Interim HR Officer

We are seeking an enthusiastic and driven HR Officer to join the our client on a 12 month fixed term contract. This is an excellent opportunity for a developing HR professional to gain broad exposure across HR operations, employee relations, and people initiatives within a dynamic, fast-paced environment across multiple sites.

What you’ll be Doing

• Provide comprehensive HR administrative support, including resourcing, onboarding and induction, probation management, offboarding, retirement processes, HR KPI tracking, payroll query resolution, and processing employee status changes.
• Support managers on employee relations matters, including investigations, disciplinary and grievance meetings, taking minutes, and drafting reports and outcome letters.
• Provide guidance to managers and employees on HR policies, ensuring consistent and fair application.
• Support managers with performance management, absence management, wellbeing conversations, and engagement, focusing on proactive and supportive interventions.
• Support and assist managers in employee relations matters including investigations, disciplinary meetings and hearings. This will involve activities such as attending meetings, taking minutes and drafting letters.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for managers, offering advice, support, and early intervention where needed.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders across the business.
• Ensure accurate and compliant record-keeping of employee data.
• Lead engagement and wellbeing agenda across multi sites, producing a monthly newsletter, coordinate monthly wellbeing initiatives, and ensure consistent, inclusive activities across all locations.

• Drive participation in engagement activities, competitions, and organise and support key annual events and fundraisers to strengthen team culture and involvement.

• Supporting wellbeing and people initiatives, contributing to HR projects focused on engagement, culture, and overall employee experience.

• Responsible for HR administration, including supporting resourcing, induction process, probation, off boarding, retirement, HR KPIs, resolving payroll queries, and processing status changes to the HR Operation team.
• Provide HR officer support for HR wide initiatives including any projects.

What we’re looking for

• Third level qualification or equivalent or CIPD qualified or working towards.
• Minimum 1 years’ experience working in an HR role.
• Strong attention to detail, excellent organisation skills with the ability to work on your own initiative and manage competing priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and management skills with the ability to interact and influence effectively at all levels across the business.
• Strong coaching skills with the ability to build strong relationships and build trust with a variety of stakeholders at all levels.
• Full Driving license and access to a car, there is a requirement to travel to various sites.
• Must be flexible in working hours as the role will require attendance on site from time to time for meetings on night shifts etc.

Desirable:

• Experience working in an HR role with exposure to employee relations.
• Working knowledge of employment legislation with the ability to confidently and competently advise.

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Skills:HR Officer HR Generalist

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