Aerospace HR Director

4 weeks ago


Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom GKN Aerospace Full time

About the Role

The EWIS HR Director is a key position at GKN Aerospace, responsible for partnering with the Global EWIS Leadership Team to understand Operations goals and set appropriate strategies. This role is crucial in identifying opportunities to increase organisational effectiveness, leadership, and productivity.

The position oversees four EWIS sites: Papendrecht in the Netherlands, Izmir in Turkey, Pune in India, and Langfang in China. The four HR Managers will report directly to the EWIS HR Director.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive goal achievement by creating and implementing HR initiatives tailored to business needs through execution within the four EWIS sites.
  • Act as an influential advisor and a credible Human Resources Leader/Business Partner through identifying and driving change by owning end-to-end execution of all HR functional work.
  • Ensure global EWIS and local sites team attracts, develops, and retains high-quality talent at all levels in a continuous pipeline. Workforce Planning, both operational and strategic, is essential.
  • Partner with HR Center of Excellence (COE's) to provide proactive guidance and support of HR initiatives that align the human resources strategies in support of key business strategies and initiatives.
  • Leads cultural change through strategic HR programs in collaboration with business leaders with a strong emphasis on talent management and development.
  • Present relevant metrics and insights to the business to drive the focus and execution of Human Resources strategies.
  • Be both strategic and hands-on, providing Human Resources expertise in the areas of organisational development, coaching/development, change management, compensation, conflict management, employee relations, and more.

Requirements

  • Bachelors Degree in human resources, business, or related discipline required.
  • 10+ years of HR Generalist experience in all functional areas of human resources (i.e. Workforce Planning, compensation, benefits, labour law, etc.)
  • Including leadership experience as well as experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Periodic travel required to support international EWIS sites.

What We Offer

Besides an innovative and international work environment that offers a good work-life balance, we offer opportunities to learn and grow, a competitive salary, pension plan, 30 vacation days, and a company car.

About GKN Aerospace

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster, and greener. Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we're inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We're proud to play a part in protecting the world's democracies. And we're committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet.



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