HR Business Partner
Posted 1 day ago by 1772807554
Negotiable
Inside
Undetermined
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Summary: The HR Business Partner role at MERITUS involves supporting a complex engineering-led organization in a highly regulated defence and aerospace environment. This position is embedded within the business, serving as a trusted advisor to senior managers and focusing on performance, workforce planning, employee relations, and organizational change. The role is not transactional but commercially critical, requiring strong HR expertise and stakeholder engagement. The contract is for an initial 12 months with potential extensions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partnering with operational leaders to deliver HR strategy in line with business objectives.
- Advising managers on policy, employment law and best practice.
- Driving performance review, salary review and team review cycles.
- Leading and supporting employee relations cases including disciplinary and grievance.
- Supporting redeployment and redundancy processes where required.
- Managing absence trends in partnership with Occupational Health.
- Coaching managers to build capability and engagement.
- Driving talent management, mobility and succession planning.
- Delivering HR training across performance, capability and policy areas.
- Supporting union/social partner dialogue.
- Producing data packs and people metrics for leadership review.
- Contributing to culture and change initiatives.
Key Skills:
- Proven HR Business Partner experience in engineering, manufacturing or defence.
- Strong employee relations capability.
- Experience supporting organisational change.
- Confidence influencing senior stakeholders.
- Experience operating in regulated or unionised environments.
- Strong data literacy and commercial awareness.
- Ability to challenge constructively.
Salary (Rate): £30.00 Hourly
City: Stevenage
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: HR
MERITUS are recruiting for a HR Business Partner to join our client on an initial 12 month contract from their site in Stevenage with very likely extensions thereafter.
HR BUSINESS PARTNER - INSIDE IR35 - 30 PER HOUR - 12 MONTHS - STEVENAGE, UK - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS
We are supporting a complex, engineering-led organisation operating within a highly regulated defence and aerospace environment.
This HR Business Partner role is Embedded within the business, acting as the operational voice of HR and a trusted advisor to senior managers.
This is not a transactional HR position.
It is a commercially critical role supporting performance, workforce planning, employee relations and organisational change.
Partnering with operational leaders to deliver HR strategy in line with business objectives.
Advising managers on policy, employment law and best practice.
Driving performance review, salary review and team review cycles.
Leading and supporting employee relations cases including disciplinary and grievance.
Supporting redeployment and redundancy processes where required.
Managing absence trends in partnership with Occupational Health.
Coaching managers to build capability and engagement.
Driving talent management, mobility and succession planning.
Delivering HR training across performance, capability and policy areas.
Supporting union/social partner dialogue.
Producing data packs and people metrics for leadership review.
Contributing to culture and change initiatives.
What We're Looking For
Proven HR Business Partner experience in engineering, manufacturing or defence.
Strong employee relations capability.
Experience supporting organisational change.
Confidence influencing senior stakeholders.
Experience operating in regulated or unionised environments.
Strong data literacy and commercial awareness.
Ability to challenge constructively.
This role suits someone comfortable operating in complex stakeholder environments where decisions impact safety-critical and high-value programmes.