HR Advisor; 4 month contract; based in Cambridge; 37 hours a week; £22.00 - £23.00 PAYE dependent upon experience.
We are seeking an experienced HR Specialist/HR Advisor to join a busy team within a fast-paced manufacturing environment for Marshall Land Systems based in Cambridge. This role will provide comprehensive, hands‑on HR support to operational leaders, ensuring best practice and compliance across all employee relations matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading and supporting formal consultation processes, including redundancy programmes.
- Managing complex absence management cases.
- Handling disciplinary and grievance procedures end‑to‑end.
- Advising managers on employee relations, policy application, and employment law.
- Supporting organisational change initiatives within an operational setting.
- Promoting positive employee engagement and workplace culture.
Skills / Experience
- Proven HR experience within a manufacturing, engineering, industrial or similar operational environment.
- Strong background in consultation and redundancy processes (essential).
- Demonstrable experience managing disciplinary, grievance and absence cases.
- Confident working autonomously in a fast‑moving environment.
- Up‑to‑date knowledge of UK employment legislation.
- CIPD qualified or working towards (desirable) or qualified by experience.
The jobholder will be pro‑active, able to multi‑task and have experience of liaising confidently with stakeholders at all levels. The role is working in a small, supportive team. You will need to manage complex ER queries and have good knowledge of the employee lifecycle.
The role is working 4 days a week on site and the successful candidate will need to be able to do in‑person consultations on site.
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