People Services Advisor

Role:
People Services Advisor

Location:

Hybrid, based from our offices in Warrington

Rolls‑Royce SMR is here to transform how nuclear energy is delivered—cleaner, faster and at global scale. Our teams are developing one of the world’s most advanced small modular reactors, helping secure affordable, low‑carbon energy for generations to come. We’re doing something that’s never been done before. We’re revolutionising an industry. That’s a once-in-a-career opportunity for those excited by such a challenge.

This is more than just a job; this is a legacy. The People Services Advisor is responsible for delivering expertise and guidance across the employee lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of efficient, compliant, and employee-focused HR, payroll, benefits, and HR systems processes. The role acts as a key advisor to managers and employees, driving continuous improvement, process standardisation, and operational excellence.

Ensuring all activities are completed in accordance with company policies, employment legislation, service level agreements, and data protection requirements. Success in the role will be demonstrated through the effective delivery of People Services support and advice, ensuring employees and managers receive accurate, timely and customer-focused guidance across the employee lifecycle. Maintaining high-quality people data, resolving queries efficiently with professionalism and empathy, and contributing to a positive employee experience while ensuring compliance with employment policies, regulatory requirements and governance standards.

The role will also play an active part in identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, enhancing service delivery, and supporting the evolution of People Services processes and practices.

Experience in managing end-to-end employee lifecycle processes and offboarding activities. Ability to prepare accurate HR documentation and maintain employee records within HR systems to a high standard of accuracy and confidentiality.

Experience administering payroll‑related activities and employee benefit programmes, such as pensions, insurances, flexible benefits, and salary sacrifice schemes. Proven ability to reconcile data, carry out validation checks and resolve data discrepancies. Experience of working effectively with third‑party providers to resolve issues.

Strong customer service and communication skills with the ability to act as first point of contact providing expert guidance and advice to managers, employees, and stakeholders on People Services processes. Respond accurately and timely to queries and delivering a professional and positive employee experience. Build effective relationships with People Leaders, HR colleagues, Finance, Payroll, external providers, and other business stakeholders to support operational and strategic objectives Experience using HR systems and Microsoft Office applications.

This role can be based in Warrington, with flexibility to work between home and the office depending on business needs.

A salary between £42,000 - £55,150 , £2,200 benefit allowance, 12.5% bonus opportunity, 6x pensionable life assurance, 50% income protection, 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, and a £250 new‑joiner payment—alongside opportunities for development and progression.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a competency‑based interview and may be asked to provide evidence of document management capability. This role requires BPSS checks as part of our onboarding process.

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