(Junior) HR Business Partner

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HR Business Partner (f/m/d)

Date: 22 May 2026

Company: Alstom

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time HR Business Partner (f/m/d) in Vienna we’re looking for?

Your Future Role

From Vienna to the world: our Viennese site is a global competence center for trams and light rail vehicles. 700 colleagues develop and manufacture the Flexity™ tram for worldwide customers from Austria to Australia. Our product line Rolling Stock & Components offers products from the broadest portfolio in the rail industry. Our innovation focus is on green and smart solutions, including emission-free propulsion systems such as batteries and hydrogen. You’ll report to Valerie Zausch, HR Director PL RSC Light Rail CNE and work alongside a dedicated and enthusiastic team.

We’ll look for you to :

Act as a trusted HR partner to the business, maintaining close proximity to managers and employees, understanding their needs, advising leadership on HR policies and processes, and translating business priorities into effective HR actions aligned with Group and Regional cluster strategy.

Ensure strong workforce planning and recruitment delivery, anticipating manpower needs, securing project staffing and site HR support on time, building internal and external talent pipelines, personally assessing key candidates, influencing hiring decisions, and ensuring high‑quality onboarding and probation follow‑up.

Drive robust total rewards and people cost management, ensuring accurate job grading, and incentive payments, market alignment of C&B practices, follow‑up of incentive schemes, and full accountability for HR budget planning and execution.

Develop organizational capability and talent, reinforcing managers’ ownership of people management, deploying performance management and People Review processes, defining development and training plans, delivering key HR training programs, and supporting succession planning and retention of critical talent.

Ensure operational excellence, compliance, and performance measurement, guaranteeing data accuracy in HRIS, deploying HR tools and metrics, maintaining sound industrial relations, supervising local HR operations, ensuring policy compliance, and monitoring HR performance through defined KPIs and stakeholder feedback.

All About You

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

University degree in human resources, psychology, business studies, social sciences, economics, or a related discipline.

Solid experience in a generalist HR role, covering the full scope of HR management practices within a comparable industrial or project-oriented environment.

Ability to work in a very dynamic enviroment, influence and operate with strong resilience in a matrix organization, building strong relationships with managers and stakeholders across different functions and levels.

Acting as a strong driver to enforce HR processes by influencing the business constantly.

Strong expertise in employment law, employee relations, payroll matters, and organizational change, and are comfortable advising management on sensitive and complex people topics.

Fluency in both English and German.

Things You’ll Enjoy

The minimum salary for this position is € 53,228 EUR gross annually for full-time employment according to the collective bargaining agreement. Overpayment depends on relevant work experience and qualifications.

Join us on a life‑long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

Experience a dynamic work environment with a permanent position at a leading company for green mobility

Enjoy a competitive remuneration package, 25 days of vacation, and benefits such as company pension plans and discounted tickets for public transport

Optimise work-life balance with flexible working hours and hybrid working models as well as bridging days, parental part-time and “Papamonat”

Alstom site with company canteen and meal allowance as well as good transport connections and free parking facilities

Explore growth opportunities and steer your career across functions and countries

Benefit from excellent training opportunities through our a