Project People Partner

Alness, Scotland, United Kingdom

1/13/2025

Murphy is recruiting for a Project People Partner to work in our Energy business unit on site at SSE ASTI project.

Our business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all our customers. Throughout our history we have strived to challenge the norm and incorporate a wide range of new technologies and capabilities to ensure we meet the ever-changing markets and demands. Today we support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries - ensuring their energy security for decades to come.

We offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. We deliver Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Our continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures we remain at the forefront of the industry, and is demonstrated in our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.

A day in the life of a Murphy Project People Partner

• Collaboratively work with the Murphy People team to ensure a consistent approach to the management of people across the project, including HR Policies, recruitment and selection practices, retention approaches, performance management, absence management etc.
• With direction from People Director and Senior People BP aid in enabling the projects to fully understand their key business performance issues, objectives and drivers, and associated people requirements for both the current and future business challenges.
• Working with the project senior management team and Learning and Organisational Development to identify succession gaps within the project and address these to support the delivery of long term project objectives
• Performance management – Champion high performance culture across the project. Coach, influence, up-skill and encourage senior leaders to provide clear direction, and line managers to provide continuous goal clarity, feedback and development
• Management of the people aspect, of any restructures, ensuring redeployment and redundancy are run according to policy and best practice and completed within timescales, budget and legislation.
• Regular review of workforce planning to proactively identify any issues with regards to resourcing
• Undertake grievances and disciplinaries or investigations and appeals and manage (and attend) employment tribunal claims /cases where necessary.
• Participate in specialist projects (e.g. employee engagement, grading/salary review,). Ensure projects progress and completion of projects to deadline and cost
  
  

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• CIPD Qualified
• Established Human Resources professional with a strong and sustained track record of leading, coaching and building capability across all levels
• Proven experience and comprehensive track record of managing employee relations cases, including TUPE, Acquisitions, Restructuring & Redundancy
• Established experience of coaching and developing managers and Senior Managers
• Willingness to travel within the UK and stay away. Full driving license is essential
  
  

What’s in it for you?

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc
  
  

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Gold Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £3.3b and £39m Invested in environmentally friendly plant there really is #MoretoMurphy

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Sarah Lindley on 07568 607759 to discuss in more detail.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK