HR Business Partner - Industrial in Bradford

As a highly experienced and dynamic HR Business Partner, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our Materials Testing Division as we continue to grow. Reporting directly to the HR Director, you will partner with the Director of the Materials Testing (MT) Division. The MT Division sits within the Aerospace & Defence Business Unit and has operational coverage across both the UK and Europe (France, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Germany).

In this position, you will provide strategic and operational HR support across the Division, serving as a trusted advisor to leadership and HR teams. You will lead complex employee relations matters, implement people initiatives, and contribute to workforce planning, talent management, and organisational development. Collaborating closely with leaders, you will help foster a high-performance, inclusive, and compliant culture.

This hands-on, versatile role will balance operational HR delivery with business-focused HR partnering. This role can be based across the central belt of North Midlands / Manchester and is a remote role with travel.

• Strategic Partnering: Collaborate closely with leadership and managers across the organisation to understand business needs and translate them into effective people initiatives that drive performance and engagement.
• Workforce Planning & Talent Acquisition: Lead recruitment campaigns to build the site’s workforce through both internal talent and new external hires, working closely with talent acquisition teams and external partners. Demonstrate an innovative and collaborative approach to attracting, selecting, and onboarding high-calibre talent.
• Employee Relations Expertise: Provide expert guidance and hands-on management for all employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant processes. Coach managers on best practices in performance management, conflict resolution, etc.
• Operational Excellence: Oversee and continuously improve all core People Operations processes, including but not limited to:

• Performance frameworks focused on continuous feedback and development.
• Compensation & benefits administration, ensuring market competitiveness and fairness.
• D365 /HRIS management and data integrity.
• Compliance with all relevant employment laws and regulations.

Strong Generalist Background: Over 10 years of extensive experience across all aspects of the employee lifecycle, from recruitment support and onboarding to performance management, compensation, benefits, and offboarding. Proven Employee Relations (ER) Expertise: Strategic Partnering Acumen: Ability to build strong relationships with senior leaders and managers, acting as a trusted advisor who can align people strategies with business objectives. A high degree of empathy, emotional intelligence, and unwavering integrity in handling sensitive employee matters.

Competitive salary and benefits package. Career development in a high-growth environment.

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development. Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work.

Diversity Statement: We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”. All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.