Employee Relations Consultant

6 months ago

Birchwood, United Kingdom Jacobs Full time

**Location**: Birchwood, GB
**Category**: Human Resources
**Job ID**: COR0000Q8

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the opportunity**:
Reporting to HR Director, Europe, the Employee Relations Consultant will be responsible for advising on complex employee relations issues, policies,
processes and practices, such as investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, performance management, redundancies and terminations including settlement agreements. The Employee Relations Consultant will be required to work on their own cases as well as support and advise on cases carried out by their HR Consultant colleagues. They will also engage and work collaboratively with our, HR Business Partners, business managers and internal legal counsel on ER matters.

You will be based in Warrington or Glasgow.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Conduct and conclude confidential ER cases ensuring compliance with company policies, procedures and current employment legislation/regulations.
- Escalate cases, when appropriate, for review by the HR Director and/or internal Legal.
- Ensure all ER cases are recorded and managed through the internal case management tool.
- Produce periodic reports, gather and analyse relevant data and metrics to identify trends, problem areas and issues and make recommendations on corrective actions and preventative measures.
- Conduct research on employment legislation and statutory regulations and make recommendations on their applicability to the Company.
- Work towards continuous process improvement, making recommendations and taking actions to deliver best practice and avoid escalation, eradicate issues, errors and minimise risks.
- Support in major change programmes as required
- Coach line managers and deliver appropriate training on effective management of ER issues
- Support and provide guidance to HR and business managers on large scale redundancy programmes and collective redundancy process.
- Support employees with disabilities with Reasonable Adjustments whilst ensuring all legislation is considered and adhered to.

**Here’s what you’ll need**:

- Possess a strong foundation of HR and ER experience specific to investigation of employee complaints
- Extensive experience and skill in conducting complex employment related investigations and supporting managers to draft investigative reports and reach appropriate outcomes.
- Proven ability to effectively organise, prioritise, and handle multiple assignments simultaneously.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to quickly build strong and maintain effective working relationships, delivering service excellence.
- Experienced and confident in coaching and partnering with a broad stakeholder group from line managers through to Directors, with the ability to influence and challenge others.

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. **Find out more about life at Jacobs.**

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - **find out more about our employee networks here.

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