Job Type: Full-Time, fully Office-based.
Working Hours: 38.5 PW (Monday to Thursdays 7.30am – 4.30pm with 30-minute unpaid lunch, Friday (phone number removed)pm no lunch)
Role Purpose
- To provide and manage a compliant, effective and efficient overall HR function across our business including multiple sites. Your management style will be very much hands on, being sensitive to the business and our employees, allowing the company and its managers to continue to build and maintain positive employee relationships and vice versa. You will assist with the setting of the culture and ethos of the company and ensure a harmonious workforce where all employees are treated with the same concern and respect and employee health and wellbeing are equally considered. You will contribute to the development and effectiveness of the company’s management systems (Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety, sustainability and Business Continuity planning.
Role Duties
- Assist the management team in the attainment of the overall strategic business plan and objectives.
- Provide professional HR advice and administrative support •
- Ensure HR policies and procedures are compliant with current UK regulations and laws, advise of forthcoming changes in good time.
- Advise on and assist in the management of employee relations to include dispute resolutions, discipline and grievance, absence, retirement and redundancy.
- Assist with recruitment.
- Identify and recommend improvements to internal operating procedures HR Policy Formulation and legislative compliance.
- Ensure all HR associated policies are legally compliant, applicable to and correspond with the mission, values, objectives, needs and culture of the business.
- Continuously monitor and review policies and processes, to ensure policies are and remain applicable to the business.
- Salary reviews and Employee recognition.
- Advise of disciplinary and grievance procedures ensuring compliance with company policy. Where necessary chair meetings.
- Training. Assist and advise departmental managers and directors with training programmes for employees.
- Assist with workforce planning.
- Assist with organisational change.
- Ensure apprentices and trainees are suitably managed through planned stages with expected targets for attainment.
- Ensure job descriptions are regularly reviewed to address evolving and changing job roles.
- Ensure all round support and compassionate management for employees returning to work from long term absence.
Candidate Specification
- Must be CIPD level 7 qualified or equivalent.
- Chartered Member of the CIPD.
- Pro-active management style.
- Exceptional communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills and connects easily with people.
- Proven HR Generalist with a minimum of 3 years experience in a self managing role, preferably within a manufacturing or distribution environment.
- Excellent knowledge of employment legislation and implementation
- Proven ability in policy formulation
- Experience in developing and supporting managers in areas such as change, discipline & grievance recruitment, employee performance and review, employee support & compassionate management.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Understands and can apply strategic focus.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and act with discretion and diplomacy is crucial.
- Self-motivated and able to work under own autonomy or as part of a team