Human Resources Business Partner

Alexander Lloyd is delighted to be exclusively partnering with an engineering company, on the recruitment of an HR Business Partner.

This is a high-impact, senior role operating at leadership level, partnering closely with the senior leadership team to shape and deliver a progressive people agenda. The position plays a pivotal role in enabling business performance through effective workforce planning, talent development, employee relations and cultural leadership.

• Act as a strategic people advisor to the senior leadership team, aligning HR priorities with business objectives and long-term workforce needs.
• Lead workforce planning, succession, and capability development initiatives to ensure future organisational resilience.
• Drive employee engagement, inclusion, and wellbeing activity, embedding a positive and performance-led culture across the business.
• Oversee recruitment and resourcing activity, ensuring attraction and onboarding approaches are consistent, inclusive, and aligned to employer brand values.
• Provide expert, commercially balanced advice on complex employee relations matters, ensuring compliance, consistency, and risk management.
• Support leaders through organisational change programmes, including restructures, acquisitions, and TUPE-related activity.
• Build leadership and management capability through coaching, development interventions, and pragmatic HR guidance.
• Utilise people data and insight to inform decision-making, track key metrics, and provide meaningful reporting to senior stakeholders.

• Background in engineering, construction or similar regulated sectors would be advantageous.
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to translate people strategy into tangible business outcomes.
• Extensive experience managing complex employee relations and change programmes.
• Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders while building trusted, credible relationships.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment legislation and best practice HR frameworks.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent professional HR accreditation is desirable.

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