Assistant HR Business Partner
Location: Home based with regular travel to our North based locations
Travel: Regular travel across the North of England required
Employment Type: Full‑Time, Permanent
Working Hours: Monday – Friday
What’s in it for you…
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the option to buy more
Hybrid working
Group Personal Pension Plan
Car allowance
Career development & progression with the opportunity to earn professional qualifications
24/7 access to a virtual GP and Mental health support & counselling services
Cycle to Work scheme
Discount club - supermarkets, phone bills, gyms & more!
Life assurance cover
Long service recognition
Active local social committees
Regular social events
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded Assistant HR Business Partner to join our Power division, partnering closely with Senior Leadership Teams and operational leaders to deliver impactful people solutions.
In this role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor, owning the full employee lifecycle and ensuring that our people strategy drives performance, enhances culture, and builds long-term organisational capability. This is a highly visible role where you will balance hands-on operational delivery with strategic, data-led insight.
Working alongside the Head of HR, you’ll play a key role in delivering the divisional people agenda, aligned to the wider HR strategy. You’ll influence workforce effectiveness, strengthen leadership capability, enhance engagement, and support critical business change initiatives.
This role also provides the opportunity to lead on the people aspects of growth activity, including acquisitions, TUPE transfers, and integration programmes, ensuring they are delivered smoothly, compliantly, and with strong commercial outcomes.
What You’ll Be Doing
As an Assistant HR Business Partner, you will:
You’ll also provide hands-on support across the full employee lifecycle, including:
Alongside this, you’ll:
About You
You’re a confident and credible HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, matrix environment. You may already be operating at HR Business Partner level, or you’re an experienced Senior HR Advisor ready to step up into your next challenge.
You’ll bring:
You’ll also be:
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At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
