Balfour Beatty Hiring for Assistant HR Business Partner at London Full Time

Here at Balfour Beatty, our work inspires communities and advances society. Our commitment to sustainability looks even further – generations further.

Join our Enabling Functions team as a Assistant HR Business Partner and you’ll be part of our legacy.

The role will spend time supporting two areas of the HR Function:

Support the Senior HRBP, PMO and Strategic Projects to own the HR PMO agenda and push forward the HR Teams strategic priorities

Work with the Enabling Functions HRBP team to deliver their people priorities, including having ownership of supporting specific EF functions and on delivering the cyclical HR agenda and projects.

This role is suited to an ambitious individual, looking to grow into bigger HR roles quickly.

What you’ll be doing

As a Assistant HR Business Partner, you will have the following accountabilities:

EF:
Partner with a couple of key areas within EF to ensure they have the correct level of HR support to push forward their people agendas

Support our HRBP team to own cyclical activity and coordinate submissions (for example learning and development, pay review, talent and graduates and apprentices). This includes representing the team on meetings, sharing key information, ensuring all activities are carried out by required deadlines and to a high standard, and contributing ideas for continual improvement.

Interface with our centres of expertise and HRSS as appropriate to ensure a high standard of HR service to the business.

Support and guideline managers on effective use of the HR Operating Model and support them in resolving non-standard queries that have a material impact on the business including escalating issues and overseeing their resolution in a timely manner

Ownership of ad hoc HR Projects and activities, liaising with representatives from other enabling functions, and across the Group, wider HR team as required – such as EF induction

PMO:
Be responsible for reporting on the BBUK HR Plan, preparing data and insights to enable the Senior HRBP to know if we are working to plan and if not, what the escalations and barriers are

Appropriately challenge programme leads from the HR Plan to ensure they are setting their projects up for success

Drive collaboration and connection between projects and projects leads to ensure we are delivering the HR plan in a consistent and joined up way

Be involved in the development of the 2023 HR Plan and how we keep improving how we run projects as an HR Function

Own the continuous improvement of the HR activity schedule, quarterly look ahead and activity aimed at ensuring that our HR Team is a great place to be part of

Project manage the delivery of the Fixing Frustrations ensuring that we are making progress and providing useful updates

Opportunity to get involved in delivering specific projects of strategic importance from the HR Plan, for example onboarding

Great opportunity to have visibility of how the whole HR Team operate and get experience from a COE lens

Assist with the development and implementation of internal HR communication channels

Who we’re looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:
A flexible approach to work with the ability to adapt to change

A team focus with the ability to communicate and build strong relationships with a wide variety of people at all levels

A driven, self-motivated attitude, with the ability to work on your own initiative and influence decision making

Confident in the use of Office software including PowerPoint, Excel and Word

Ideally previous work experience in HR within any industry or experience in a construction/engineering environment

A full, clean UK driving licence

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Balfour Beattys Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Build to Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

Job Reference: BBUK01794