HR Officer in Tamworth

Flexible on hours; will consider part-time or full-time but minimum 24 hours per week. Up to £40k pa (FTE) depending on experience. Annual bonus up to 10% of salary. 33 days holiday and contributory pension.

Location: Based in Kingsbury, B77 1LT with occasional visits to Eastbourne and Newhaven sites; therefore, the ability to drive and own a car is essential.

Founded in 1995, Kingsbury Pallets Limited established itself as a sustainable, robust and reliable partner for all pallet and packaging requirements. Consistent investment in our people, sites and new technology has enabled us to grow the business organically to become one of the UK’s largest independently owned pallet providers. Now part of the Rotom Group, Kingsbury Pallets is working towards future growth and alignment with the wider group of companies.

As part of our ongoing Growth Plan, we are seeking to broaden our internal expertise with a newly scoped HR Officer role. This is a really exciting opportunity to be the first in-house HR Professional for this 90-person group of businesses. We are looking for someone to take full ownership of all HR processes and help us to continue to build a capable, high-performing team.

Providing a comprehensive generalist HR service to the business that ultimately delivers skilled, creative, motivated, flexible and committed employees. Working closely with Managers and Senior Leaders to enable business success, drive cultural change, deliver efficiencies and support people management and development.

We want you to evolve the HR function and service, deliver strategy/project work (including results of any external audit/gap analysis). Overall a hands-on role with the need to deliver key strategic projects in close collaboration with the MD.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the induction of new employees into the organisation identifying training needs as and when appropriate.
• Ongoing review to ensure onboarding process provides the best employee experience.
• Discipline and grievance providing support to line managers and employees on company procedures.
• Answer day-to-day HR queries.
• Full administration of the starter/leaver process including drafting contractual documentation.
• Record, maintain and analyse absence data, taking/recommending action as required.
• Management and reporting of all exit interviews.
• Manage and support the end-to-end recruitment and selection process.
• Ensure enforcement of internal procedures and controls.
• Contribute to manpower/workforce planning in conjunction with MD and Senior Management.
• Identify, plan and evaluate training and development of staff in conjunction with operational managers.
• Mentor, counsel, coach and generally support those in the business who are not confident in their area of competence.
• Act as custodian to existing contractual and policy documentation and our online HR system.
• Collate data, perform data analysis and report on HR related KPIs.
• Ensure up to date with forthcoming employment legislation/regulation changes.
• Make recommendations for HR related business improvement ideas/initiatives and/or organisational change.

Qualifications & Experience (Essential):

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or CIPD level 5 qualified min (CIPD7 desirable).
• Minimum 3 years HR Generalist experience, ideally in a multi-site business.
• Strong Employee Relations/Employment Legislation.
• Competent in robust recruitment practices.
• Creating and delivering HR training and development.

Words to describe the ideal character: Happy to roll up sleeves on the day-to-day, as well as working on project work; positive and professional; high attention to detail; engaging writing style; persuasive and influential, but in a consultative approach style to win confidence; robust in character, driven and ambitious; collaborative; analytical and commercially astute.

If you feel this role looks right for you and you feel you can contribute significantly to our Business Growth Plans and want to join our team, it's time to get your application started. Please apply through this advert with an up-to-date CV and covering letter stating why you feel you are suitable for the role, also detailing your salary requirements. Please do not contact Kingsbury Pallets directly as your application may not be seen.

Deadline for applications: 19th January 2026 (applications will be reviewed as they come in). This is likely to be a 2-stage interview process with the 2nd interview including at least a psychometric assessment and one presentation. NO AGENCIES PLEASE.