HR Business Partner

Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to join our team. Reporting to both the HR Director, BAM UK & Ireland, and the Head of People for the EKFB Project, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering people strategies that support the objectives, vision, and long-term success of both the parent company and the EKFB project.

As a trusted advisor to Directors, senior leaders, and management teams, you will provide strategic HR guidance and partner with stakeholders across the business to drive organisational performance and people excellence. Working closely with the EKFB HR team, the wider BAM People function, and Centres of Excellence, you will lead and support the delivery of key people initiatives that enhance employee engagement, talent development, workforce planning, and organisational effectiveness.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence business outcomes, champion best practice, and contribute to the success of one of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects while supporting the wider BAM organisation.

Your team

• The role is offered on a hybrid working basis, with a minimum of three days per week based at the EKFB Head Office in Milton Keynes. Regular travel to project sites across the route will be required, along with national business travel where needed.

Making Possible

• Act as a strategic partner, working collaboratively to support the development and delivery of the EKFB project and parent company segment and business unit operational and strategic plans and objectives
• Working with leaders and managers to build a culture aligned to parent company and EKFB project values and behaviours, which are focused on trust, respect and fairness, support diversity and inclusion, wellbeing and employee engagement.
• Lead and advise on all Human Resources operational matters including performance management, employee relations matters including disciplinary, grievances, absence management, redundancy programmes and organisation design.
• Responsible for recording employee relations matters on both the project and parent company case management systems, ensuring all advice, notes, decisions and outcomes are logged accurately.
• Provide coaching and advice to line managers to enable them to lead on resolving complex Employee Relations issues and ensure compliance and consistency, leading on constructive working relationships with trade unions, works councils, employee forums and similar bodies.
• Work collaboratively with the compliance teams on cases involving serious conduct or behavioural concerns
• Lead performance management strategy working with managers to drive the perform and develop process to include goal setting and the end of year review process including calibration, and any performance improvement initiatives aligned to business objectives.
• Drive succession planning, identifying and developing internal talent pipelines to support business continuity and growth.
• Conduct workforce analytics and implement People metrics frameworks to measure the effectiveness of policies, procedures and strategy, presenting insights to leadership.
• Provide analysis and feedback on employee engagement tools, supporting activity to create and implement action plans.
• Using data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of policies, procedures and strategy.
• Provide regular, monthly and quarterly people reports (to agreed formats and timetable for both parent company and EKFB)
• Lead the implementation of people-related policy and process governance aligned to both parent company and EKFB project requirements.
• Develop evidence-based solutions and interventions through analysis of People data and metrics to identify trends and investigate root causes of people-related issues.
• Continuously drive improvements in systems, policies and procedures through keeping knowledge of HR external market trends, insight and internal best practice.
• Assess and advise on: current and future resourcing (supporting Strategic Workforce Planning insights), merit & promotion processes and reward programmes.
• Supporting managers with recruitment, succession, retention, early career and high potential development designed to improve diversity and business performance.
• Manage, support and develop team member(s) as appropriate to the role

What do you bring to the role?

• You will be an experienced operational HR professional.
• Ideally, you will have previous experience in operating as an HR Business Partner in a multi-site, operational or contracting environment, delivering and supporting the development of people-based solutions.  
• You will have a passion for all people-related topics and will have a breadth of experience and exposure to all parts of the employee lifecycle.  
• In your career to date, you will have experience of managing change, employee relations (including complex ER cases), as well as supporting the development of policies and procedures and HR related projects.  
• You will be able to balance the needs of your stakeholders and will have a commercially focused mindset which combines the requirements of the business and people strategy.
• Using effective communication skills build relationships with your stakeholders, understanding their objectives and working with them to achieve success.
• Your excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills mean you develop relationships with ease, which enable you to constructively challenge in order to seek continuous improvements that add value, drive consistency and deliver improved results.  
• Able to work to high standards and lead by example as a role model, identify strengths and areas of development in others
• You will have committed to your own personal development and will be CIPD qualified or will hold an alternative relevant professional qualification.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• A wide range of family-friendly policies
• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

The application process

For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Monica Curl, Recruiter, BAM Infrastructure, Email: monica.curl@bam.com

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.