HR Coordinator

Oxford Instruments Plc; England; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the UK is seeking a Graduate HR Coordinator to support day-to-day HR operations, including administration, employee engagement, and payroll support. The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic graduate with strong data skills, eager to learn HR processes in a hybrid role based in High Wycombe. This position offers a supportive environment for developing a broad HR skillset with clear progression pathways.

Benefits

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Private health care

Generous pension

Car scheme

Cycle to work

Income protection

Employee Discounts

Life assurance

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and people-oriented graduate passionate about HR.
• Confidence with numbers and attention to detail required.
• Desire to learn and develop in HR end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day HR operations and administration.
• Manage HR projects and training coordination.
• Assist with payroll inputs and data validation.

Skills

Data accuracy and numeracy

HR administration

Employee engagement

Strong organizational skills

Interpersonal communication

Proactivity

Education

Graduate degree

Tools

HR systems

Excel

Job description

As our Graduate HR Coordinator, you'll support the day‑to‑day operations of our HR function across Head Office – combining hands‑on people interaction with structured, detail‑driven work. You'll develop broad HR expertise while building strong relationships across teams and gaining experience in:

• HR administration: onboarding, contracts, changes, policy queries
• Employee experience: engagement activities, events and communications
• Generalist HR support: regular contact with employees and managers, supporting ER processes
• HR projects: policy reviews, SharePoint management, compliance activity
• Training coordination: managing programmes, providers and logistics
• Payroll support: preparing and validating accurate monthly payroll inputs

Payroll and data work will require confidence with numbers and attention to detail – but the heart of this role is HR, problem‑solving and working with people.

This role is ideal for an enthusiastic, people‑orientated and analytical graduate who is passionate about developing a career in HR, and enjoys working with people, working with data, improving processes, and contributing to a high‑performance culture. It provides a strong foundation for progression into HR generalist, people analytics, or talent development pathways.

You'll thrive here if you are:

• Articulate, confident and able to build rapport at all levels
• Highly organised, reliable and proactive
• Strong with data, numeracy and Excel – comfortable ensuring accuracy
• Curious, motivated and eager to learn HR end‑to‑end
• Professional, discreet and trusted with confidential information

Experience with HR systems or payroll data is helpful but absolutely not essential.

At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world's leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty‑year history, and fourteen Queen's Awards for Enterprise, our world‑class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

Why Oxford Instruments

• Work for a company whose purpose is to accelerate the breakthroughs that advance our world
• Build a broad HR skillset with clear development pathways (HR generalist, people analytics, L&D)
• Gain CIPD support and strong professional mentoring
• Join a culture that values being Inclusive, Innovative, Trusted and Purposeful

At Oxford Instruments, we are proud of the environment that we have created. We hope that by joining us, you will discover why people stay with our business for so long and have such a significant impact on our globally growing success story.

This role is a hybrid role with the main location being High Wycombe. We work from 8:00 am until 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday and finish at 1:00 pm on Fridays, allowing you to start your weekend early.

Other Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private health care
• Generous pension
• Car scheme
• Cycle to work
• Income protection
• Employee Discounts
• Life assurance