Employee Relations Advisor

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**Tess Dawes**:**Benefits**:

Life assurance
Kier Rewards
Additional holiday purchase opportunities
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
Enhanced family leave & policies
Share plan schemes
Free health & wellbeing services
Opportunity to purchase health benefits & insurance
-**Employee Relations Advisor**:

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- **We're looking for an Employee Relations Advisor to join our HR team based in the North of the UK**:

- **Location**: North of the UK - Hybrid working available, with travel to sites and offices required
**Hours**:37.5 Hours Per week - Flexibility on working hours available - Just let us know when you speak to us
- **What will you be responsible for?**:

- As an Employee Relations Advisor, you'll be working within the HR team, supporting them in delivering fair, consistent, and legally compliant handling of employee relations matters and projects.
- Your day-to-day will include:

- Managing a caseload of ER issues including investigations, disciplinary, grievance, capability, performance, and absence cases
- Providing proactive, best-practice advice to managers on ER matters
- Supporting investigations and formal hearings, including documentation and note-taking
- Advising on absence management and liaising with Occupational Health professionals
- Contributing to HR policy development and delivering ER training to managers
**What are we looking for?**:

- This role of Employee Relations Advisor is great for you if:

- You have experience managing complex ER cases and providing expert advice
You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- You are confident working independently and collaboratively within a team
- You have knowledge of employment law and HR best practice
- **Rewards and benefits**
- We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
- **Diversity and inclusion**
- Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
- As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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Employee Relations Advisor Job Description Nov 2025.docx
- **Location**: Sheffield
- **Vacancy ID**: 9280
- **Background check**: DBS - Basic
- **Closing date**:18 Dec 2025
- **Flexible Working**: Yes
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
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