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As an HR Officer, you will play a crucial role. You will provide professional HR support, contribute to strategic planning, and ensure compliance with employment laws. Additionally, you will drive the recruitment process, training, and employee development while fostering a positive workplace culture. This is a great opportunity for you to develop your HR career working on a variety of different people initiatives and contributing your ideas to enhance our employee and candidate offering.

Key Responsibilities

• HR Operations & Compliance
  • Provide HR support and advice across the organisation in both NI and ROI.
  • Ensure compliance with employment legislation and company policies.
  • Manage employee records, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.
• Recruitment & Onboarding
  • Develop job descriptions, prepare advertisements, engage with agencies as and when required, reviewing applications and shortlisting, interviewing candidates creating job offers.
  • The administration of all aspects of recruitment and onboarding processes for vacancies.
  • Carrying out new starter inductions and paperwork, ensuring new start induction plan in place.
  • Maintain applicant tracking systems and support recruitment administration.
  • Ensuring collection of monitoring return information for all vacancies and completion of necessary paperwork for the preparation of the annual Equal Opportunities Return form.
• Employee Development & Performance
  • Assist line Managers in ensuring all probation periods are reviewed in a timely manner.
  • Promote learning and development initiatives.
  • Assist with coordinating training schedules and materials.
• Employee Engagement & Relations
  • Advise on HR and employment law matters.
  • Organise social events and employee engagement activities.
  • Support disciplinary and grievance procedures, ensuring compliance.
  • Monitor and manage employee absenteeism.

This job description is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirement of the post holder. The job description will be reviewed regularly and may be subject to change. From time to time, you may be required to travel to our Antrim site or to the ROI Depots.

Education & Experience

• 2+ years HR experience.
• GCSEs (including English & Maths) or equivalent.
• CIPD part-qualified or working towards certification.
• Experience in employee records management.
• Knowledge of employment law NI and ROI, recruitment, and training best practices.
• Previous experience in performance management and employee relations.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience handling staff queries and supporting HR projects.
• Ability to manage sensitive information with confidentiality.
• Effective multitasking and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong time management and ability to prioritise workload.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Capable of working independently and making sound decisions.
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills to ensure smooth HR operations.

Hours of Work: Monday to Thursday: 08.00 - 17.00, Friday: 08.00 - 14.00

Rights to work in the United Kingdom
Applicants for this role must be eligible to work legally in the United Kingdom. The successful applicant will be asked to evidence their right to work in the UK before being formally offered the role. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, we will not be able to consider you for this role.

SDC Trailers LTD is an equal opportunities employer.

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