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The Opportunity

Stantec UK & Ireland (UK&I) is a rapidly growing business, through acquisitions and organic growth. Reporting to the HR Director UKI, you will lead a growing team of 10+ HR professionals spread across the UK.

You will play a key role supporting the growth of our business, through flawless employee relations, business partnering and strategic thinking. You will carefully balance operational expertise and efficiency with the coaching and development of your wider team.

You will deliver key HR initiatives that are aligned with the business strategy, preparing the organisation for growth at every step. You will support and lead the business on employee relations issues and provide guidance on complex HR issues through coaching, negotiation, and resolution.

The delivery of HR initiatives that are aligned with the business strategy is a core feature of this role.

Supporting and leading the business on employee relations issues; partners with legal counsel throughout; providing guidance to business leaders and the HR team on complex HR issues through coaching, teaching, and role modelling to ensure successful resolutions.

This is your opportunity to join Stantec at the infancy of its exciting growth journey. If what excites you is applying your exemplary stakeholder management skills and commercial acumen to help achieve Stantec's strategic goals, then you should seriously consider this opportunity.

Hybrid working:

3 days a week minimum in the office, 2 days of which will in our Warrington office. The in-person provision of support to the wider HR team and Site personnel is a key aspect of this role.

About You

A Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Human Resources Management, Business, Social Sciences, or a related discipline. Proven business relationship development, coupled with experience leading and managing HR teams. You bring a successful track record in influencing change within a large, complex, global and changing environment where results focused perspective is essential. CIPD accredited to Chartered Member level is essential.

A senior HR professional, you bring a warm and engaging style. Proven experience in integration of acquisitions experience would be ideal, as rapid growth and organisational development are constants for our HR team. You are passionate about building high performing HR teams as well as highly skilled at organisational design theory and the delivery of operational HR.

You enjoy working within a fast paced, matrix and global business. You possess strong organizational and leaderships skills to manage a team of highly capable HR professionals, handling competing priorities and deadlines, with the ability to use discretion and independent judgement when dealing with complex, confidential matters.

About Stantec

Stantec is a professional services firm. Our team of 31,000 global experts provides engineering, architecture, environmental, and project management services across all phases of the project life cycle.

We’re designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers, innovating together at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Balancing these priorities results in projects that advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.

From large-scale developments to challenging neighbourhood projects, we stretch across our global network to learn from others, offer our support, and gain new experiences along the way. So while we work to help the communities around us thrive, our own people thrive too.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.

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