Employee Relations Advisor - 18m FTC

Employee Relations Advisor - 18m FTC - Peterborough - up to £43000 depending on experience

JOB TITLE: Employee Relations Advisor
JOB TYPE: Fixed-term contract to cover a colleague's secondment
JOB DURATION: 18 months
JOB LOCATION: Peterborough
JOB SALARY: Up to £43000 depending on experience
JOB NOTES: This role is 100% office-based, no work from home

Your new company
Our client is a world-leading manufacturing business with a strong engineering heritage and a focus on innovation. This division supports customers across the construction, agriculture, utilities and marine sectors. They operate across multiple international sites and are proud of their sustainability, reliability and high-performance reputation. Employees love their supportive work culture, fair compensation and the chance to work on diverse projects and thus, gain valuable experience. To prove the point, this FTC is being recruited because one of the team has accepted an internal secondment and that's why Hays has been asked to help recruit this job.

Your new role
This job will see you taking the lead on a portfolio of ER/IR cases including, but certainly not limited to, disciplinaries, performance management and grievances. In these roles, there's always an element of reporting and advising your management and colleagues of any trends that you spot and this could lead to you developing new processes and policies. You'll be hands-on in advising, training, and coaching your line managers on how they deal with the performance, absence, etc. of their teams.
Your job will be 100% based on site in Peterborough.

What you'll need to succeed
Our client has asked for an experienced HR professional, ideally coming from the manufacturing or industrial sector. A professional qualification would be nice, but it's not essential, but what is important is a strong track record in employee/industrial relations, so if that isn't detailed on your CV, can I suggest that you include your experience in a cover letter or add in an "additional information" section on your CV?

What you'll get in return

• Salary - between £34500 and £43000 depending on experience
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
• Up to 10% performance bonus per annum
• Pension scheme - our client will double your contribution by up to 10%
• Share save scheme where the company will add an extra 50% to your contribution
• Flexible benefits plan giving you access to health & dental care plans, holiday purchase options, EV car lease
• Flexible working hours are open for discussion.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV with plenty of details outlining your ER/IR experience, or you could include that on a cover letter. #