HR Advisor (L&D & Early Careers)

Your role as a HR Advisor (L&D & Early Careers) involves reporting to your Learning & Development Specialist. This HR advisory role focuses on Early Careers and Learning & Development. You’ll assist with our graduate and Early Careers programmes by helping to recruit, onboard, and nurture new talent. Your support will contribute to a seamless, engaging, and well-organised experience for participants.

Alongside this, you will help deliver a flexible, high-quality, and initiative-taking HR service for the site. You will be a key super-user for our HRIS system, supporting robust processes and contributing to a modern, high-impact HR operational model for the wider Edwards site.

• Provide generalist HR support across the site, covering employee relations, performance, absence, engagement, and retention.
• Deliver expert employee relations advice, including conduct, grievances, performance management, and organisational change.
• Coach and support line managers, ensuring consistent, fair application of HR policies and procedures.
• Support Early Careers recruitment and programmes, including campaigns, assessment centres, onboarding, and cohort management.
• Deliver and coordinate Learning & Development activity, including inductions, compliance training, and development programmes.
• Support LMS and training administration, ensuring accurate records, reporting, and audit-ready compliance.
• Provide pastoral support and ensure compliance for Early Careers, including safeguarding, legislative requirements, and engagement initiatives.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement, collaborating across HR teams, external partners (schools/STEM), and improving processes, data, and employee experience.

To succeed, you will need:

• Strong attention to detail with accurate record keeping and reporting.
• Proactive and solutions-focused, able to work at pace and manage changing priorities.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, building credibility with managers and early careers cohorts.
• Strong stakeholder management, confidently balancing expectations and competing priorities across teams.
• High levels of discretion, tact and confidentiality when handling sensitive employee and pastoral matters.
• End-to-end HR generalist experience with a clear passion for Early Careers and Learning & Development.
• Experience in early careers programmes and recruitment, including attraction campaigns, onboarding, cohort management, and development reviews.
• Strong L&D capability, including understanding of the learning cycle, blended learning approaches, and facilitation/group coaching skills.

In return, we offer a culture of trust and accountability, lifelong learning and career growth, and comprehensive compensation and benefits focused on health and well-being.

About Edwards: Edwards is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, exhaust management systems and related value-added services. Edwards solutions are integral to manufacturing processes for semiconductors, flat panel displays, LEDs and solar cells. They are also used within an increasingly diverse range of industrial processes including power, glass and other coating applications; steel and other metallurgy; pharmaceutical and chemical; and for scientific instruments in a wide range of R&D applications. Edwards has over 4,000 employees worldwide engaged in the design, manufacture and support of high technology vacuum and exhaust management equipment. Edwards has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America.