Senior People Partner in Doncaster, Yorkshire

We are looking for a Senior People Partner to join our small but ambitious people team. The right person will be pivotal in shaping our culture and ensuring a positive and professional employee life cycle across Story Plant, embedding our values and 'do it right' ethos. This is a brand-new role and a chance to make your mark, influence how we grow, and help us build capability as we integrate the Geotechnical team into our Plant operation and further develop our regional structure.

In this role, you'll be a trusted partner to our Regional Managers and leaders, ensuring our people feel supported, valued and set up for success. You'll focus on:

• Building capability and confidence in senior and team leaders through coaching, mentoring and practical support
• Supporting the development of a consistent leadership approach across depots
• Providing calm, grounded guidance through ER cases
• Ensuring that our people initiatives are well designed, understood and deliver maximum potential return
• Supporting local engagement and recruitment activity
• Helping us become an employer of choice in the community
• Playing a key role in integrating the Geotechnical team into the wider company
• Supporting change in a positive, people-centred way
• Helping us embed new structures and ways of working smoothly
• Developing and reporting on people metrics to highlight any trends or issues and providing recommendations

We're looking for someone who is:

• Empathetic, approachable and grounded
• A generalist experienced across employee relations, coaching and people development
• Comfortable with change and organisational growth
• Able to influence with credibility and confidence

Story Plant provides plant hire services across England and Scotland with 4 Regional Depots; Birmingham, Doncaster, Carlisle and Salsburgh. The role will require an element of travel to each to support the teams but be predominantly based from Doncaster. You'll thrive here if you enjoy spending time with people, building trust, and helping leaders at all levels be the best versions of themselves.

At Story Plant, we invest in our people. We provide award-winning training and development opportunities for all colleagues to help you get to where you want to be in your career. We offer an excellent working environment along with competitive pay, matched Company pension contributions, help towards healthcare costs, national retail discounts and access to our cycle to work scheme. We care about our communities too and offer our employees two paid days for volunteering each year to spend as a team or individually.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do - the way we work and the behaviours we display. We believe that this is what makes Story Plant and our people exceptional:

• GROUNDED - Everyone is equal at Story. We are down to earth and treat each other with respect.
• HARDWORKING - We all pull our weight and work hard for each other.
• PROUD - We are proud of our safety, our projects, our people, our clients and the success we create together.
• FAMILY - We nurture, train, develop and keep our people safe, just like a family. We are inclusive and do the right thing for the business and its people.
• TRUSTED - What we say is what we do. Our clients, our people and our communities trust us to do it right.
• WINNERS - We are hungry for success and want to be the best performing contractor for our clients, our people and our communities.

Every Story Matters. We are proud to be a place where everyone can be part of the Story! As part of our pledge to eliminate discrimination and encourage diversity among our Story Team, our Every Story policy ensures all employees are a part of a diverse environment and always feel included. All applicants will receive careful consideration for employment regardless of who you are, where you come from or what you believe in.

Think you'd be a good fit? Successful applicants will be contacted shortly after the closing date.