Senior ER People Partner

Location: Dartford, UK
Sector: People Team
Type:Full-time, Permanent

We have an exciting opportunity to join us in a newly created role to support our growing business as an Employee Relations People Partner. This is a key role in supporting the People Operations Team by contributing to organisational and operational projects that are instrumental in driving positive change. You will be effectively managing a high-volume caseload of employee relations (ER) cases.

To provide leaders with consistent, comprehensive, and pragmatic advice and support, ensuring compliance with best practices, organisational policies, and employment legislation. The ER Partner will have the opportunity to be a strong advocate for early intervention approaches, utilising mediation, and coaching skills to collaborate closely with leaders and colleagues. By employing proactive strategies, prevent the escalation of issues into formal processes fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.

• Coach and support business area teams to effectively manage employee relations matter effectively.
• Ensure the highest standards of governance, compliance and control are applied to all matters to drive a culture of trust throughout the business area.
• Support a large caseload concurrently, covering various aspects of ER including performance, sickness absence, disciplinary, grievance, redundancies and SOSR cases.
• Support change projects
• Work closely and collaboratively with the Legal team and the Strategic People Leads as key stakeholders to ensure the business remains compliant with legislation and other legal developments, following an early engagement operating model.
• Analyse data, documents, and evidence to evaluate the merits of each case and determine appropriate actions or recommendations.

• Minimum of CIPD level 5 qualification.
• Sound knowledge of appropriate employment law & HR best practices and their pragmatic application.
• Track record of delivering business unit level HR services in a challenging environment which is geographically dispersed.

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

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