Act as a strategic partner with the Site Leader, and senior leadership team, whilst also being able to operate transactionally, enabling the business to define and deliver its growth and financial plans.
Work alongside the business in order to provide first class HR support with regards to the full employee lifecycle, including resourcing and talent planning, learning and talent development, performance and reward, employee engagement, employee relations, organisation design and development, and service delivery.
Main Responsibilities
- Provide the strategic link between HR and management, through the provision of high-quality support, advice and guidance.
- Drive a culture of high performance, continuously reviewing processes and procedures where necessary.
- Partner with leaders and managers in the recruitment process, defining short, mid and long term resource plans and developing internal talent.
- Be an active and influential player, enabling the effective diagnosis of people issues and developing effective people management solutions including complex casework and sickness absence management.
- Provide employee relations advice to managers with practical support and overseeing end to end ER casework.
- Support the development and implementation of the rewards strategy, ensuring employee compensation and benefits are aligned with current and future business need.
- Support business transformation through effective change management and engaging internal communication.
- Challenge, provoke and coach managers to engage employees and build effective people capabilities.
- Developing and maintaining good relations (informal and formal) with the recognised trade union and leading on negotiations where necessary
- Drive performance management through the effective use of the Company goal setting and performance management process, ensuring corrective strategies are defined and implemented.
- Support the identification and fulfilment of development and training needs so that the Company has the desired capability and competencies for future growth.
- Provide input and guidance on organisation structure and job design to help ensure the organisation is efficient and can adapt to changing business needs.
- Deliver HR and Business projects, as and when required by the HR Director and senior management.
Person Specification
- CIPD qualified
- Experience of working in a generalist role in a manufacturing environment, with a broad and strong knowledge of employment law and how it can be effectively applied.
- Experience of working with trade unions.
- Senior stakeholder management experience – communicates, challenges and influences a variety of stakeholders across the organisation effectively.
- IT literate, with strong skills in Microsoft Office and computerised HRIS; Comfortable analysing and presenting HR data to stakeholders.
- Is client-focused and commercially astute with the ability to learn and understand the business unit, the context and markets in which they operate and their P&L. Able to converse, challenge and add value on business matters.
- An ambitious, energetic and dedicated individual, with a passion for driving positive people-related changes.
- High level of integrity and confidentiality.
- Willing to travel within the UK.
About Us
BRUSH Switchgear provide agile and adaptive engineering solutions and products, including consultancy services, design, and project management as well as award-winning product technology, to a wide range of projects.
A chosen partner for national and regional power generation and distribution network operators, through innovation and a commitment to delivering solutions that address grid-resilience and drive system change, we support the global drive to net-zero, helping create a future-proof Infrastructure.