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.