory and administrative service to business colleagues across a broad range of HR queries and processes.
• Manage stakeholder queries via phone and email and our case management system, ensuring they are dealt with in a timely manner to meet SLAs and customer service principle.
• Support and provide advice on employee relation cases, such as sickness absence, performance management, and the Company’s people policy and procedures.

Use initiative to effectively and efficiently manage individual workload within the case management system:

• Assist projects as required.
• Signpost employees to other HR service lines where appropriate.
• Support our offshore HR team with HR services, policies and processes.
• Build excellent working relationships with HR teams, employees and key stakeholders in both the UK and Bangalore.
• Support case management, producing correspondence, handling customer queries, monitoring reports and documentation.
• Support a variety of improvement and service projects.
• Ensure the management of end-to-end processes in line with customer needs whilst maintaining legal and compliance requirements.

Requirements:

• Ability to work collaboratively.
• Customer focus with a drive to deliver.
• Generalist HR advisory experience across a range of HR activities/processes (not mandatory).
• Ability to listen actively, ask probing questions and analyse requirements.
• Ability to apply judgement to resolve individual cases.
• Ability to identify and address or escalate risk.
• Persuasion and influencing skills.
• Outstanding customer focus and the ability to manage customer requirements through a partnership approach.

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Meeting your needs:

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More about us:

AtkinsRéalis is a leading global consultancy with over 100 years of design and engineering expertise. With us, you'll be surrounded by the skills, knowledge and support to help you succeed. Together, we can deliver projects which have a positive, sustainable impact on the world.

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Additional Information:

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.