Senior HR Advisor

From seabed to surface, Acteon develops solutions to the energy industry's most complex problems. We harness data, engineering knowledge, and operational expertise to efficiently design, install, maintain, extend the life of, and decommission offshore energy assets to ensure they deliver maximum economic value.

Using the latest technology, we gather and analyse hard-to-reach data in the most challenging environments. We partner with customers to apply it to their specific needs and challenges and devise tailored plans to help them safely and responsibly accelerate projects and reduce the total cost of operations.

This allows our customers to focus on enhancing their core operations, growing sustainably and profitably and, ultimately, delivering the energy the world needs.

We are looking to hire a Senior HR Advisor on a full time, permanent basis. Based at our facility in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen the Senior HR Advisor plays a key role in delivering a high quality, proactive HR service across the UK and UAE regions. Acting as a trusted advisor to employees and managers, the role provides expert guidance on complex employee relations, performance, policy, and compliance, ensuring HR activity aligns with local legislation, company policies, and organisational culture.

The postholder will lead on key HR processes, ensure seamless employee lifecycle management, coach managers to build capability, and partner closely with the HR Centres of Excellence and regional leaders to support strategy, talent, and organisational development.

Duties &

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and employees on complex ER issues, ensuring compliance with UK and UAE labour regulations.
• Lead investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, capability and performance issues, probation reviews, and exit processes.
• Manage TUPE related activity and organisational change in collaboration with Senior HRBP and Legal.
• Monitor and manage sickness absence trends, escalating risks to managers and Senior HRBP.

• Act as a senior first point of contact to managers, empowering them to lead effectively and reducing repeat queries through coaching and capability building.
• Support leaders to implement consistent, fair, and proactive people management practices across both regions.

• Lead the monthly pay flow file process, ensuring accurate inclusion of new starters, contractual changes, and benefit adjustments before submission to Finance.
• Maintain accurate and compliant HR records in the HR system (APP), performing monthly data cleanses.
• Produce high quality documentation such as letters, contracts, reports, briefing notes, and presentations.
• Act as a mentor for junior members of the HR team.

• Partner with the Recruitment team to guide and support hiring managers throughout the end-to-end recruitment process.
• Ensure job descriptions are accurate, updated, and aligned with organisational needs.
• Support the attraction, development, and retention of employees across both regions.

• Manage onboarding and preemployment processes, including offer letters, contracts, right-to-work checks, screening, and induction activities.
• Oversee lifecycle activities including probation, changes to terms, family friendly processes (maternity, paternity), absence management, and leaver administration including exit interviews.
• Maintain and administer employee benefits schemes, ensuring accurate data entry.

• Monitor all visa and residency processes, ensuring timely renewals and compliance with UAE labour laws.
• Track visa expiry dates and proactively advise managers and employees.
• Ensure all policy implementation and HR practice meets regional requirements in both the UK and UAE.
• Support and deliver annual HR processes including salary review, bonus schemes, retention initiatives, and workforce planning exercises.
• Collaborate with the HR Centre of Excellence to land reward, talent, and engagement programmes effectively.

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