HR Advisor

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit:

Mott MacDonald’s enabling functions are the driving force behind our organisation to ensure we run our business efficiently and effectively. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, proactive, and pragmatic Human Resources (HR) Advisor to join the Advisory (APD) business unit.

This is a generalist HR role, in which you will work collaboratively with the enabling teams and the Senior HRBP, offering specialist advice and best practice to all aspects of HR advisory across the employee life cycle, including employee relations (ER), absence management, and first line advisory.

About the role:
We are in an exciting period of transition, which will see you provide efficient and effective support to our organisation, and other HR teams on a range of operational and strategic HR activities.

In this role you will:

• Have a strong focus on coaching and supporting managers through a wide range of ER cases, including absence, performance, capability, grievance, disciplinary, investigation and termination.
• Provide sound advice to managers and employees on HR policies, procedures and legislation, independently responding to queries and ensuring a consistent and pragmatic approach.
• Advise on family friendly policies and agile working guidance, including case management of flexible working requests.
• Proactively manage absence and wellbeing cases, including monitoring absence data and managing Occupational Health referrals.
• Provide advice and guidance on secondments, transfers, cross-border remote working requests and relocations, ensuring a consistent and trackable approach.
• Assist with general cyclical activities such as salary reviews, promotions and L&D programmes.
• Be responsible for providing monthly and adhoc reporting.
• Support with the design and delivery of training materials for the business.
• Support and promote engagement with CSR activities.
• Build key stakeholder relationships.
• Make a positive contribution to the development of guidelines for people processes, attend and participate in appropriate meetings and forums.
• Work closely with the HR shared services and payroll teams to ensure accurate and timely transfer of information.
• Support and work closely with the wider HR team on adhoc projects and tasks as reasonably required.

About you:
We welcome interest from candidates with:

• Previous experience in an HR advisory role, and excellent knowledge of managing a range of employee relations cases in accordance with UK legislation to include grievances, disciplinaries, performance management, absence management, redundancies etc.
• Professional, proactive and positive attitude with the ability to motivate self.
• Reliable and able to work independently.
• Excellent analytical and numeracy skills with the ability to analyse and interpret complex data and people information.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to quickly build effective, collaborative relationships with the wider people team, and other colleagues across the business.
• Good organisation and prioritisation skills with the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
• Ability to maintain discretion and integrity at all times.
• Comply with Data Protection and General Data Protections Regulations (GDPR) and ensure the security of employee information in accordance with legislation and best practice.
• Ability to communicate routine and complex information clearly at all levels recognising the importance of attention to detail and confidentiality.
• Good IT skills, including proficiency in HR Systems, and Microsoft Office.
• CIPD qualified to level 5, or working towards

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.