Associate HR Consultant

Associate HR Consultant – Business Operations & Global Disciplines

At Buro Happold, our people are at the heart of everything we do.

We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded Associate HR Consultant to join our Business Operations and Global Disciplines HR team.

The role can be based from our Bath, London or Dubai office with hybrid working.

This is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional who enjoys balancing strategic people initiatives with hands‑on HR advisory support.

You’ll partner with leaders and managers across the business, helping them navigate complex people challenges, drive employee engagement, support organisational change, and create an inclusive and high‑performing workplace.

Working closely with the Head of HR Business Operations, Chief People Officer and wider People team, you’ll have the opportunity to influence people strategy while delivering a first‑class employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle.

• What you’ll be doing
• Provide expert HR advice and guidance to managers and leaders across Business Operations and Global Disciplines.
• Lead and support a wide range of employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management and flexible working cases.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to support recruitment, onboarding and probation processes.
• Drive employee engagement, retention and wellbeing initiatives, including culture survey action planning.
• Support talent management, succession planning, performance management and employee development activities.
• Contribute to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and help embed inclusive people practices across the business.
• Analyse people data and provide insights that support informed business decisions.
• Coach and develop managers to build confidence and capability in people management.
• Support organisational change and transformation projects as required.
• What we’re looking for

You’ll be an experienced HR professional who combines strong technical HR knowledge with excellent stakeholder management skills.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Strong HR Generalist background with significant employee relations experience.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and its practical application.
• Experience providing HR advice and support to managers across a broad range of people matters.
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship‑building skills.
• Ability to make balanced, pragmatic decisions in a fast‑paced environment.
• High levels of integrity, discretion and professionalism.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Desirable

• Experience within engineering, consultancy or professional services environments.
• Experience working in a global organisation.
• Mediation, coaching or facilitation skills.
• CIPD qualification (or equivalent), or working towards qualification.
• Degree‑level education.

Ready to make an impact?

If you’re a proactive HR professional who enjoys building strong relationships, solving complex people challenges, and helping organisations thrive, we’d love to hear from you.

What we offer you

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• 10% car allowance.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3 pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• Commitment to continuous development through learning and development programmes.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• Supportive wellbeing programme, including employee assistance and wellbeing activities.
• Inclusive environment with social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that ensures you’ll be supported wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold.
• A place for everyone

Buro Happold values individual flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance.

We welcome applications from those 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 underrepresented in the industry.

We have much to learn from one another.

Embracing differences 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 recruitment@burohappold. com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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