Human Resources Advisor

Salary £30,000 - £38,000 depending on experience

Location Miskin, south Wales with regular travel to HQ based in Gloucestershire

Hybrid working 3 days / week onsite (flexibility required to travel to other sites and be flexible on days)

We are looking to recruit a proactive HR Advisor to join our busy Human Resources team. This role sits within the Employee Relations team and reports to a Senior HR Business Partner.

The successful person will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, organised, focused and flexible. While working within a busy environment, this opportunity will provide support and training to the applicant to grow, develop and expand their experience, knowledge and skillset. There will also be opportunities to support other business areas to those you are assigned, as part of the wider Employee Relations team.

This is an exciting time to join the team as it is currently undergoing modernisation and there is a huge appetite for change, and therefore an opportunity to add value. The development of leadership and management capability of managers within the business is one of the key objectives that the team is currently supporting.

Responsibilities

• A strong generalist with in-depth employment law knowledge, who is comfortable running and advising on their own caseload (with support where required from a HR Business Partner), ideally with previous experience of working in an engineering, manufacturing or industrial organisation but certainly private sector.
• Develop strong business relationships with stakeholders and support, coach, influence and challenge managers in managing their teams, in line with best practice.
• To effectively handle a variety of HR related queries across the business (at all levels) and provide commercial, pragmatic and specialist HR advice in conjunction with current legislation and HR policy, practices & procedures.
• Management of a range of employee relations cases, e.g. wellbeing, absence management, contract queries, disciplinaries, grievances, capability, redundancy/restructuring, family friendly policies etc.
• Support development for managers on how to facilitate team reviews, setting objectives and measuring results, and how to have regular conversations.
• Support training sessions to upskill managers.
• Support the embedding of our company values: Innovation, integrity, involvement, Inspiration and assess the impact.
• Contribute to ad hoc projects when required and support the role out of company people initiatives.
• Support with precedent creation and maintenance of HR documents.
• Contribute to policy reviews and make recommendations for improvement (supporting employee engagement initiatives).
• Ability to create, interpret and monitor a variety of HR metrics which assist the business through Workday.
• Provide information and recommendations to the HR management team, when required, with a view to developing/implementing new services, policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Degree calibre and CIPD Qualified or working towards.
• True HR generalist with experience of providing operational HR support.
• Confident in providing commercial and pragmatic HR advice to client groups who enjoy logic, process and detail.
• Ability to build rapport and strong stakeholder relationships with all levels of employees across the business to become a trusted advisor.
• Hands-on with strong operational experience who takes a pragmatic and commercially balanced approach to their work with excellent customer facing skills.
• Keeps up to date with employment legislation and HR best practice.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Positive, proactive and collaborative team player who is also comfortable working autonomously.
• Proficient IT skills including MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Experience working in a dynamic environment.
• Driving licence, as travel between UK sites will be required.

Join our team and be part of a company that values innovation, collaboration, and the growth of its employees. If you are a strategic HR professional with a passion for driving organisational success, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. (*not available at our Castle Donington, Exeter & York sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.