Human Resources Generalist in Larne

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Salary: £35,000 to £52,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Location: Larne

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Up to 10% bonus
• Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double the employee’s contribution up to 6%
• Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee’s contribution
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase

About EPD: Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back‑up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centres, municipalities, and more. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers.

The Opportunity: As a Human Resources Generalist/Facility Communicator, you will provide a comprehensive range of HR support to leaders and employees across the Larne facility. This includes HR advice and coaching on policy, processes, strategic workforce planning, employee relations, performance management and career planning, driving engagement, diversity and inclusion, implementing HR transformation activities, professional communications, and promoting positive employee relations with key stakeholders, including trade union.

What You’ll Do:

• Support and provide HR guidance to key customer groups within the Larne facility, including operations employees, salaried employees, middle‑management employees and leaders at all levels.
• Strategic workforce planning – encompassing early careers, hourly production, mid‑level hiring and vendor management.
• Talent & Development – Foster a culture of learning with a strong focus on talent and succession planning that will support development and retention to enable business success.
• Drive the students and graduate apprentice program.
• Employee relations – work closely with employees, leaders and trade union representatives on all employee‑relations matters to foster a positive working environment and drive engagement across the facility.
• HR projects – be involved in a variety of HR projects including wage negotiations, training and upskilling and continuous improvement of HR policies & procedures.
• Facility communications – work with facility leaders to share information out to the organization, partner with corporate communications on initiatives that may require local support.

What You’ll Have:

• Decision making and critical thinking – knowledge of decision‑making tools and ability to analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Effective communication – understanding of communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information and needs through appropriate communication behaviours.
• Interpersonal relationships – ability to build relationships, establish trust and work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Data gathering and reporting – knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.
• Employee relations – knowledge of rights and obligations in employee relations and ability to adhere to legal requirements when handling employee negotiations.
• HR policies, standards and procedures – knowledge of human resource function and ability to uphold organisation and industry standards, procedures and policies regarding human resources management.

Top candidates will also have:

• Degree or equivalent experience in Human Resources
• CIPD qualified
• Ability to work proactively on own initiative, demonstrating agility while dealing with a varied portfolio of customer groups and business needs.
• Energy and enthusiasm to support a drive to improve culture and engagement.
• Knowledge of organisation – knowledge of the organisation’s vision, structure, culture, philosophy, operating principles, values and code of ethics; ability to understand the value of aligning capabilities with business goals to support optimal performance.
• Previous knowledge or experience with communications standards and principles.

Additional Information: Requires working onsite five days a week. Travel about 5% within NI/UK.

About Caterpillar: Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off‑highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel‑electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed to contributing to a reduced‑carbon future.

What You Will Get: Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. You will benefit from a very competitive compensation and benefits package, career development and training opportunities, from a globally‑renowned company driven by its core values of Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork, Commitment and Sustainability.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.