HR Advisor

Morson Edge; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness is seeking an HR Advisor on a 12 month maternity cover contract. The role involves advising employees, resolving HR queries, and partnering with HR managers to implement people solutions.

You will work within a manufacturing, unionised setting, engaging stakeholders and applying process knowledge across HR domains. You will operate with HR information systems, support enterprise-wide initiatives, and contribute to improving performance through effective people

Qualifications

• Fundamental experience of HR policies and basic understanding of Employment law.
• Ability to advise employees and resolve HR queries in a timely manner.
• Experience in manufacturing or unionised environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advise and acts as a point of contact for employees and/or HR.
• Manage and resolve queries.
• Report into the Senior or non‑senior HR Lead or Partner.
• Provide operational advice on a range of people issues.
• Assist with monitoring key metrics and using HR information systems to input and compile data.
• Operate in a manufacturing, unionised, project‑based organisation.
• Influence and coach others in line with business priorities.
• Work closely with HR Managers, Leads / Partners and Associates.
• Resolve employee relation queries.
• Be a professional with a comprehensive knowledge of People processes, procedures and the Company.

Skills

Operate in a manufacturing and cross‑f

Problem solver and solution orientated

Education

CIPD Level 5

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an HR Advisor to work for BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness on a 12 month maternity cover contract. As an individual in the People Services field, the role holder will focus on the following:

• Contributes to the development of and understands the IBP of the relevant business area.
• Identifies people and organisation requirements underpinning the Integrated Business Plan with a view to driving enhanced customer value.
• Works with Centres of Excellent and the wider HR model to integrate solutions and to evaluate suitability to sector requirements.
• Embeds competitive practice, policies, frameworks, governance, education and supporting tools across HR domains.
• Applies a developed understanding of line of business or sector engaging relevant stakeholders to implement change.
• Supports the analysis of line of business or sector people data and feeds into the CoE, to benchmark and to implement short and long term solutions that improve performance, demonstrating value add.
• Contributes to opportunities for increased effectiveness and cohesion across BAE Systems through enterprise-wide knowledge sharing, as part of CoE driven enterprise-wide steering groups and programmes of work.
• Drives engagement with critical HR processes, with the support of tools e.g. Success Factors.
• Helps broker high quality, precise and robust end-to-end support to internal customers.
• Works across line of business or sector strategic leadership, management and other partners to deploy coordinated, business-oriented solutions.

Role Level Expectations

• Advise and acts as a point of contact for employees and/or HR on their respective field.
• Manage and resolve queries.
• Report into the Senior or non‑senior HR Lead or Partner.
• First port of call for a number of aspects in the organisation.
• Ensure queries are dealt with promptly and reliably.
• Provide operational advice on a range of people issues.
• Assist with monitoring key metrics and using HR information systems to input and compile data.
• Operate in a manufacturing, unionised, project‑based organisation.
• Influence and coach others in line with business priorities.
• Unlikely to have direct responsibility of budgets.
• Work closely with HR Managers, Leads / Partners and Associates.
• Resolve employee relation queries.
• Be a professional with a comprehensive knowledge of People processes, procedures and the Company.

Knowledge

• Fundamental experience of HR policies and procedures, basic understanding of Employment law.

Skills

• Operate in a manufacturing and/or cross‑functional, unionised environment.
• Problem solver and solution orientated.

Qualifications

• CIPD Level 5.

About the Team

Supporting a stakeholders in a multi-disciplined unionised environment in operations, engineering and integration/support disciplines). The team consists of a team of 20 HR professionals. We require In‑depth experience in providing guidance to stakeholder of our HR policies and procedures confidently in what can be complex cases and ability to problem solve with a solution orientated mindset. Some experience of organisational design would be an advantage.