Jobbörse

HR Business Partner – Facilities Services

Leeds (hybrid) with travel across offices

Permanent

Summary

This is a fantastic opportunity for a forward-thinking HR Business Partner (HRBP) to play a pivotal role in our Facilities Services business. You’ll be bBased in our Leeds office, with regular   travel across our sites, you’ll be right at the heart of the business – building strong relationships, understanding what really matters to your stakeholders, and turning people strategy into real impact

As the trusted strategic partner to senior leaders, you’ll influence decisions that shape the future of the business. You’ll lead progressive, commercially focused people initiatives that drive performance, engagement, capability, while ensuring we operate to the highest standards of UK employment law and best practice.  From navigating complex employee relations to leading change developing talent, and embedding a high-performance inclusive culture, this role offers real breadth, challenge and influence.

You’ll thrive in an environment where no two days are the same — supporting leaders through growth, transformation, and change, using insight and data to tell compelling stories and guide better decisions. If you’re passionate about developing leaders, creating inclusive workplaces, and making a tangible difference across a diverse, multi‑site business this is a role where your expertise will truly matter.

This is more than an HR role—it’s a chance to be a catalyst for positive change and help build confident, capable, and future‑ready teams.

Some of the key deliverables will include:

• Strategic Partnership
  • Work closely with business leaders to understand priorities, challenges, and workforce requirements
  • Develop and deliver people plans aligned to organisational and divisional goals
  • Provide insight using HR analytics to support decision-making around workforce trends, retention, and performance
• Employee Relations (ER)
  • Provide expert advice on complex ER matters including disciplinary, grievance, performance, and absence cases.
  • Ensure a fair and legally compliant approach aligned with UK employment law and organisational policy
  • Coach managers on effective people management practices.
• Organisational Design & Change
  • Support organisational changes such as restructures, TUPE, role redesign, and redundancy processes
  • Lead consultation processes and ensure all statutory requirements are met.
  • Facilitate smooth change management, ensuring employee engagement throughout transitions
• Talent & Capability Development
  • Identify talent gaps and work with leaders to create succession and development plans
  • Partner with L&D teams to deliver training solutions that build capability and support career progression
  • Support leadership development, coaching managers to enhance people leadership behaviours
• Performance, Reward & Culture
  • Support the implementation of performance management processes, ensuring consistency and quality
  • Provide input to reward initiatives, benchmarking, pay, bonus and salary reviews
  • Promote a culture of inclusion, wellbeing, and high performance.
• HR Operations & Compliance
  • Support the Peoples Services Team to ensure HR policies remain current and compliant with UK employment legislation
  • Support HR projects including Fairness inclusion and respect (FIR), policy implementation, engagement surveys, and process improvements
  • Maintain accurate employee records and ensure GDPR compliance

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in an HRBP or senior HR generalist role
• Ideally have worked within a Facilities Services focused business or division
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
• Ability to build strong, credible relationships with senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience of managing complex ER cases and organisational change
• Data‑driven with the ability to interpret and present insights
• Strong influencing, coaching, and communication skills
• Ideally CIPD Level 5 or 7 (or equivalent experience)
• Experience in a multi‑site or matrix organisation
• Exposure to TUPE, restructures, and large-scale change projects
• Commercially minded with a solutions-focused approach
• Confident, resilient, and able to navigate ambiguity
• Proactive and able to work independently while managing a diverse workload
• Passionate about creating a positive, inclusive workplace culture.

Next Steps: 

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.  

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met. 

About Us: 

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training. 

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies. 

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be. 
#LI-LP1