We are looking for an experienced HR professional to deliver high-quality, proactive support across DBD. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor on all people-related matters, ensuring alignment with company policies, best practice, and current employment legislation.
You will play a key role in shaping a positive employee experience, driving continuous improvement across the full employment lifecycle, and supporting leaders to effectively manage and develop their teams.
What you will be doing:
Develop, implement, and continuously improve HR policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with evolving employment legislation and clear internal communication
Review and enhance the end-to-end employee lifecycle, identifying opportunities to improve engagement, experience, and retention
Lead on learning and development initiatives, ensuring our people have the skills and support needed to succeed
Provide expert guidance to managers and employees on HR policies, employment law, and best practice across areas such as recruitment, disciplinary, grievance, and employee relations
Manage complex employee relations cases and investigations with professionalism, fairness, and consistency
Drive performance management processes and continuous improvement, including ownership of platforms
Conduct market benchmarking to inform salary reviews, ensuring our reward and benefits offering remains competitive and aligned with employee needs
Formal qualifications or training:
Proven experience in a HR role, operating at both strategic and operational levels
Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
Confident advising on complex employee relations matters and managing sensitive situations
Experience in developing and improving HR processes, systems, and policies
Ideally CIPD Level 7 qualified (or working towards)
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Make a Difference with DBD:
At DBD, we know you're looking for more than just a job - you aspire to make a real impact in the nuclear industry. We offer unique opportunities for growth, empowering you to take influential roles within client organisations.
Our dedicated team collaborates with clients to positively influence projects across Defence, Decommissioning and New Builds. Having doubled in headcount year-on-year, over the past two years, we continue to welcome new, talented individuals to our team.
We're committed to your success. DBD invests in your development and supports your career trajectory in any direction you want to take it.
Join us to play a key role in shaping the nuclear sector's future.
Make a difference today with DBD.
Benefits: up to 20% bonus, 25 days holiday, enhanced pension, private health insurance, private dental, and more
DBD is an independent global enterprise providing innovative solutions to complex technical, engineering and strategic challenges in highly regulated industries. Our success since launch in 2004 has been built on the quality of our delivery to our Clients, provided by our management and technical expertise. This consistent high quality delivery has led to the establishment of trust based, long term relationships with our Clients.
Since 2004 we have had an unswerving focus on recruitment of leading management and technical specialists who, on average, have over 20 years international experience in front end design, process and systems engineering, commissioning, decommissioning, safety and regulation in the nuclear, power and chemical plant sectors.
Today, our specialists operate across many major processing and power sites, including key nuclear sites in the UK. We also provide services to Clients and Partners in North America, Europe, Japan and South Africa. Whilst we guard our independence fiercely, we work with or alongside most major companies without becoming in any way biased towards any individual technologies, designs or operators.
A key differentiator for DBD is our dedication to building a clear understanding of the Client’s requirement, their objectives and success criteria. The expertise of our personnel underpins this quality-assured approach to all of our work.
