Our Client, a British luxury goods manufacture has a vacancy for an HR Manager. This is a varied and interesting role managing the HR, payroll and health and safety functions for 120 employees including Factory Workers, Office Staff, and Retail Staff.
Responsibilities include:
• Set up the HR function for the Brand as the company has no previous internal HR.
• The implementation of all HR processes and procedures.
• First Line for all ER queries, managing and resolving all grievances and disciplinaries
• Conducting Investigation meetings
• Coaching managers through proceeding meetings
• Training Managers and Supervisor to be able to deal with day to day HR Issues
• Mentoring and coaching to senior staff members
• Working alongside an Employment Law Advice company to stay up to date with employment law and ensuring best practice is always followed.
• Being point of contact for all staff regarding any issues
• Promote employee relations and engagement.
• Manage all employee performance and capability issues
• Manage high absence levels and long term sick
• Maintain holiday, sickness, and lateness records for employees.
• Introduce appraisals to the company. Manage the appraisal system including the production of process guides, forms, and training Managers on how to hold appraisals.
• Introduce and manage a probation process including week 1 and 3 month reviews.
• Onboarding of all new staff - implementation of a new joiner process including new joiner inductions
• Issue employment contracts and documents and keep the personal records for each employee up to date.
• Manage the maternity & paternity process
• Manage all flexible working requests
• Manage settlement agreements process
• Manage redundancy process, including writing a business case, conducting consultation meetings, calculations, and paperwork.
• Working with Senior Management on company restructures and staffing level advice
Recruitment
• Implement a recruitment process including sourcing new recruitment agencies to provide staff, training managers on interviewing candidates, introducing a skills test to the interview process.
• Liaise with recruitment agencies to fill vacancies
• Writing job adverts
• Screening CV
• Conducting interviews
Payroll
• Using Sage 50 Payroll. Run 2 x Monthly payrolls for Retail and Office Staff & 1 x Weekly payroll for Factory Staff including calculating the hours worked and run the weekly payroll from clock-cards.
• Pension Administration, manage Auto Enrolment
• Running Ad-hoc payroll reports when required
• Year-End payroll including producing P60’s
• Processing Starters and Leavers
• Calculating Holiday Pay, SMP, SSP, and SPP
• Deal with all payroll queries
Health & Safety
• Keep informed of current employment and health and safety legislation.
• Assist Management to implement the Health and Safety Policy.
• Create and manage company risk assessments
• Keep H&S System up to date.
• Keep fire drill sheets up to date