Description and requirements

At Skanska, we're shaping the way we live, work and connect. As one of the world's largest construction and development companies, we work together with customers, communities and partners to shape a better society.

You will be working in the Human Resources Leadership Team, supporting the Cementation Operating Unit.

We are currently looking for a Human Resources Director, 12 month fixed term contract who will

As the Human Resources Director, you will:

• Act as a strategic Business Partner to the Operating Unit/Enabling Function, aligning people plans with business goals, influencing senior leaders, and leading the HR Operations team.
• Deliver workforce planning, talent, and capability strategies to ensure the business has the right people, skills, and development in place to meet current and future needs.
• Drive a high-performance culture through effective employee relations, delivery of annual HR processes, and robust goal-setting and development planning for all employees.
• Lead initiatives that create safe, well, and highly engaged teams, using engagement, absence, and people data to identify trends, improve organisational health, and support targeted action.
• Champion inclusive leadership, diversity, and succession planning by building diverse talent pipelines, promoting an inclusive culture, and ensuring strong short- and long-term leadership capability across the business.

We are looking for:

• Strategic people planning: Ability to develop and deliver effective people and workforce plans, with clear visibility of resource and skills needs and actions to maintain low vacancy levels.
• Strong HR leadership and governance: Capability to put effective governance in place for key people activities, coach and develop the HR team, and build succession within the HR function.
• Performance, learning, and employee relations expertise: Proven ability to drive training delivery, learning adoption, PDR and development plan completion, and strong ER capability among line managers.
• Talent, succession, and inclusion focus: Skilled in creating talent development plans, building strong and diverse succession pipelines, and delivering practical inclusion and diversity plans.
• Data-driven and improvement-oriented mindset: Strong analytical ability to interpret trends, identify correlations, share best practice, and turn people data into actionable insights that improve engagement and retention.

What we offer:

• 24/7 digital GP service for you and your family
• Financial wellbeing and employee assistance
• Professional development
• Enhanced family benefits (including maternity, paternity, dependants and parental bereavement leave)

Inclusion and Diversity

We thrive through embracing differences as we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it The Skanska Way.

Flexible working

Where possible, we offer a range of flexible working options, and we would be happy to discuss this at the application stage if this is something you'd like to explore.

Reasonable adjustments

We want you to feel confident and supported throughout every stage of our recruitment process. If you need any adjustments to help you during your application, please contact us at or call - Option 5 & 1.

Closing date

We encourage you to apply as early as possible, as the closing date may be subject to change.

If this role would be of interest, please click apply and join our team of 27,000 problem solvers and creative thinkers, where knowledge is our greatest creation. We share, listen and support your success - every step of the way.