People & Culture Manager

Morgan Ryder; Alderley Edge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technical services group in the UK is seeking an experienced People & Culture Manager to shape culture and employee experience. You will lead HR practices, including performance management and recruitment, while driving strategic initiatives across multiple sites. The ideal candidate has substantial HR leadership experience in related sectors. This role offers a competitive salary up to £50,000 with great benefits including career progression and a focus on personal development.

Benefits

Salary up to £50,000

Pension

25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Death in service

2 paid volunteer days annually

Online GP access

Work from home on Fridays

Self-care support

Career progression pathway

Qualifications

• Proven HR leadership experience in engineering or related sectors.
• Experience in multi-site, national organisations.
• Comfortable leading parallel HR projects across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Support performance appraisals and employee feedback.
• Manage recruitment pipelines and workforce development plans.
• Establish L&D priorities and training workflows.
• Advise on compensation and organisational strategy.
• Align values and branding initiatives across the organisation.
• Monitor metrics and provide actionable insights.

Skills

HR leadership experience

Organisational development

Workforce planning

People strategy

Strong communication

Project management

Job description

Overview

Are you ready to shape the culture, talent strategy, and employee experience of a fast-growing, purpose-led technical services group?

A forward-thinking, digitally enabled engineering services group is seeking an ambitious and experienced People & Culture Manager to join their senior leadership team. Operating across multiple UK sites, this group is committed to establishing a best-in-class, high-performance working environment that supports both personal and professional development at all levels.

With ambitious growth targets (doubling in headcount by the end of 2026), this is a critical leadership role - ideal for a values-driven HR leader with a passion for building culture, driving transformation, and delivering scalable people strategies across a national, multi-site technical workforce.

Key Responsibilities

The following responsibilities apply to the role of People & Culture Manager:

• Performance & Engagement - support performance appraisals, employee feedback, engagement initiatives, and proactive employee relations.
• Recruitment & Workforce Development - manage recruitment pipelines, digital tools, onboarding, and create a group-wide workforce development plan.
• Learning & Development - establish and implement L&D priorities, leadership development activities, and future-focused training workflows.
• Policy & Process Excellence - standardise HR policies across subsidiaries, define digital workflows and oversee HR documentation.
• Strategic HR Support - advise the board on compensation, benefits, and organisational strategy; collaborate with functional leads in SHEQ, Finance, Marketing, and IT to drive group-wide initiatives.
• Culture & Employer Branding - align the organisation around group values and brand pillars, create initiatives to sustain high performance, and support outreach activities.
• Operational Excellence - monitor functional metrics, analyse performance data, and define actionable insights for board reporting.

Qualifications

• Proven HR leadership experience, ideally in engineering services or a related sector such as construction, facilities management, or industrial maintenance.
• Strong background in organisational development, workforce planning, and people strategy.
• Experience in multi-site, national organisations with trade/technical workforces.
• Proactive, highly organised, and comfortable leading parallel HR projects across diverse teams.
• A confident communicator who can influence senior stakeholders and inspire teams.
• Enthusiastic about building a modern, supportive, and scalable HR function.
• Comfortable with occasional UK-wide travel.

What’s on Offer

• Salary to £50,000
• Pension
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays
• Death in service
• 2 paid volunteer days annually
• Online GP access
• Work from home on Friday
• Self-care support
• Career progression pathway.
• A purpose-driven working environment with a focus on culture, growth, and impact.
• The opportunity to be part of a leadership team building a truly progressive and future-ready organisation.

How to Apply

Interested? To apply, please follow the 'apply now' link to send your CV to Emma Brighouse at Morgan Ryder Associates.

At Morgan Ryder we can provide you with a full range of employment opportunities from short term and fixed term temporary vacancies to permanent positions.

We recruit for companies that operate in the following industries: Defence Equipment, Food and Drink Manufacturers, FMCG, Packaging, Engineering, Automotive, Aerospace, Warehousing, Logistics, Waste Management, Petro Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Power & Renewable Energy.

Our commitment: Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at Morgan Ryder Associates are critical to our success as DE&I positive company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.

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