Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?
Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build a 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high-speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels, and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Employee Relations Partner within the Human Resources Function. This role will be based on-site in Birmingham. Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham city center.
Role Responsibilities:
* Comprehensive and timely management of all types of ER cases for the designated region and support to other regions/sites as necessary.
* Ensure effective, timely case management of people-related issues.
* Ensuring excellent governance of cases by robust and accurate utilisation of case tracker and case filing system.
* Supporting at various ER meetings as necessary.
* Assisting with management of Employment Tribunal and Early Conciliation cases as required.
* Creating, reviewing, and updating policies, guides, and template letters.
* Creation and review as necessary of team ER Standard Operating Procedures.
* Ad hoc ER project work as required.
Experience Required:
* Significant experience in ER case management.
* Thorough knowledge of employment law.
* Excellent communication skills demonstrated through a variety of methods.
* Effective influencing skills to achieve business aims and objectives.
* Proven ability to work without close supervision, a self-starter who enjoys working as part of a team but who is equally comfortable working on their own, utilising their initiative in an effective manner.
* Strong organisational, planning, time and project management skills with evidence of the ability to work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality, accuracy, attention to detail, and high standards.
* Strong decision-making skills. Able to make timely, informed decisions that take into account the facts, goals, constraints, and risks. Balances analysis, wisdom, experience, and perspective when making decisions.
* Ability to maintain confidentiality and integrity in all matters, displaying appropriate judgement and initiative when required.
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.
Benefits of working with us:
* Flexible working available for some roles.
* Travel allowance for eligible candidates.
* Family-friendly leave policies.
* Health risk assessments.
* Access to employee assistance programmes.
* Access to annual flu vaccinations.
About Balfour Beatty VINCI:
Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport, and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.
Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:
* 9.3km of viaducts.
* 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels.
* 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses.
Diversity and Inclusion:
Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.
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