HR Business Partner (12 month fixed term)
Your New Company
The UK’s Utility sector is ever evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer requirements. At Ipsum, it’s our vision to be the leading customer service focused provider of specialist utility and infrastructure solutions, operating on both public and private networks.
To support our continued growth, we are looking for a HR Business Partner - Power to join our team. We seek someone who is passionate about the industry and about supporting our teams in delivering essential services 24/7/365 that make a difference to local people and communities.
What we offer
We are committed to supporting and developing our people to achieve their full potential. As a fast-growing ambitious business, we can offer our people opportunities to acquire a wide range of skills and gain broad and varied experience to enable them to progress in their career. Investing in our people and enhancing our expertise and flexibility enables us to deliver the highest standard of service to our customers.
We value our people and like to look after them. If you work for us, you’ll enjoy a great range of employee benefits:
* Career development including professional qualifications and accreditation
* Employee Assistance Programme including mental health support and access to counselling
* Access to 24/7 virtual GP
* Occupational Health support
Tax efficient benefits via salary exchange (salary sacrifice):
* Cycle to Work
* Employee Discount Scheme – discounts on hundreds of retailers including supermarkets, mobile phone/broadband providers, gym memberships, and more!
* Established local social committees with a calendar of regular social events
* Life assurance cover
* Long service awards
* Opportunities to volunteer and make a difference via local community projects and initiatives
Your new role
This is a varied role which will require travel across the UK to different sites including Grantham, Sale, Wrexham, and Milnthorpe. As part of the package, there will be a car allowance.
Reporting to the Senior HR Business Partner, your principal accountabilities will include:
* Drive up line management capability and self-sufficiency to transition ownership of day-to-day people management to line managers.
* Champion a strong culture of engagement and positive employee relations by working proactively with line managers and the Senior HR Business Partner to implement engagement action plans to drive performance.
* Embed PeopleHR in the operational divisions to develop line management capability and drive cultural change in levels of ownership and accountability.
* Ensure operational data within PeopleHR is always up to date in real time.
* Coordinate activities in relation to TUPE, acquisitions, integration, organisational development, restructuring, and redundancy with the Senior HR Business Partner.
* Coach line managers on having difficult conversations and the informal resolution of issues.
* Provide professional, technically sound, and pragmatic HR advice to line managers to minimise risk.
* Refer to the Senior HR Business Partner as appropriate.
* Prepare the monthly operational HR report for your division.
About you
* Degree level education preferred.
* Utilities industry experience preferred.
* Experience of working within a highly matrixed environment.
* Strong working knowledge of employment law.
* Experienced in leading change projects including organisation design, restructure, variation of terms and conditions.
* Accustomed to establishing key stakeholder relationships at all levels to achieve objectives.
* Excellent IT skills including Microsoft packages: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and SharePoint.
Ipsum is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
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