HR Coordinator / Advisor / Assistant in Falmouth

Build your HR career with one of the UK’s leading marine and port operations businesses. Looking for your next step in HR? Join A&P Falmouth in a varied, hands‑on role where you will build your experience, support colleagues across the business and develop your career in a fast‑paced environment. You will support the full employee lifecycle, provide day‑to‑day HR advice and help deliver a professional, high‑quality people service. If you already have HR experience and want a role where you can learn, contribute and progress, this could be the opportunity for you.

About A&P Falmouth: A&P Falmouth is one of the UK’s largest ship‑repair and port operations facilities, with extensive on‑site engineering, electrical, paint and fabrication capability. It operates from one of the world’s largest natural deep‑water harbours and supports a wide range of marine projects. From ferries and tankers to jack‑ups, pontoons and defence vessels, A&P Falmouth delivers work on high‑profile marine projects while also operating as a busy commercial port.

What you’ll do:

• Act as a first point of contact for day‑to‑day HR advice.
• Support absence management and return‑to‑work processes.
• Assist with employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance and capability cases.
• Support performance management and probation activity.
• Coordinate training and development activity.
• Support recruitment activity, from advertising through to interview.
• Manage pre‑employment checks and onboarding activity.
• Help maintain and improve HR policies and procedures.
• Promote wellbeing initiatives and employee support activity.
• Maintain accurate HR records and database information.
• Provide wider HR administrative support across the team.

What we’re looking for:

• Previous HR experience, ideally in learning and development, training or recruitment.
• CIPD Level 3 qualification, or working towards it.
• Experience supporting employee relations casework would be an advantage.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build positive working relationships.
• Professionalism and discretion when handling confidential information.
• Good Microsoft Office skills, including Outlook, Excel, Word and Teams.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.

What we offer:

This is a great opportunity to build your HR experience, develop your career and make a real impact as part of a supportive team. Salary dependent on experience. A strong benefits package, including:

• Minimum 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• 4% pension contribution and generous death in service benefit.
• Life cover at 7x basic salary.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Any offer of employment will be subject to pre‑employment checks and a successful candidate must be able to meet these requirements. Due to the nature of the work we undertake, all successful candidates must undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check and attain Security Check (SC) Clearance as part of pre‑employment checks.