HR Advisor

HR Advisor - Construction
£40K - £45K + Benefits
Permanent Role
Harlow

We are looking to recruit a HR Advisor to join our client, a leading passive fire protection contractor, supporting projects that protect lives and safeguard buildings across the UK.

As the HR Advisor, you'll be the first point of contact for HR matters across the business. You'll work closely with site and office teams to provide pragmatic, hands-on support on employee relations, recruitment, compliance, and workforce planning. This is a fantastic opportunity to embed best HR practices in a specialist contractor environment where safety, quality, and teamwork are paramount.

HR Advisor Responsibilities:

• Deliver a fast, efficient and professional HR service over the telephone and face to face
• Ownership of employee relations cases through to closure
• Prioritise time to ensure service is delivered and time constraints are met
• Ownership of all HR Queries within the business,
• Ensure consistency of approach
• Coach and train line managers on HR issues, providing business-focused, risk-balanced advice
• Assist with HR administration including offers, changes, transfers as required
• Support contract mobilisations
• Continuous learning including reading, attending seminars, and undertaking operational projects
• Creating and updating workflows within Cascade
• Ad hoc travel to Southern Office in Hertfordshire

The successful candidate will meet the following criteria:

HR Advisor Essential Experience

• CIPD Level 5 Qualified with at least two years' HR experience
• You must have a full UK Driving Licence and be willing to travel with occasional stayovers
• Sound knowledge of employment law
• Ability to understand the business and balance commercial needs with assessed risks
• Sound experience in management coaching
• Experience in providing technical and practical telephone support
• Professional & personable telephone manner
• Ability to manage problems by identifying cause and effect and proposing solutions
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills
• Take ownership of problems and seek solutions

HR Advisor Desirable Experience

• Experience within the Construction sector dealing with trades operatives
• Cascade HRIS System experience
• Confidence in own ability
• Keen to learn and develop in HR
• Attention to detail & completer/finisher
• Good common sense and ability to articulate information
• Educated to degree standard or equivalent
• Dedication to team and business success
• 'Can do' positive attitude

HR Advisor Salary & Benefits:

This is a key permanent role within the business and offers long term stability and development, along with an excellent basic salary and benefits package. You will also be part of a values-based business with a true family ethos, with their people at the heart of everything they do.