AECOM Hiring for HR Business Partner at Birmingham Full Time

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients. We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business. We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career. When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Job Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world. Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.To maximize the value of AECOM’s Human Capital by enabling our people to succeed, develop and deliver the most innovative solutions for our clients. AECOM has an exciting new opportunity for an HR Business Partner supporting the Environment and Energy businesses which cover over 1,000 employees – we are flexible upon location with a preference for Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds.

Responsibilities:
The purpose of this role is to provide HR expertise and contribute as a business leader to the performance of the Environment and Energy businesses. The role will be accountable to define and implement a people plan for these businesses, together with the following responsibilities:

Applying change management expertise to ensure that organisational changes are planned and implemented in a way that applies best practice, complies with legislation, realises intended benefits and minimises unnecessary ER activity, costs and disruption to delivery performance

Support the business with activities relating to employee experience and engagement including action planning

Creating and implementing a resource plan that optimises expertise to confidently meet the requirements of our current and future workload.

Drive the full scope of the talent agenda including succession planning

Ensure effective and timely implementation of HR initiatives in line with business priorities

Qualifications

The role holder will have a proven track record in building effective relationships with senior leadership teams, as well as managing organisational and cultural change initiatives

Strong experience of employee relations/employment law within a rapidly revolving organisation

Proactive and solutions oriented with a strong coaching style

Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken

Developed and implemented people plans which have influenced business performance in a range of situations/sectors/service types

Delivered change and transformation projects with successful outcomes

Delivered successful TUPE processes and ideally were involved in commercial bidding

Understands the key HR leverage points: Learning & Development, Organisational Design, Reward and Performance, Employee Engagement, Employee and Industrial relations, Resource and Talent Management, Information and Data

Understands best practice HR service delivery and operating model

Ability to apply legal knowledge in a practical setting

Demonstrable experience working within the context of complex, matrix organisations is required

The individual will have highly developed commercial skills, be emotionally intelligent and able to coach and influence senior colleagues

Excellent analytical skills with the ability to make evaluative judgments of both factual and qualitative information drawn from a variety of sources

Degree in HR/CIPD equivalent.

Additional Information

Your benefits will include: Helping our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance is important to us. If you join AECOM, as well as receiving a competitive salary, you’ll also have the opportunity to explore flexible working arrangements. Core benefits include 25 days’ annual leave, company pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and one paid annual professional institution membership fee. You can also choose from a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle. You’ll also be able to give back to communities with up to two paid CSR days each year. Through our charity, The AECOM Foundation, you can volunteer to support children in developing countries. And if you’re a member of the Reserve Forces you’ll receive an additional 15 days paid leave for training commitments.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.