Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Lead Employee Relations and Industrial Relations Partner within the Human Resources Function. This role will be based on site in Coleshill, Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham international.

Role Responsibilities;

• Leadership of ER Team to deliver an exceptional ER service to the project.
• Oversee effective, timely ER case management for the Joint Venture.
• Advise and coach managers and HR colleagues to effectively manage any employee relations issues.
• Cost-effectively manage employment litigation matters on behalf of the Joint Venture including but not limited to employment tribunal claims, ACAS early conciliation cases and settlement agreement negotiations.
• Liaise with external lawyers as appropriate to seek advice and guidance, always with a view to keeping legal spend at a minimum.
• Track and manage legal spend including legal fees; payments to employees/contractors in consequence of legal proceedings, contemplated or actual; and employee solicitor payments.

Experience Required;

• Experienced in managing a high-volume Employee Relations function
• Deep and current employment law knowledge and its pragmatic application to cases
• Experience of leading and advising on organisational and operational change initiatives
• Experience of working with Trade Unions • Basic knowledge of industrial relations law
• Ability to build, develop and maintain positive, collaborative working relationships with stakeholders ideally within complex multi-site or joint venture environment
• Excellent communication, influencing and presentation skills
• Strong organisational, planning, time and project management skills with the ability to work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality, accuracy, attention to detail and high standards
• Robust record-keeping skills and understanding of their importance
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to absorb complex information, considering the potential impacts of a variety of courses of action
• Experience of providing a true consultancy service to business leaders
• Good customer/stakeholder focus
• Strong decision making skills

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance 

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.