HR Advisor

Our client, a leading energy services company are looking to add a HR Advisor to their team to deliver impact through the full employee lifecycle.  This position will be offered on a 6 month contract basis with hybrid working offered.

ROLE

Act as a true partner to Service Lines to deliver business impact through the full employee lifecycle by building, developing, and retaining a high performing and diverse workforce.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Living the client and demonstrating them daily.
• Embracing a Business Partnering approach by building strong working relationships and building credibility, through regular communications with senior business leaders to understand and meet on-going/future business requirements, ensuring that HR play a part in the successful achievement of business objectives.
• Fostering a culture of service excellence, acting as role modelling for client and behaviours maximising the contribution that HR, makes to the organisation both through own efforts and through supporting developing line management to manage their people.
• Delivering a passionate HR service to our business that is both commercially minded, and customer focussed whilst operationally driven to support a high profile client.
• The provision of professional and proactive HR advice and guidance within defined business areas within EPS West in line with Company standards and processes.  Working in partnership with business leaders and managers to provide guidance and advice on all HR matters always ensuring relevant legislation is adhered to.
• Leading key change projects and advising client group management on people related risks and ensuring that all areas of change are compliant with relevant legislation. Furthermore, leading and influencing change across areas to support implementation, embedment into and adoption by the business of key change initiatives.
• Leading and resolving complex employee relations issues ensuring that values and standards are maintained at all times
• The management of long term and complex absenteeism, including but not limited to medial referral management and the updating of the absence case log.
• The management of end to end employee lifecycle activities including, but not limited to, Recruitment, Reward, Performance Management, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Retention, Employee Relations, business planning and forecasting. 
• The raising of Helpdesk tickets within the HRIS to facilitate the processing of employee changes. These activities shall include but are not limited to onboarding and leaver processes, assignment, departmental, payroll and other changes to employee's terms and conditions.
• Supporting client groups in the execution of annual organisation wide activities (e.g. performance development reviews, employee opinion survey and talent management etc.).
• Leading redeployment processes ensuring that the Company guidelines are followed in line with relevant legislation, Company values and behaviours.
• Supporting due diligence, bids and tender activities, transition and TUPE exercises ensuring effective communication and compliance.
• Focusing on behaviours for Diversity & Inclusion by ensuring equality opportunity and fairness in all areas of employment and value the diversity of employees, customers and those living in the communities in which the client has a presence.

REQUIREMENTS:

Knowledge & Qualifications:

• Degree & CIPD qualified
• Chartered Member of the CIPD
• Strong knowledge of Employment Law and complex case management
• Knowledge and application of HR Metrics

Skills & Competencies:

• Effective interpersonal and communication Skills
• Effective negotiation and influencing skills
• Effective coaching skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Organisation and time management skills, particularly when dealing with conflicting priorities.
• Commercial awareness to support the business in making key decisions and understanding the implications of this.
• Proactive approach to HR as a value-add function
• Operational HR experience