Human Resource Manager

Job Type: Full-time, office-based

We are seeking an HR Manager to join an engineering organisation. This standalone HR role offers the opportunity to work within a medium-size business that designs and manufactures high-value component parts. The ideal candidate will be experienced in managing day-to-day HR activities and recruitment, comfortable working autonomously, and thrive in a structured, traditional environment.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Provide day-to-day HR support and advice to a highly skilled workforce of technical employees.
• Manage recruitment and candidate management, with a focus on workforce planning.
• Support various HR projects from start to finish, maintaining and enhancing existing HR processes and procedures.
• Assist in supporting employee career paths, learning journeys, and performance management.
• Handle absence management and advise senior leadership on HR matters.
• Support changing workforce requirements as business projects start and finish, including understanding employee movement between projects/teams and redundancy implications where required.
• Support apprenticeship and graduate/talent programmes.

Required Skills &

Qualifications:

• Strong generalist HR capability with the ability to manage day-to-day HR activities independently.
• Significant recruitment and workforce planning experience, with a proven track record in a similar role.
• Credibility and strong communication skills, able to interact effectively with all levels of the organisation.
• Comfortable in a standalone role and confident dealing directly with senior leadership.
• Solid knowledge of employment processes and procedures, commercially aware and pragmatic.

Benefits:

• 10% non-contributory pension.
• 35 days' holiday inclusive of bank holidays.
• Private healthcare.
• Death in service benefit.
• Income protection paying 75% of salary for long-term sickness.
• EV salary sacrifice scheme.
• Cycle to Work scheme.