People Manager

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Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.?

Right now, we're bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.

We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

People Manager

Benefits: Flexible Working, Hybrid Working Model, Pension, Extra Holiday Purchase Scheme, & Many More

Role Context:

The main purpose of this role is to proactively partner with the business and lead the employment life cycle through an integrated and aligned approach across the business, and people team. Acting as a business partner, you will manage expectations, engage leaders, and build relationships to successfully deliver on the Global and UK People Strategy, aligned to wider Business Strategy.

You will partner with the business to build a competitively superior organisation by attracting, developing and retaining talent to ensure that people with the right skills and motivations are in the right place at the right time to meet business needs.

You will lead with our values & behaviours, including the critical few behaviours in everything you do.

You'll be:

• Proactively lead the employment life cycle delivery of the People Group through an integrated and aligned approach across the function and with the business to provide support in an HR generalist environment through engagement and realising stakeholder satisfaction (customers, projects, contracts, functions, employees, contractors, colleagues, etc)
• HR delivery across all lines of business through proactive, commercially aware decision making, change management and continuous improvement to realise stakeholder engagement.
• Champion business and industry initiatives such as gender pay gap, STEM, DE&I, etc
• Proactive identification of talent / high potential and their development with a focus on tangible engagement and retention
• Proactive business engagement in succession and resource planning and management together (people forums and talent development) with maintaining and sharing market awareness to ensure attractive remuneration and benefits (in accordance with global reward strategy)
• Data ownership to ensure accuracy and real time availability to support business decision making and mitigate commercial leakage.
• Implement and lead proactive performance and absence management to enable an engaged culture of development.
• Proactive identification of core talent and continuing lateral development to retain and engage via the design and proactive facilitation of people forums and shared outputs
• Driving continuous improvement in people team practices and processes
• Active participation in UK People team leadership across the disciplines and engagement across the UK functions
• Mentoring and development of senior and high potential team members across the region

You'll have:

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of employment law at all stages of the employee life cycle.
• Expert understanding of the terms and conditions for business units supported.
• Strong industry knowledge
• Strong change management knowledge and experience
• Working knowledge of data analytics and the role of AI in HR

Experience

• Strategic business partnering - proactive collaboration and influencing of business stakeholders to provide advice and guidance on all elements of the employee life cycle
• Commercially aware decision making, change management and continuous improvement
• Proactive risk management
• Expert employee relations experience - including managing cases around absence, performance, disciplinary, grievances
• Coaching and developing line managers
• Mentoring and coaching senior team members
• Project Managing skills
• Analytical thinking: ability to analyse and make data-driven decisions.

Personal Style

• Able and willing to challenge situations in line with best practice
• Inquisitive and curious; seeks our new ways and approaches to issues.
• Strong Collaboration.
• Leads ownership & accountability (Completer-finisher)
• Authentic; accessible and people oriented.
• Strategic thinker
• Resilient.
• Adaptable; embraces change.

Leadership Style

You will demonstrate or be developing the following leadership skills:

• Influencing.
• Embrace Future Thinking.
• Inspire Ownership.
• Make Connections.
• Be Curious.
• Stand for Inclusion
• Coach to Unlock Potential.
• Make Purposeful Decisions.
• Create Trusted Space to Challenge.
• Be Resourceful & Resilient.
• Doing what's right over quick and easy

Moving Forward:

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard. And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here. And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.