HR Operations Manager, Labor & Employee Relations

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🌐 United Kingdom, Ireland – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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GE Vernova

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

GE Vernova is a leader in the energy sector with over 130 years of experience, dedicated to electrifying the world while decarbonizing it. The company offers a broad portfolio of energy solutions including gas, hydro, nuclear, and wind power technologies, aimed at providing reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. With a strong focus on innovation, GE Vernova plays a significant role in reducing the carbon footprint of global power systems and supports the transition to net-zero emissions by 2030.

📋 Description

• Lead and execute labour and employee relations strategy across GE Vernova’s UK and Ireland entities • Advise senior business leaders and HR teams on UK and Irish employment law and industrial relations • Manage collective bargaining, trade union recognition, industrial action disputes, CAC proceedings, workforce changes, and transformation projects • Design and implement proactive employee and labour relations frameworks • Coordinate information and consultation processes and facilitate formal dispute resolution • Manage external legal counsel and industrial relations consultants • Track labour relations activities in auditable systems and maintain statutory records • Lead negotiations on collective agreements, annual pay reviews, union recognition/derecognition, and CAC proceedings • Direct industrial action disputes and balloting processes using risk mitigation and contingency planning • Lead collective redundancy consultations and major organizational redesign projects • Maintain dispute logs, project milestones, data governance, and record-keeping • Use dashboards and early-warning analytics to identify risks ahead of statutory deadlines • Develop standard work, templates, playbooks, and training for grievance handling, disciplinary procedures, and collective bargaining • Build external labour relations networks and train leaders in negotiation, engagement, and communications • Manage Access requests and trade union recognition campaigns and access arrangements • Conduct site-level labour relations assessments and build UK & Ireland HR capability in wage negotiation • Support workforce planning, restructuring analysis, redundancy costing, and people projects • Coordinate with European, UK, and Irish HR and Labour Relations contacts • Track standard work materials, change documentation, and statutory consultation notices • Coordinate meetings, vendors, translation/outplacement services, and invoicing • Maintain local labour relations documentation and collaborate with HR, Legal, Compliance, Communications, and business leaders • Monitor UK and Irish legislative changes and advise leadership on impacts and mitigation strategies

🎯 Requirements

• Significant professional experience in Labour Relations or Employee Relations, in a dedicated labour or industrial relations role, within complex, highly unionized manufacturing, engineering, or industrial environments in the UK & Ireland • Demonstrable, hands-on experience in managing industrial action disputes, trade union negotiations, CAC proceedings, and trade union recognition/derecognition • Deep expertise in UK and Irish employment law, collective bargaining, collective redundancy processes, and individual/collective dispute resolution • Strong analytical and data management skills, with the ability to track complex multi-stakeholder projects and present clear summaries to senior executives • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex, concurrent transformation projects and competing deadlines under high-pressure scenarios • Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence across all levels • Experience creating change management plans, governance models, project charters, and executive-level reporting • Pragmatic, pace-oriented approach: able to balance legal and labour relations risk with business speed and influence leaders without direct authority • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in human resources, Employment Law, Business Administration, or a related field (desired) • CIPD qualification (Level 7) or legal qualification is a strong plus • Strong business acumen • Problem-solving, mediation, and conflict-resolution capabilities • Ability to thrive in a highly matrixed, global manufacturing or industrial environment • Comfort working with data, dashboards, and digital tracking tools • Interest in, and ideally experience of, working within a European Works Council context and cross-border European labour relations processes

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Car allowance • Performance-related bonus • Flexible pension scheme • Employer-funded private health insurance • Income protection • Life assurance • Generous annual leave entitlement in line with UK/Irish statutory standards and company policy • Public and bank holidays • Optional dental cover • Wellness programmes • Additional insurance coverage • Financial planning services

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