Senior HR Operations Specialist - EMEA

Overview

Geosyntec is an internationally recognised company for its technical leadership, extensive experience, and exceptional level of customer service. Our ambition is to help our clients succeed by providing solutions that add value to their environmental, natural resource and infrastructure businesses. We have more than 3,000 highly qualified consultants in more than 130 locations around the world.

We now have nearly 700 scientists, engineers and corporate staff across our Europe, Middle East and Australia (EMEA) operations, and we're looking for an experienced Senior HR Operations Specialist to join our growing team. Reporting to and supporting the HR Director and regional leadership team, this role combines HR operations, systems, and administration with the delivery of a high-quality employee experience.

The successful candidate will bring strong organisational skills, sound HR knowledge, and a proactive, customer-focused approach to building effective relationships across the business.

As our Senior HR Operations Specialist, you will play a vital role in supporting HR operations as well as local and EMEA leadership, ensuring that operations run smoothly, providing day-to-day local HR guidance, and assisting in the administration of HR related areas - this includes employee records management, onboarding, employee relations, benefits administration and compliance with local labour laws. The role assesses and anticipates HR-related needs and formulates partnerships across the HR function to deliver value-added service to management and employees that reflects the business objectives of the organisation.

The role is varied, fast-paced and hands on, where you will be the HR Director's "right hand" in all EMEA HR operational and administrative matters. You will work in collaboration with the North American and international HR team, and report to the Director of International HR operations. The position requires strong organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels.

The successful candidate will ideally be based near our offices in Manchester or Delph
, with hybrid working options.

• Full scope administrative support across the HR function; onboarding, employee records management, employee relations, benefits administration and compliance, primarily with local labour laws in the UK and Ireland.
• Providing knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance UK & Irish labour law requirements;
• Providing accurate and timely advice and support to managers and employees
• Stay up-to-date on new laws and regulations that are coming (no need to have any in-depth knowledge) within the EU, UK & Ireland.
• Working closely with leadership and employees to optimise employee engagement and retention.
• Providing support to employees on various HR-related topics
• Providing collaborative HR policy guidance for compensation, and other areas of the global HR function;
• Collaborating with the hiring manager and the Talent Acquisition team (TA) in all recruitment processes (e.g., compensation benchmark, offer letters, job descriptions, job advertisements etc.);
• Supporting the TA and hiring manager during the interview process to ensure new hires align with company’s culture and recruitment needs;
• Conducting professional employee onboarding and off boarding processes
• Together with management, identifying training needs for teams and individuals, and working closely with the L&D team to customise employee training;
• Supporting HSE representatives to promote programs to create an efficient, healthy, and safe work environment; and
• Partnering with Payroll to ensure salary and benefits are administered timely, and utilising HR systems and tools to manage, record and report work activities as well as prepare employee data or reports when required.
• Partnering with HR functional leads and payroll to administer compensation, or other HR issues related to compensation and benefits.

• Associates degree in Human Resources, Business…