HR Operations Coordinator

Overview

Due to internal promotion in our HR Operations team, Element has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced HR Operations Coordinator to join our EMEAA HR Shared Services team, based in Edinburgh Park. The successful candidate will join a customer centric team that provides HR transactional support to Element’s UK and Ireland business operations and will work collaboratively with our HR Business Partner teams.

This is a fantastic time to join our team and grow your HR career, as we develop regional operational plans to build out HR Shared Services model to central Europe. EMEAA HR Shared Services model centralises employee lifecycle transactional processing, leveraged through implementation, adoption and embedding of new and emerging technologies and workflow transformation, to deliver a dynamic and qualitative HR service provision.

Our new colleague will join us based 3 days per week from our beautiful new office in Edinburgh Park where we are enjoying state-of-the-art facilities including collaboration spaces, huddle rooms, open-concept layout, and abundant natural light. With fantastic links by train, tram, commuter routes, as well as having designated parking, we are well connected for colleagues across the central belt of Scotland.

• Maintain core HR System (Dynamics 365) to ensure the timely and accurate processing of employee data including joiners, changes to role, leavers, changes to personal information, holidays and absences
• Respond to and action all HR transactional queries within agreed SLA timelines, escalating to relevant HR colleagues and line managers where appropriate
• Prepare employment contracts, offer letters, variation letters and other employee lifecycle documentation
• Manage new starters and onboarding, including Right to Work documentation, collating new starter paperwork, and references
• Administer long service and recognition schemes, ensuring effective stock of materials
• Process both variable and fixed compensation change requests
• Support wider EMEAA HR Shared Services function with key project deliverables impacting HR Shared Services function

• Experience working in HR Administration (essential), including accurate processing of employee data and employee lifecycle transactional activities
• Knowledge of Human Resources and Employment Law (CIPD membership desirable)
• Comfortable in a growth culture with resilience and curiosity to adapt and grow
• Exemplary customer service skills – essential
• Flexibility and adaptability in a changing work environment
• Proficient in MS Office (Word/Excel/Outlook) and its’ use for reporting purposes
• Must have strong communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload and have thorough attention to detail
• Desire to learn and drive continuous improvement
• Ability to exercise and maintain a high degree of confidentiality and professionalism
• Ability to multi task and prioritise/handle competing priorities in a fast paced, dynamically changing environment

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

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