HR Advisor

Your HR Expertise Can Help Build Tomorrow – Join Buro Happold Today

At Buro Happold, people are at the heart of everything we do. As we continue to grow across our UK offices, we're looking for an enthusiastic and proactive HR Advisor to join our collaborative HR team and help support our people, leaders and disciplines across the region.

This role sits within our UK HR team of nine and reports to one of our UK HR Consultants. You'll play a vital part in ensuring a high-quality HR service for our employees, working closely with HR Shared Services, line managers and senior stakeholders.

About The Role:

As an HR Advisor, you will be a trusted partner—supporting on a wide range of people matters and helping to deliver a consistent, pragmatic and high-quality HR service. You will build strong relationships, provide credible advice, and ensure our processes run smoothly and accurately.

What You'll be doing:

• Act as a key HR point of contact for line managers and employees, owning and managing day-to-day advisory support.
• Work closely with HR Shared Services to ensure seamless operational delivery.
• Handle and escalate complex HR queries with clarity and professionalism.
• Coordinate onboarding, pre-employment checks, and support talent acquisition compliance.
• Support promotion processes, including interview coordination and stakeholder communication.
• Lead low-level Employee Relations cases and support HR Consultants with more complex matters.
• Guide managers through flexible working, probation reviews, absences and occupational health processes.
• Monitor HR data including WTD compliance, TOIL, leave and CPO goals.
• Manage immigration processes, sponsorship administration and working-abroad requests.
• Support engagement initiatives, analyse survey feedback and conduct exit interviews.
• Manage secondments, assignments and cross-region transfers.
• Contribute to budget planning, equal pay audits and operational meetings.

What We Are Looking For:

• Solid HR generalist grounding with proven experience managing Employee Relations cases.
• Strong working knowledge of UK Employment Law.
• Confident communicator with the ability to build trusted relationships quickly.
• Able to work independently, prioritise effectively and make considered decisions.
• Comfortable handling both operational and administrative tasks.
• Strong Microsoft Office and data analysis skills.
• Experience providing HR advice within a professional environment.

Why Join Buro Happold?

At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You'll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.

What we offer you

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements
• Attractive salary
• Discretionary bonus
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
• Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies
• A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
• An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.

Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other's differences is key, we want employees to feel they don't have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. #LI-TG1