HR Advisor

The Company

Our client is a specialist Construction company. Due to growth, they are now looking to recruit a HR Advisor/ Officer from there Newton Aycliffe office.

The Role

• To provide an efficient administration service to the Support / HR department.
• To meet the objectives of the Support / HR department.
• To ensure that the day-to-day advisory and administrative needs for all employees and customers of the department are met in an accurate and timely manner.
• To liaise with Finance to ensure that employees are paid correctly and on time
• To maintain accurate administration within all aspects of the employee life cycle, from new starters to leavers including promotions, salary changes, shift changes, holiday records, T and A records, pensions, private medical insurance and retirement information.
• To respond promptly and professionally to employee queries.
• UK GDPR data minimisation, helping to ensure HR remains legally compliant.
• To assist in the recruitment and selection processes and all related administration.
• To assist the HR Manager in the booking and organising of training courses.
• To maintain accurate production training administration and records, liaising with the HR Officer.
• To administer the Company Sick Scheme, keeping accurate records and paying the correct benefits and to ensure that employees follow the correct procedures.
• Absence management, including helping to control sickness/absence levels through the maintenance and reporting from records, liaising with managers (particularly in Production), providing them with statistics which may highlight problem areas and recommending corrective actions.

The Person

• Previous HR experience is preferred.
• Preferably qualified at Level 3 CIPD or above
• A sound knowledge of HR policies and procedures is required along with advanced knowledge of MS Office, particularly MS Word and Excel.
• The overriding consideration in this job is confidentiality, which must be total.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to prioritise in such a varied job is essential. High accuracy and attention to detail is required at all times.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required as the jobholder has to communicate with employees at all levels and must be persuasive and diplomatic yet firm.
• The jobholder must have the ability to work unsupervised on occasions and still maintain the smooth running of the department.

The Benefits

• You will be working for a well-established growing employer.
• A company experiencing continued growth, expansion and investment.
• The company are fully compliant with the latest health and safety requirements for current safe working p