Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are currently looking for an HR Advisor/Business Partner to join our People team in a UK centric role. You will enable the delivery of overall business goals by providing operational support to multiple Business Area Managers and People & Performance Managers in the Clean Energy and Environmental Solutions business unit.  You will focus on identifying and co-ordinating the implementation of HR solutions to improve business performance and providing management coaching on HR issues.

You will also work closely with the other HRBPs and HR Operations Manager to ensure that the service is consistent across the business.   You will find the HRBP team incredibly supportive and welcoming.  The team regularly discuss solutions and share learning to make sure the best and latest thinking has been considered in our service to the business.  We are a team that is continually developing and hence you will be comfortable with change, managing your priorities and a varying set of tasks. 

Key Responsibilities

• Proactive support to Business Area Managers, Team Leaders and Line managers
• Operational HR advice and associated transactional tasks
• Inductions and probations supporting new starter integration
• Contract changes
• Support and advice with promotion cases, salary reviews
• Data management and analysis
• Delivering training and presenting at local business meetings
• Managing maternity/paternity/flexible working/home working requests
• Providing input into HR strategic goals and operational plans
• Contributing to the creation and implementation of new policies and processes
• Involvement in HR projects as required
• Performance management, disciplinary, grievances and redundancy
• Challenge and coach line managers on how to engage employees, address resulting people and employee relations issues and build people capabilities effectively.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Significant experience in an HR environment, with proven expertise in a generalist HR role.
• Proactive and confident in decision-making at line manager level, with guidance as needed.
• Comfortable working in an ambiguous environment
• Strong organisational skills to manage operational responsibilities while contributing to wider business initiatives.
• Thorough understanding of UK employment law and HR best practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the business.
• Ability to multitask and manage priorities effectively.
• Discreet handling of sensitive information, always ensuring confidentiality
• Proficient in Microsoft tools, including: Power BI, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Desirable: CIPD Level 5 qualification (minimum).

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.