Senior HR Advisor - (FTC)

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Are you up for a challenge?

Join Tetra Tech's Human Resources Team at the heart of our business and be part of our journey.

We are searching for an experienced and ambitious Senior HR Advisor to join our ever-evolving HR team on a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave.

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Reporting to the HR Business Partner, this role offers a vast variety of tasks and responsibilities, often changing day to day and is undoubtedly demanding. You will need to be experienced in all the accountabilities set out below, but above all we need you to be resilient, proactive, and passionate. Someone who rolls their sleeves up and gets stuck into the task at hand.

Life at Tetra Tech is fast-paced, so you will be comfortable managing a high volume of activity and a lot of moving parts at the same time. Email and phone traffic can often be intense, so you will have the necessary communication skills to liaise with managers, of all levels, confidently and directly, all with a friendly smile and professional manner. The high volume means you will enjoy getting to know a vast number of colleagues around the business.

The Senior HR Advisor is a true generalist role that will provide day-to-day operational guidance and advisory support to enable effective people management & people practices across all levels of the business, adding value to the business that you support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide stakeholders with guidance, coaching, and advisory support on complex employee relations casework including dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, TUPE Transfers, and redundancy.
• Assist line managers to understand and implement policies and procedures.
• Provide accurate, meaningful, and insightful management information to stakeholders, identifying opportunities to add value by recognizing trends and patterns.
• Provide guidance and HR advice based on risk and commercial awareness.
• Promote equity and diversity as part of the culture of the business.
• Manage the review of HR policies & Contracts of Employment to ensure they are fit for purpose and meet legal and regulatory requirements.
• Liaise with the HR Service Centre, acting as an escalation point.
• Provide HR development through mentoring to the wider HR Service Centre team.
• Support the HR Business Partners and the functional leadership teams to design and deliver the annual people agenda.
• Support on initiatives relating to the whole people lifecycle and wider people initiatives.
• Provide line management training in areas such as performance management, absence management, and wellbeing.
• Manage settlement agreements with people managers and solicitors, including facilitating protected conversations and without prejudice discussions.
• Provide internal and external benchmarking.
• Work in partnership with the HR Business Partner and other members of the HR Team to support cyclical activities.
• Manage ad-hoc HR project work as required.
• Undertake any other reasonable activity in line with the requirements of the role.

The experience you'll bring to the team:

• Proven experience within an HR generalist role, with strong employee relations experience.
• CIPD qualified with evidence of ongoing professional development an advantage but not a necessity.
• Ideally, but not required, experience working for a multi-disciplinary consultancy.
• Knowledge of relevant HR policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of current UK employment Law and how to apply legislation.
• Computer literate with knowledge of relevant software packages including intermediate skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Confident individual with proven communication skills, both verbally and in written format.

Tetra Tech is a leading provider of high-end consulting and engineering services for projects worldwide. We combine the resources of a global, multibillion-dollar company with local, client-focused delivery in more than 400 locations around the world.

At Tetra Tech, we provide a collaborative environment that supports individual performance, innovation, and creativity. We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits.

For more information on our company, please visit our website at www.tetratecheurope.com. To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter on the Careers portion of our website.

Tetra Tech is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We invite resumes from all interested parties including women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities.

We are very happy to discuss flexible working, including the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times, or compressed hours.