Job Description

Role: People Advisor
Location: Cumbria
Salary: £40,000 (pro-rata) + car allowance (£5k)
Employment Type: 9 Month FTC, Hybrid (3 days office/2 home)

We're working with a major UK Civil Engineering and Construction business. Together, we're currently looking for a People Advisor to help during a critical period of transformation. Reporting to the Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll step into a high-impact role focused on organisational restructure and Employee Relations (ER) across a diverse, operationally complex workforce.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leading and advising on complex ER casework, including grievances, disciplinaries, and performance issues.

• Supporting redundancy and redeployment processes, ensuring compliance, clarity, and compassion.

• Acting as a trusted partner to line managers – sometimes coaching, sometimes taking the reins – depending on the scenario.

• Supporting investigations and hearings, offering clear, confident guidance in a union-heavy, change-sensitive setting.

• Managing stakeholder relationships across workforce planning, recruitment, and operational teams.

• Promoting a positive employee experience in times of transition, aligned to business needs and employment law.

About You:

• Proven experience in an HR/People Advisor role with a strong ER focus.

• Confidence navigating complex unionised environments.

• Deep working knowledge of UK employment law, especially around redundancy and organisational change.

• Exceptional communication, problem-solving and coaching skills.

• Diligent, hands-on approach to delivery.

• Flexibility to be on-site 3 days per week

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Don't meet every single requirement? At Realise, we are dedicated to helping our clients build diverse, inclusive and authentic workplaces, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we would encourage you to apply anyway! You might be just the candidate we're looking for!

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