Joseph Ash Galvanizing is looking to recruit an experienced HR Advisor to provide expert employee relations advice to 9 sites plus Head Office. A great opportunity for someone who is proactive, confident and wants to make a difference.

Your day to day:

• Partnering with the business to deliver high quality and pro-active case management advice and guidance on ER issues such as; capability, disciplinary, grievance, absence management, the Equality Act, appeals and flexible working whilst ensuring consistency of decisions across the business.
• Providing the business with pragmatic and commercial based solutions whilst considering both the employment legal and risk framework.
• Providing coaching to managers to up skill and support them to reach positive outcomes with their colleagues.
• Training, coaching and developing line managers and working with the People Partner to develop, deliver and review training material and processes to up-skill line manager capability.
• Maintaining an effective feedback loop with the People Partner to drive change.
• Escalate and advise high risk cases to the People Partner and as and when appropriate.
• Develop relationships across the business to obtain support when formal meeting support is required on case work.
• Managing all cases in line with GDPR regulations.
• Contributing to team development through the sharing of best practice and lessons learnt.
• Support the progress of ET’s, COT3’s and settlement agreements liaising with Make UK and ACAS as necessary.
• Support the teams with generalist ad hoc projects across the business.
• Compile reports, review data and make recommendations to the business on current trends.
• Develop, review and update People policies and procedures.

The ideal candidate:

• Minimum of 2 years employee relations experience.
• Strong knowledge of current Employment Law.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills and ability to hold challenging conversations in a way which leads to the desired outcomes.
• Highly organised and self-motivated with good attention to detail.
• Customer focused and service oriented.
• Experience of managing and prioritising own workload in a high volume, demanding environment with changing priorities.
• Driven to succeed with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Able to deal with highly confidential information discreetly.
• Work both with pace and accuracy, remaining focused on the detail.
• Able to work in a sensitive and diplomatic manner, whilst remaining confident and resilient.
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships, both face to face and over the telephone.
• Excellent coaching skills and effective questioning techniques.
• Full or part CIPD recognised qualification is essential.
• In possession of a current driving licence.
• Experience of HR system implementation would be an advantage
• Experience of working within a manufacturing environment with some union exposure is desirable.

What we offer:

• Salary £35k - £38k D.O.E
• 9% Annual Bonus
• 33 Days’ Holiday including Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working – 3 days Head Office
• Lifeworks Perks Package
• ShareSave Scheme

Please refer the Job description for details