HR Manager

**Position**:HR Manager
- **Salary**:£35,000 - £45,000 per annum
- **Location**: Royston, Herts
- **Contract**: Permanent, Full-Time
- (Mon-Fri, 37.5 hours per week)

**HR Manager**:

- Are you an experienced HR Manager looking for your next challenge?
- Maybe you’re currently working as a HR Advisor or similar and looking for your next step within a HR career?
- Would you enjoy a hands on, standalone HR position to assist our client with the management of the overall HR operations and strategic objectives?
- Do you also enjoy the recruitment side of HR and would feel passionate about owning and managing the recruitment process?
- Maybe you have previous experience of dealing with Payroll? Although this is not essential.
- Does working for a friendly, highly established and growing manufacturing company appeal to you?

**_If you answer 'YES’ to some of the above, then please get in touch with the smart10 team today _**

**Job Purpose**

The HR manager provides a comprehensive HR service which ensures that managers and employees are equipped with best practice to foster a high-performance culture. This is a hands on, standalone role and the HR Manager will be required to assist with themanagement of the overall HR operations and the delivery of strategic objectives.

**Primary duties and r esponsibilities**
- Own and manage the recruitment process in its entirety (review/compose job descriptions, job adverts, arrange and conduct 'phone interviews, review/compose interview questions and job tasks, arrange and conduct interviews with managers, offer job, generateall new starter documentation)
- Act as Company Data Protection officer, ensuring compliance with all UK GDPR regulations and ISO
- Responsible for employee wellbeing - mental health first aider & responsibility for coaching managers & supervisors.
- Manage one direct report, Receptionist/administrator, and cover annual leave
- Measuring employee satisfaction and identifying areas which require improvement, via the Staff survey (issued twice a year)
- End to end HR & payroll administration
- Payroll responsibilities include managing the time and attendance system, ensuring it is updated and that employee attendance is monitored daily
- Ensure all Company policies and procedures are up to date and in line with current employment law, ensure managers are up to date with any change in policy
- Manage complex employee relations including dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, retirement, and redundancy
- Advise employee’s & managers on company policy, terms and conditions of employment and knowledge, share best practice with them
- Develop HR policy and procedures to drive performance and mitigate disputes
- Conduct new starter HR inductions
- Support change management processes
- Manage employee communication
- Manage salary structure, grading system and pay reviews
- Implement and manage staff appraisal system
- Monitor & log training records alongside the QHS Manager, including booking staff on courses
- Conduct or organise internal HR based training, such as absence management, conducting investigations, and other ad hoc sessions.

**Skills & experience required**
- Proven HR generalist experience gained in a manufacturing environment or similar
- CIPD qualified or equivalent experience
- Familiar with UK employment law and GDPR requirements
- Ideally mental health first aid trained, or willing to become trained
- Exceptional organisational and communication skills at all levels with numerous stakeholders
- Confident in using excel, particularly as an employee database.
- Able to maintain confidentiality and act with discretion and diplomacy
- Self-motivated and able to work under own autonomy and part of the management team
- Experience of with Payroll advantageous
- Flexible hours available.

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