• Drive and deliver HR initiatives to support business needs, culture and values, including succession planning, employee engagement, management development and organisational change• Represent the HR function at a senior management level, co-ordinating all HR initiatives across the business• Management of the HR Team, providing support and guidance as required, and encouraging development and career progression• Scoping and subsequent project management of the implementation of a self service HR and Recruitment system. • Extensive knowledge of HR and recruitment system build including objects, formula fields, workflows, field sets, system automation, creation of action events, report building and scheduling. • Creation of detailed HR and Recruitment User manuals containing step by step process guides for the HR Team, Managers and Team Members and design and delivery of full system training• Launch of the HR system into the business including Manager and Team Member self service, absence management, employment changes request functionality and HR reporting.• Launch of the recruitment system to enable a fully functioning applicant tracking system. • Managing the continued development of both the HR and Recruitment system on an ongoing basis, • Co-ordination and delivery of change strategies, restructures, redundancy process and TUPE• Lead on all ER issues and providing guidance and coaching to managers• Ownership of the job evaluation and benchmarking process• Effectively lead and develop the Talent Strategy for the business, focusing on the review and rebranding of the competency framework and the integration of this into the resourcing and development strategies.• Lead on resourcing, ensuring timely recruitment and identification of a pipeline of talent• Working with local institutions and schools to continually raise the profile of the business in the local area to attract external talent through traineeships and direct entry roles

Key Responsibilities• Management of the HR function in terms of policies, contracts, employee relations, monthly payroll and training and development• Involvement in all administrative tasks within the Company and reconciliation of monthly accounts• Involvement in accounts and both Sales and Purchase Ledger• Providing advice to customers and dealing with enquiries by using technical breakdowns and liaising with manufacturers• Stock control and ordering

Key Responsibilities• Management of the Human Resource and Training function across the Lincoln site (approximately 300 employees)• Management of a team of three Human Resource personnel• Attendance at weekly Operations Meetings• Management of KPI targets• Management of the recruitment process• Employee Relations and providing advice and guidance to managers and employees• Policy development• Absence Management• Involvement with Health & Safety issues on site• Design and delivery of training• Performance Management• Design and delivery of the Employee Opinion Survey• Design and coordination of the Graduate Development Programme and coordination of the Management Development Programme• Involvement in the design and roll out of a new HR database• Involvement in company audits by external auditors and temporary agency suppliers

Key Responsibilities• Provide Human Resource and Training support to the Production area of the business (approximately 650 employees and managers)• Deputy to HR Manager• Recruitment of all positions within the production area• Co-ordination of foreign secondments• Production of people metrics and monthly forecasting reports• Evaluation of job profiles and job family models through the Hay Method of evaluation• Absence Management • Provide guidance and support to managers on disciplinary and grievance issues• Advice on best practice and employment law• Involvement in the development of policies and procedures• Involvement and negotiation with Trade Unions• Maintaining the SAP HR System• Pensions liaison• Delivery of training and development needs• Running the company induction programme

Key Responsibilities• Assessing training and development requirements across the business• Liaising with training providers to source the appropriate courses to meet business needs• Organisation and coordination of Management Development Programmes• Organisation and running of inductions and training sessions• Training evaluation• Maintaining the Compel training database• Recruitment of graduates and industrial trainees • Liaising with Universities over advertising vacancies and recruitment and attendance at careers fairs• Organisation and coordination of assessment centres• Organisation of training plans for graduate trainees• Day-to-day co-ordination of the Graduate Development Programme• Main point of contact for Engineering Institutions (IMechE, IEE, IIE)• Co-ordinating sponsorship for industrial trainees by use of psychometric testing• Organisation and running of inductions and training sessions

Key Responsibilities• Recruitment of all positions in the Prion and Cell Biology Units• Preparing contracts and changes to appointments• Management of probation reports• Liasing with Occupational Health over new starters, follow up action and referrals• Liasing with Unit Administrators and Payroll, in order to manage all new starter information effectively• Input and retrieve data from the Oracle computerised information system• Main point of contact for all HR queries coming into the office• Personal Assistant to the Head of Centre