HR Project Manager

About The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the People Team at Sunbelt Rentals UK as a HR Project Manager!

In this position, the HR Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering initiatives aimed at enhancing the People function within the organisation. The role requires comprehensive HR expertise coupled with advanced project management skills, including the ability to develop project plans, establish timelines and milestones, allocate resources effectively, manage budgets, and achieve defined outcomes. Additionally, the individual will oversee the Company’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion strategy, which encompasses the facilitation and support of Employee Resource Groups and the development of new initiatives aligned with external trends.

Responsibilities also include managing programmes that promote employee wellbeing, focusing on both physical and mental health.

• Identifying improvement opportunities
• Formulating a project charter
• Designing a project plan
• Identifying required resources
• Ensuring there is required budgets
• Launching projects
• Managing projects
• Communicating progress across the board
• Ensuring result delivery on time, spec, and budget
• Closing out projects

Projects you would be responsible for will include:
Restructuring, TUPE, Employee Engagement, EDI, and Wellbeing.

You’ll be joining a highly successful FTSE
100 company, the UK’s largest equipment rental provider. We provide an industry‑leading flexible rewards package including generous holiday allowance (with the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave), life assurance, retail discount scheme, employee recognition awards and a great Company pension scheme. Other benefits will depend on your job role and may include company car and private medical insurance.

To succeed as a HR Project Manager you will bring the following skill‑set and behaviours:

• CIPD Level 5 or 7 or similar preferable
• Recognised project management qualification or prepared to work towards e.g., P2 or other Project Management Tools
• Good computer literacy, including project management software
• Proven team leadership ability
• Ability to work under deadline pressure
• Excellent administrative skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Conflict-resolution and problem‑solving ability

The role will predominantly be field based and you will be expected to hold a driving licence as frequent travel is required, which will involve overnight stays.

Whether it’s construction sites, energy projects, government initiatives, or unforgettable events, Sunbelt Rentals deliver the equipment and expertise to move every industry forward. With our ambition to an employer of choice this makes Sunbelt Rentals an ideal destination for your next career move.

We are committed to the fair treatment of our staff, potential staff, and users of our services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical/mental disability, or offending background.

Having a criminal record will not automatically bar an individual from working with us. We judge each case on its own merits, taking into account the relevance of the conviction to the role, the circumstances, and the time passed since the offence.