HR Advisor

**KAEFER UK & Ireland**

**When it counts, count on us.**

**Location: Sellafield**

**Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time**

**The Opportunity**

As a HR Advisor you will provide generalist support to our business, getting involved with day-to-day HR activities to provide remote and onsite support and advice to line managers and employees.

Key accountabilities
- Manage the administration of the HR function in order to achieve the HR strategy
- Administer new starter documentation, including qualification and security checks
- Liaise with other teams to ensure onboarding is a seamless process and positive experience for the end user
- Track key employment milestones such as onboarding and probationary periods, working alongside managers to ensure the correct process is followed
- Ensure employee e-files are updated, maintained and accurate at all times
- Be the first point of contact for all HR queries for site management
- Liaise with trade union personnel regularly to proactively address potential issues and quickly resolve present issues
- Support site management team with IR/ER issues, including advice in formal meetings
- Advise and guide site management in formal proceedings, managing potential risk to the business and escalating to HR lead where appropriate
- Update absences records including sickness and annual leave on HRIS and e-files, monitoring absence triggers and advising on frontline absence/attendance management processes
- Ensure appropriate information is cascaded to relevant managers without compromising confidentiality and in line with GDPR
- Ensure the relevant HRIS is up to date, accurate and complies with current legislation
- Complete employee reference requests as and when requested
- Complete weekly and monthly data reports as per HR lead’s request
- Liaise with the Occupational Health department and providers where appropriate for pre-planned, routine and ad-hoc medical reviews
- Coordinate Occupational Health and wellbeing provisions on site
- Support the Social Impact Team, early careers and training department initiatives
- Keep regular communications across the site teams, sharing updates and necessary information via multiple channels of communication to suit a diverse workforce
- Support the wider HR team with Redundancy and TUPE exercises

**The Person**

**Experience**:

- Previous experience within an HR environment (essential)
- Previous experience of working within a unionised environment is (desirable)
- Knowledge of Working Rule Agreements (desirable)

**Skills**:

- Excellent influencing/negotiation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to influence and advise
- Ability to deal with a high-volume workload and prioritise
- Extensive knowledge of employment legislation

**Qualifications**:

- CIPD Member - or ability to demonstrate equivalent level of generalist HR experience

**Why KAEFER?**

Our mission is clear: to be the most reliable and efficient provider of technical industrial services.

KAEFER UK & Ireland provides a large and growing range of industries with asset integrity services including access solutions, insulation, inspection & testing, protective coatings, asbestos management and more. We focus on improving energy efficiency and extending asset life cycles. The company has thirteen operating centres across the UK and Ireland, employing approximately 3,000 highly skilled and experienced people. Our people are our lifeforce and every day they deliver excellence to our customers.

KAEFER UK & Ireland is part of the KAEFER group, a global €2 billion business with its headquarters in Bremen, Germany. KAEFER works on more than 5,500 job-sites internationally, with around 30,000 employees. With unrivalled experience and expertise, our teams provide trusted partnerships and tailored support to execute even the most challenging and complex projects for clients.

We take pride in being part of a global company with common values and many diverse and individual voices. We make positive contributions in the communities where we live and work, after all when it counts, count on us

Our values:

- Colleagueship
- Modesty
- Trust
- Reliability
- Respect
- Professionalism
- Result Orientation

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person