HR Business Partner

Donaldson Timber Systems; Witney; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sustainable home builder in Witney seeks an HR Business Partner to enhance employee performance and engagement. This full-time role focuses on partnering with manufacturing leaders to embed effective HR processes and ensure compliance with UK employment law. The ideal candidate has strong leadership and interpersonal skills along with proven experience in a manufacturing HR role. You'll work in a collaborative HR team, contributing to a dynamic, people-focused business and making a real impact on the organization.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Critical illness cover

Cycle to work scheme

Additional holidays

Qualifications

• Proven experience in manufacturing HR role.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law.
• Committed to being on site 5 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to manage absence effectively.
• Conduct engagement surveys and implement improvements.
• Own the recruitment process and ensure effective onboarding.
• Embed HR processes across group sites.

Skills

Leadership skills

Interpersonal skills

Coaching skills

Influencing skills

Problem-solving mindset

Education

CIPD Level 5 qualified or working towards

Job description

HR Business Partner – fixed term 6 months / 1 year

Location: Donaldson Timber Systems, Witney, Oxfordshire

Contract: Fixed term 6 to 12 months, full-time 36.75 hours per week

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

Are you an experienced HR professional with a passion for driving world‑class performance in manufacturing by partnering brilliantly with the leaders and operators?

We’re looking for an experienced, hands‑on, solutions‑focused, pragmatic HR Business Partner to join our team. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced environment with lots of opportunity to make a real difference to performance, engagement and lives.

What you’ll do:

• Partner with the manufacturing leadership to embed great Absence Management and implement the Absence Management system. Coach the TL and Supervisors day to day with absence management. Support team with decision making and administration for effective absence management. Ensure the management is compliant to all the relevant regulations.
• Partner with the Manufacturing Leaders to carry out an engagement survey and support the leaders to put improvements in place to motivate performance.
• Review organisation and roles within manufacturing and ensure those in role are able and fully capable, have improvement/development plan to be fully capable within a short space of time or make changes. Partner with Leaders to ensure changes are embedded effectively and compliantly.
• Own recruitment process partnering with manufacturing leaders and trainer and ensure all the onboarding is delivered effectively and efficiently. All onboarding and retention tools are in place with success being minimal employee churn with new starts. Partner manufacturing leaders, embed probation reviews and manage effectively.
• Embed Donaldson HR processes that are in place across other group sites and work within the current HR group structure and ways of working.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in manufacturing HR role with strong leadership skills
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and confident decision‑making
• Strong interpersonal, coaching, and influencing skills
• CIPD Level 5 qualified or working towards
• Committed to being on site 5 days per week as living within commutable distance

You’ll be a great fit if you are proactive with a customer‑centric problem‑solving mindset, collaborative with a results‑oriented approach and who works with integrity.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of 165 years with over 1 500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite.

• We have a supportive, well‑established collaborative HR team
• This is an opportunity to make a real difference across a dynamic, people‑focused business
• A catalogue of additional benefits available to purchase such as critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme and additional holidays.

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