Job Description:

HR BUSINESS PARTNER / HR MANAGER

Prominent and well-established site in the Newcastle-under-Lyme area| Manufacturing | Full time | Office Working

Are you excited and able to shape the future of a growing, successful family-owned business! If so, this role is for you.

Are you an experienced HR professional who enjoys combining strategic influence with hands-on operational delivery?

We are recruiting an HR Business Partner / HR Manager for a profitable, family-owned company employing approximately 250 people in the Newcastle-under-Lyme area. With more than 25 years of successful trading the company has a strong culture, an established management team and a full order book for the foreseeable future. This is an exciting opportunity to join a stable and established business as it enters its next phase of growth.

Working closely with the Directors and Operational Managers, you will be an integral trusted partner across the organisation. You will play a key role in strengthening management capability, supporting succession planning arising from future retirements, developing the talent pipeline and ensure the full employee lifecycle is managed effectively alongside the relevant internal stakeholders.

 This role will suit a commercially minded HR professional who builds credibility quickly, offers pragmatic solutions and is equally comfortable contributing to business strategy and rolling up their sleeves to resolve an operational issue.

The opportunity

• Partner with the Directors and Operational Managers to translate business priorities into practical people plans.
• Coach and challenge managers to build their confidence, capability and accountability for people management.
• Support succession planning, organisational development and the transfer of knowledge as the business prepares for its next phase of growth.
• Partner with the recruitment team to build the workforce and talent pipeline needed for future growth.
• Take ownership and lead talent management, learning and development, annual appraisals, pay review activity and reward administration.
• Lead the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment support, onboarding, employee relations, absence, performance, reward and offboarding.
• Use people data and commercial insight to identify trends, manage risk and recommend improvements.
• Design and deliver management training, toolbox talks and practical HR guidance.
• Review policies and introduce proportionate, workable processes that support legislation and business needs.
• Support and oversee payroll-related HR activities, ensuring accurate processing of employee changes, pensions, benefits and statutory payments whilst working closely with relevant internal stakeholders.

Whilst this role has the opportunity to develop a strategic focus, it is a hands-on position. The successful candidate will be comfortable balancing business partnering and organisational development activities with operational HR responsibilities including employee relations, absence management and oversight of payroll-related processes.

What you will bring

• CIPD Level 7 qualification.
• Significant generalist HR experience gained within manufacturing, construction, engineering or a similar operational environment.
• A strong working knowledge of UK employment law and the confidence to apply it pragmatically. External consultancy support is available for complex legal matters.
• Credibility with senior leaders and operational managers, with the ability to influence constructively and build trusted relationships.
• A commercial outlook and an understanding of how effective people practices contribute to productivity, quality, cost and sustainable growth.
• Experience of employee relations, absence and performance management, talent management, succession planning and management development.
• A proactive, solutions-orientated approach, resilience and a genuine can-do, roll-your-sleeves attitude.
• Strong organisation, communication, coaching and problem-solving skills.

Why apply?

• A key and visible role with genuine access to the Directors and influence over the future people agenda.
• A profitable, established and successful family-owned company with a full order book for the foresable future.
• A positive culture and an experienced, established management team who have a strong desire to succeed and happy to receive new perspectives.
• The opportunity to shape the HR function and create practical improvements that make a measurable difference.
• A varied role combining strategic business partnering with meaningful operational responsibility that truly supports the future of the Company.

Role details

Location

Newcastle-under-Lyme area

Working pattern

Full time – 40 hours per week with regular on-site presence across factory operations at Newcastle under Lyme.

Salary

Competitive salary dependent on experience with a discretionary annual bonus

Benefits

Enhanced holidays through length of service, PMI healthcare, Company pension increasing with service, Death in Service and Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Specsavers Vouchers, On site parking

Reports to

Operations Director

How to apply
Please submit your CV and a short covering note outlining your relevant manufacturing or construction experience and your current benefits package. Applications will be managed by applying via this website.  For a confidential discussion about the role please contact our recruiting partner, Rochelle on (phone number removed).

Thank you for your interest in joining our team. We are handling this recruitment campaign directly and are not engaging recruitment agencies at this time. We respectfully ask that agencies do not contact us regarding this role or submit unsolicited candidate profiles.

Thorp Precast are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. We are committed to the selection, recruitment, and development of the people, basing judgments solely on suitability for the job.