Human Resources Assistant

Salary: £36,000 – £38,400 per year

OATS Recruitment are hiring an experienced HR Advisor on behalf of a highly established manufacturing company who wok alongside multiple longstanding successful businesses internationally.

The role:

To support the HR Manager in the delivery of an efficient and effective HR support and advisor service to departments by providing first line contact on all people related issues consistent with internal processes and legal requirements.

Must possess Experience in a similar HR role, with excellent operational HR knowledge, preferably in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Essential Experience:

– Worked in an advisory role for a minimum of 2 years.

– Worked in HR for a minimum of 4 years.

– CIPD qualified.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing on site ER matters including absence management, disciplinary and grievance in a timely manner.
• Coaching and advising Managers on employee relation cases and general management issues.
• Proactively manage sickness absence, including return to work meetings, sickness review meetings and support managers with all long-term sickness cases and where necessary bring them to a satisfactory conclusion in a timely manner.
• Engage Occupational Health support as required.
• Developing and promoting employee engagement and wellbeing activities
• Scanning and recording training records.
• Monitoring, reviewing and updating all HR policies and ensuring these are in line with current legislation.
• Training Managers on policies and procedures.
• Provide cover for the Health & Safety Manager on inductions.
• Write, review and continually updating job descriptions.
• Look for opportunities to improve our HR processes, practices & people solutions.
• Dealing with ad hoc employee queries.
• Supporting the HR manager and the needs of the HR function.
• Maintain up to date employment law knowledge in line with UK legislation.

Required skills:

• Employee relations and change management.
• Ability to build trusted relationships through a professional but personable approach.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong oral and written communication skills.
• Resilience and the ability to deal with conflict.
• Creative and innovative approach to problems and solutions.
• Experience of implementing and driving value adding HR initiatives.
• Computer literate, confident and proficient in word, excel and PowerPoint.
• Able to complete tasks in a timely, accurate manner.
• Multitasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks.
• Excellent organisational skills.

Working Hours:

34.5 Hrs PW.

Monday- Thursday- 9am- 5pm.

Friday- 9am- 4.30.

An optional hour or half hour lunch break, to be discussed prior to start date.

Salary:

30-32K DOE

Benefits:

• 25 Days Holidays – run from January 1st – December 31st. A few days of this, usually no more than 5 days is attained to use for our Christmas shutdown.
• Bank Holidays.
• A possibility of voluntary overtime when required.
• Pension scheme.
• Sickness scheme.
• Life insurance.