Employee Relations Investigator

KLA; Newport; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Pension scheme

Health plan

Cycle to work

Global bonus

Share scheme

Rewards program

Life assurance

Job summary

KLA in Newport, UK seeks an Employee Relations Investigator to lead internal investigations, ensuring fair treatment and legal compliance across UK and EU regions. You will handle interviews, document reviews, and reporting, coordinating with external firms while upholding KLA's culture and values.

This role requires travel, cross‑regional collaboration, and a commitment to integrity in every investigation. You will train others on the process and contribute to global ER initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience conducting internal workplace investigations, in-house or at a law firm.
• Fluency in English; additional French or German a plus.
• Knowledge of UK and EU employment laws.
• Ability to manage multiple investigations with integrity and impartiality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Conduct fair, thorough, and timely investigations into allegations of policy violations or local law.
• Initiate and complete all investigation steps, including document reviews, interviews, investigation reports, and recommendations.
• Manage relationships with third-party resources such as digital forensics and document review firms.
• Oversee document reviews, collection, review, and analysis of relevant documents.
• Conduct employee training on the investigation process and reporting channels.
• Support Global Employee Relations Center of Excellence on strategic projects as needed.

Skills

Investigation experience

Interviewing

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Legal risk management

Collaboration across teams

Travel willingness

Education

Degree in Employee Relations, Human Resources or related fields

Job description

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

The vision of KLA’s global human resources organization is to become a leader and partner to operating leadership in support of the company’s efforts to achieve its strategic growth, customer and operating objectives through strategic talent management. Our mission is to enable the business, and leverage human resources to achieve short and long-term business objectives. Our primary areas of strategic focus include talent acquisition, individual and organizational assessment and development, performance management, inclusion and engagement, and rewards. The global HR organization includes HR business partners, learning and development, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, employee communications, and HR system operations.

Based out of Newport, the Employee Relations Investigator, UK and EU will report to the Global Head of Employee Relations Investigations and partner closely with the Global Employment Law Team. The Investigator will be an advocate of KLA’s culture and values and will be responsible for investigating any potential workplace issues that violate KLA’s policies, values and/or applicable laws or regulations. The Investigator is expected to conduct investigations in a fair, impartial, and thorough manner, including conducting employee and third-party interviews, document review and analysis, managing and working with outside law firms, drafting investigation reports and recommendations, and reporting out investigation findings at all levels within KLA, depending on the matter. The Investigator must have uncompromising integrity, be able to handle multiple complex investigations concurrently.

Primary Responsibilities

• Conduct fair, thorough, and timely investigations into allegations of violations of KLA’s policies or local law and policies to ensure fair treatment of all employees.
• Initiate and complete all investigation steps, including document review, interviews, investigation reports, recommend remedial actions, and reporting out on investigation findings, trends, and related metrics.
• Manage and work with third party resources, such as digital forensics, investigation, and document review firms.
• Manage document reviews, including the collection, review, and analysis of relevant documents.
• Conduct employee training on KLA’s investigation process, including reporting channels and the importance of raising issues.
• Support the Global Employee Relations Center of Excellence on other projects, initiatives, and strategic opportunities as may arise from time-to-time.

Skills And Qualifications

• Degree in Employee Relations, Human Resources or related fields.
• Significant professional experience conducting internal workplace investigations in-house or at a law firm.
• Fluent in English. Fluency in other French or Germany highly desirable
• Familiarity with employment laws in UK and EU.
• Willingness to collaborate across teams, multiple regions and time zones, including international travel.
• Excellent communication, analytical, influencing and writing skills.
• Self-motivated and persistent; strong ability and comfort in exercising independent judgment for obtaining results while managing legal risk.

Occasional domestic and international travel, including to the United States, may be required as part of this role

What we will offer you?

Our benefits package includes:

• Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus bank holidays)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Cash health plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Global bonus plan
• Share scheme
• Rewards scheme
• Life assurance

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.