Senior HR Advisor

Working at Boskalis is about creating new horizons and sustainable solutions. In a world where population growth, an increase of global trade, demand for (new) energy and climate change are driving forces, we challenge you to make your mark in finding innovative and relevant solutions for complex infrastructural and marine projects. 

In your job you will work for the offshore energy division. Boskalis has one of the largest global fleets of specialized offshore vessels, allowing us to carry out a broad range of offshore activities. We provide innovative and sustainable all-round solutions to tackle major worldwide maritime challenges. Our Offshore Energy division supports sustainable energy solutions such as wind energy as well as traditional fossil facilities. We’re involved in the entire journey from developing and transporting to maintaining and decommissioning these facilities.

Make your mark as a Senior HR Advisor for Boskalis Subsea Services located in Aberdeen.  The Senior HR Advisor is an integral part of the Subsea Services HR Team, providing proactive HR support, guidance and advice to both Line Managers and Employees within a designated area of the business.  You will Support & Lead the successful delivery of the Business and HR objectives through providing a generalist HR service, in line with current employment legislation and business requirements.  Further, you will create and facilitate connections and engagement within the Offshore Energy division, between employees and management, different business units and the wider Boskalis.

Your responsibilities as a Senior HR Advisor:

• Providing HR advice and support on HR issues ensuring advice is professional, commercially solution based and focused on business requirements, whilst ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation
• Case management of employee relations including but not limited to sickness absence, performance management and leave issues.
• Working closely with the dedicated Recruiter to support and progress all ongoing recruitment activities
• Support L&D activities for designated area including creating and implementing development plans, managing development training requests and succession planning
• Focal point for Company training/development schemes including MPDS, APM, and Commercial & Finance Graduate Development and Engineering Trainee schemes
• Developing, maintaining and implementation of HR policies and procedures, ensuring all relevant policies are in place and meet both business and legislative requirements, working with WOW guidelines.

You can make your mark as a Senior HR Advisor if you have: 

• A relevant degree in Human Resources or Business and CIPD certification.
• Relevant work experience as a Senior or Lead HR Adviser preferably but not essential within the Oil & Gas industry
• Demonstration of managing multiple HR projects such as TUPE, redundancy and harmonization.
• Experience of complex Employee Relations issues and facilitation/coaching skills.
• Confidence in dealing with multiple levels of internal stakeholders.
• Ability to increase level of responsibility as required (adhoc cover for Head of HR)

What you can expect

• A dynamic environment: A job that allows you to collaborate with a talented team of experts from different backgrounds and contribute to making a significant impact.
• Rewarding conditions: Besides a competitive salary, you will receive a holiday entitlement of 34 days, a contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance and death in service benefit. There is also a range of flexible benefits you can take advantage of including the opportunity to buy additional holidays each year.
• Career development: We offer you plenty of opportunities to bring out the best in yourself for example through (online) courses at our Boskalis academy.  
• Opportunities to connect with colleagues across the organization: Through networking and knowledge-sharing sessions, events, and employee communities.

Extra information

• Your team:  you will join an existing team of four HR professionals.
• Where you will work: Your location will be our office in Aberdeen.
• Full/part- time job: The position of Senior HR Advisor is full time, 35 hours per week.
• Next steps: Apply easily by completing the online application form. Interviews are held online or in the office. Once it’s clear we’re a good match, we’ll make you an offer – and look forward to welcoming you to the company.

We are more than happy to answer your questions about the position of Senior HR Advisor.  Please contact Matthew Hurrel, Recruiter.



Please apply by filling in your details and by uploading your cover letter and CV on our careers site.

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Disclaimer for Recruiters and Recruitment Agencies 

We appreciate your interest in our vacancies and understand that your candidate might be enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. However, our recruitment process is not structured this way, at Boskalis we handle recruitment ourselves. Therefore, we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies. Any submission will be treated as a direct application.