Labour Compliance Manager (Nordics)

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

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.

Youll 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 thirdparty 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 problemsolving 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 everyones contribution matters. Its 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.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll 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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