Senior HR Business Partner
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 culture
About 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–focused
If 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 service
Fairness, 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 Fairness, Inclusion and Respect VolkerWessels UK
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Additional information
Note for Recruitment Agencies:
Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.
We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed
VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.
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