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.