Looking for your next opportunity to make a real difference? Join our team as a People Partner and play a key role in shaping culture, developing talent, and helping leaders create high-performing teams.

As part of our centralised People team, you will partner with business leaders to deliver people solutions that support Laing O'Rourke's strategic objectives.

This role is key to driving consistent implementation of people policies and processes, managing people-related risks, and supporting the delivery of business goals. You will also contribute to wider people projects and change initiatives across the organisation, helping to enhance employee experience and organisational performance.

About the Role

Working closely with the People Director, People Leads, and senior stakeholders, you will ensure people management practices are aligned with business priorities, HR best practices, and organisational values.

As a trusted HR partner, you will provide expert coaching, guidance, and support to managers, ensuring people strategies, policies, and processes are effectively implemented and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with leaders to drive people performance, engagement, and development.

Support workforce planning, organisational change, and business transformation initiatives.

Ensure compliance with employment legislation and HR best practice.

Lead talent and succession planning activities across the business.

Use people data and insights to support informed decision-making.

Collaborate with recruitment teams to deliver effective resourcing plans that support diversity, inclusion, and internal mobility.

About You

CIPD Level 5 qualified (or equivalent).

Proven HR Business Partner/People Partner experience within a complex, geographically dispersed organisation.

Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.

Commercially minded with the ability to deliver pragmatic people solutions.

Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and analytical skills.

Proficient in Microsoft Office and comfortable working with people data.

Join us and help shape a culture of high performance, inclusion, and sustainable growth.

About Us

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

About Us

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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