Senior Human Resources Advisor

Job description

Senior HR Advisor

Location: Bridgwater

Contract: Full-time, on-site (5 days per week)

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior HR Advisor to join our team in Bridgwater. In this visible and hands-on role, you will provide day-to-day operational HR support across a complex, fast-paced site, ensuring alignment with UK HR policies, client practices, and UK regulatory requirements. You will be a trusted partner to managers and employees, enabling effective people decisions and smooth workforce mobilisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide professional HR advice and first-line support to managers in line with business objectives, policies, and UK employment law.
• Deliver day-to-day HR operations across recruitment, onboarding, pay & benefits, performance management, employee relations, communications, training & development, and terminations.
• Manage referencing for new starters, verifying accuracy and compliance with policy and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee vetting and identification checks, ensuring complete and compliant documentation aligned with client and UK standards.
• Support visa application processes to enable mobilisation of key employees from other entities to the site.
• Monitor, chase, and coordinate HR process inputs to minimise delays to site resourcing and mobilisation.
• Respond to HR queries, providing accurate guidance or escalating appropriately.
• Process leavers in a timely manner (security access, property return, payroll notifications, documentation).
• Maintain accurate, real-time HR and finance system data and produce standard and ad‑hoc HR management information (MI).
• Provide responsive administrative and coordination support to the HR Director and Operational Leads.
• Identify and recommend improvements to HR processes and procedures to reflect best practice and drive efficiency.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree qualification in HR or a related discipline.
• Working towards CIPD qualification (or equivalent professional accreditation).
• Demonstrable experience in a generalist HR role within a fast-paced, operational environment (infrastructure/engineering/industrial sectors desirable).
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment practices and HR processes (onboarding, vetting, ER, performance, MI/reporting).
• Confident advisor with excellent stakeholder management, organisation, and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working on-site five days per week..

What We’re Looking For

• A practical problem-solver who can balance compliance with pace.
• A clear communicator who builds trust with managers and employees.
• A proactive, process-minded professional who spots and delivers improvements.
• High integrity and discretion when dealing with sensitive information.

Additional Information

• This role is based full-time on-site at Bridgwater.
• Appointment is subject to successful completion of pre-employment checks, including referencing and right-to-work.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Bridgwater

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

04-03-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English