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Senior HR Business Partner

Job Posted: 20 days ago

Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Expire in: 7 days

Job Description

VolkerRail is a leading multidisciplinary railway infrastructure contractor which comprises of two businesses: Major Projects and Specialist Businesses.

Major Projects is an expert in collaborative working, leading on large, multidisciplinary joint venture and alliance projects.

Specialist Businesses is made up of expert divisions in signalling, track, power, electrification, and piling, and has an in-house plant division and bespoke design teams.

Our Head office is based in J3 Business Park, Doncaster and provides support to the businesses in the following areas: Finance and Payroll, Human Resources, HSQES, Work Winning, Procurement and Fleet. 

We are proud of our reputation as a high-performing business, working in harmony and partnership with our stakeholders, ensuring we help our clients deliver a rail network for the future.

We have a great opportunity for a Senior HR Business Partner to work to lead our HR partnering approach and drive measurable impact across leadership capability, talent, and organisational effectiveness.

Working closely with the Head of HR, you'll shape and deliver people strategies that strengthen performance, build robust talent pipelines, and support business growth. You'll also lead and develop the HR Business Partnering team, setting the standard for high-impact, commercial HR support.

You will :

Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, influencing people, performance, and organisational strategy
Lead and develop the HR Business Partnering team, building capability and delivering high-impact support to the business.
Drive initiatives to enhance leadership capability, strengthen performance and accountability, and support a high-performance culture
Lead organisational change and workforce planning initiatives
Embed a high-performance, values-led cultureAbout you

Proven experience in a Senior HR Business Partner role

Strong track record in talent, succession, and leadership development
Confident influencing and challenging senior stakeholders
Effective ability to translate business strategy into clear, outcome-drive people plans
Skilled in using data and insight to inform decisions and influence stakeholders
Track record of embedding sustainable change and driving behavioural shift
Experience leading customer-focused HR teams and driving organisational change
Commercial, pragmatic, and outcomes-focusedIf your past experience doesn't match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.

Why work with us?

VolkerRail is under the umbrella of VolkerWessels UK which is a multidisciplinary contractor that delivers innovative engineering solutions across the civil engineering and construction sectors including rail, highways, airport, marine, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

By utilising the specialist skills of each business unit within VolkerWessels UK, VolkerRail are able to ensure our staff provide unrivalled resources and expertise to our clients.

We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.

We offer a range of benefits, including:

Competitive salary
Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
Private medical care
Pension
Life Assurance
Cycle to Work scheme
Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
Flexible working opportunities
Employee Assistance programme
Mental health, physical health, and financial support
24/7 Virtual GP serviceFairness, inclusion and respect

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive. You can read more about our FIR Strategy as well as our partners here

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