About The Role
Ready to make a real difference to how people experience work?
At
Balfour Beatty, we’re on a mission to create an inclusive, engaging environment where every colleague can thrive. We’re looking for a passionate
Employee Experience Partner to champion this vision across the UK.
What you'll be doing
- Shape the employee journey: Design and deliver programmes that make every stage of the lifecycle—from onboarding to exit—positive and impactful.
- Drive engagement: Lead our Group Engagement Survey and lifecycle surveys, turning data into actionable insights that boost retention and performance.
- Be a culture catalyst: Embed inclusion and respect through transformation initiatives, ensuring we truly Value Everyone.
- Empower leaders and champions: Equip managers and Engagement Champions with tools, resources, and inspiration to foster high engagement.
- Stay ahead of the curve: Bring fresh ideas from external networks and best practice to keep Balfour Beatty at the forefront of employee experience.
Who we're looking for
- A role model for our behaviours: Talk Positively, Collaborate Relentlessly, Encourage Constantly, Make a Difference, Value Everyone.
- Strong analytical skills to turn data into strategies that tackle retention risks and boost engagement.
- Experience in project management, survey design, and collaboration with internal teams and suppliers.
- Skilled in facilitating focus groups, building relationships, and influencing at all levels.
- Broad HR/L&D expertise with a passion for creating inclusive cultures.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to inspire and engage stakeholders.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
