Senior HR Advisor

To provide leadership to the HR Operations team in the delivery of a customer focused, effective and efficient service to the business.

This key role is designed to br responsible for supporting all people matters arising throughout the employee life cycle. To advise, guide and coach managers on HR best practice, ensuring consistency in the application of the people policies across the business.

Client Details

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales.

Our in-house design studio co-creates the most innovative experiences in the sky with our airline customers and partners. Our dedicated engineering, production and in-service support facilities are integral to delivering a high-end quality product that we keep flying throughout the life of programme. We are fully supported by a wide team of support functions, from HR to Finance, to Business Development and Planning and Logistics, our team is built to give Safran Seats an end-to-end capability in house in the UK.

Description

 Effectively advise, guide and coach managers through all people related issues, promoting best practice and ensuring consistency in managing issues.
 Develop effective and strong relationships with managers at all levels to promote good employee relations, coaching where needed to encourage early intervention to prevent escalation where possible.
 Advise and support on the management of formal people processes, attending formal meetings and ensuring accurate records are taken and providing advice on process where necessary.
 Lead on Absence Management across the business, proactively liaising with managers to ensure absence issues are addressed in a consistent way, through coaching, advising and supporting managers.
 Responsible for advising on occupational sick pay entitlements, liaising with payroll to ensure timely communication with employees of changes in pay whilst absent.
 To be the main point of contact with the Occupational Health provider. Responsible for making referrals where necessary and ensuring the medical reports are informative to the business. Liaise with the provider for usage information to share with the business.
 To promote EAP where appropriate. Liaise with the EAP provider for usage information to share with the business.
 Responsible for provision of agreed MI across the business, including data analysis and insight.
 To attend departmental management meetings to review and discuss workforce planning, people related issues and MI reports.
 To review and assist in improving HR processes to provide a first class HR service.
 To work with the HR Business Partner in supporting the PDP for the HR Administrator.
 To contribute and lead on HR projects as agreed.
 Support and engage in company initiatives, including, Continuous and Process Improvements, etc.
 Take personal responsibility on keeping abreast of employment law and HR best practices and feedback to the HR team.
 Work closely with the L&D team to develop training material in line with best practice and legal updates.

Profile

• CIPD or equivalent HR qualification
• Demonstrable experience of dealing with a broad range and high volume of HR issues as a HR generalist
• Working knowledge of HR processes and systems
• Experience of working with HR Systems such as ADP / SAP / Success Factors and ability to extract information.
• Demonstrable strong interpersonal skills and able to build strong effective working relationships at all levels
• Competent user of MS Office applications (including intermediary level Excel and Word)
• Excellent organisational skills; demonstrable ability to multi task whilst still meeting deadlines.

Job Offer

Our employees are at the heart of our success, as we work together for our sustainable future. There are four People Fundamentals that underpin life at Safran:
* We believe in and promote diversity and inclusion as key values across our business
* We develop our colleagues skills and build opportunities so you can shape our future
* We create a trustworthy work place to support you, as you dare to act and innovate
* We encourage collaboration and mutual support for you and your colleagues

As a valued member of our team, these are just a few of the benefits you'll receive:
* 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays
* Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts and access to private healthcare
* Career Progressions opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses
* Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave and flexible working