Job Description
HR Manager
Company Overview: We are the market leading design, installation, and maintenance provider for commercial kitchens in the UK hospitality and food service industry. We work alongside clients from the initial designs through to bespoke fabrication and installation. Coupled with the largest body of professional maintenance engineers in the country, we offer the complete end to end solution to our extensive client base. We have long-standing relationships with many of the biggest multi-site brands in the UK.
Job Summary: We have a fantastic new role within our growing HR department, reporting to the Group Head of HR & Development, playing a key part in people direction and development of the business. This role will be instrumental in supporting the continued growth of Airedale, overseeing HR processes and procedures across the group.
Benefits: Competitive Salary, Company Car and excellent career progression
Location: Brackley / Hybrid
Key Responsibilities:
- Promote and drive best practice in people and culture management.
- Provide advice and guidance to all levels of management on employee related issues, ensuring fair and ethical management.
- Consulting on issues related to workplace relations and performance management.
- Manage new starter paperwork including employment contracts, induction packs, reference requests, and company handbooks.
- Support managers throughout disciplinary processes where necessary.
- Process leavers including the submission of the resignation acceptance letters and calculating leavers’ final Pay in Lieu of annual leave due.
- Maintain absence records and return to works.
- Update records associated with employment changes and variations to contracts.
- Assist with projects, such as a new HR system roll out and introduction of employee benefits scheme ensuring these align with group HR.
- Providing advice and assistance on policies, procedure and legislation.
- Co-Ordinate compliance for legal processes, such as a disciplinary or grievance.
- Take minutes for informal and formal process meetings/hearings.
- Support in HR administration, when required.
- Assist with updating payroll with new starter, leaver and variation data.
Key Requirements:
- Experience of working within a standalone HR role.
- CIPD Level 5.
- Previous experience working for a growing SME, ideally within Engineering, Manufacturing or Construction sectors.
- A confident communicator with excellent influential skills.
- Ability to drive best practice and define processes and procedures.
- Excellent organisational skills and able to prioritise within a busy working environment.
This is a fantastic time to be joining The Airedale Group and be part of our growth journey, with an exciting future ahead. The Group employs circa 700 people across multiple locations in the UK and offers significant scope for career progression.