Job Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

The Labour Compliance Manager is responsible for ensuring the organisation fully complies with employment legislation, labour standards, workforce regulations, and internal policies. This role oversees compliance across the supply chain and workforce operations, manages audits, and supports senior leadership in maintaining high ethical and legal standards relating to labour practices.

You’ll play a key role delivering some of our biggest data centre construction projects throughout the UK and Europe.

There will be travel to project locations required. (11/3 day rotation or Relocation)

Role and Responsibilities

Regulatory & Legal Compliance

• Monitor and interpret labour laws, employment regulations, working time rules, wage standards, and industry-specific labour requirements.
• Ensure policies, contracts, and HR practices comply with all statutory obligations.
• Advise leadership and operational teams on labour compliance issues and regulatory changes.

Audits & Monitoring

• Plan and conduct internal labour compliance audits across operations and suppliers.
• Identify non-compliance areas and recommend corrective actions.
• Maintain records of all audits, findings, and remediation plans.

Policy Development & Implementation

• Implement labour compliance policies, procedures, and frameworks.
• Ensure consistent and fair application of labour-related policies across the organisation.

Supply Chain & Contractor Compliance

• Evaluate supplier and contractor adherence to labour standards, including right-to-work, health and safety, and ethical employment practices.
• Manage third‑party assessments and due diligence processes.
• Support supplier improvement plans and escalate issues where necessary.

Employee Relations & Workforce Management

• Provide guidance on labour issues such as working conditions, overtime, grievances, and disciplinary procedures.
• Partner with HR and operations to resolve labour compliance concerns.
• Support investigations into workforce-related complaints or incidents.

Training & Awareness

• Deliver training sessions to managers and staff on labour laws, ethical practices, and labour rights.
• Create awareness materials to reinforce compliant working environments.

Reporting & Documentation

• Prepare reports for senior management on compliance status, risks, and corrective actions.
• Maintain detailed and secure documentation of audits, incidents, and workforce records.

Qualifications & Experience:

Essential

• Strong knowledge of employment law, labour regulations, and ethical labour standards.
• Experience in labour compliance, HR compliance, or workforce auditing.
• Excellent analytical, investigative, and problem‑solving skills.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• High attention to detail and strong ethical judgement.
• Degree in Human Resources, Law, Business, or a related field.
• Time served experience in labour compliance, HR, workforce planning, or risk management roles

Desirable

• Experience in supply chain labour compliance or contractor management.
• Certification in HR, employment law, compliance, or ethical labour practice.
• Experience in sectors with regulated labour practices (e.g., construction, manufacturing, logistics, facilities management).

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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