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HR Advisor

AT Waters
Waters

HR Advisor

Macclesfield, United Kingdom

Overview

We have a great opportunity for a HR Advisor to join our team in Wilmslow on a fixed term basis for 12 months.

You will be part of the Europe HR Operations team working closely with colleagues in the UK and across Europe. As HR Advisor you will support our RDAT & Software/Connected Science business segments along with a Manufacturing Facility in Birmingham, so experience supporting corporate functions and oprations would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

  • Provide line managers with coaching on employee relations topics such as performance, absence, ill health, disciplinary and grievances
  • Ensuring the consistent interpretation and application of HR policies
  • Supporting managers through change management
  • Supporting the review and updating of HR policies and embedding these within the organisation
  • Supporting managers with offers of employment including appropriate job grading
  • Dealing with employee relations issues including disciplinary, grievances etc

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Qualifications

As part of the HR Operations team, you will also work alongside HRBPs and a HRSS function based in Europe and America as well as working alongside the Talent Acquisition team. We are a close-knit HR community who meet and support each other regularly.

This is a phenomenal opportunity to develop your experience with a global organisation and directly support approx 300 employees at our Wilmslow & Longbridge sites.

We ask that you have:

  • Experience in a similar HR role supporting managers on a day-to-day basis
  • An appropriate HR qualification, minimum CIPD level 5
  • An understanding of HR principles, theories and concepts
  • Coaching experience, supporting people leaders with managing performance and implementing policies and procedures
  • Experience with change management and collective consultations
  • UK employment law knowledge and experience in employee relations

Travel requirements

  • You will primarily be based form Wilmslow (Hybrid Model) with travel to the Longbridge site (Birmingham) to support the management team on a monthly basis

In return:

We work in a flexible, hybrid model at Wilmslow. We offer competitive salary, substantial benefits and an exceptional office space where people can collaborate and enjoy the purpose built facilities.

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to work flexibly. Please don't hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around hybrid working and flexibility; we'll do our best to support you.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Waters Wilmslow:

People create the Waters difference. By engaging with our talented and diverse workforce we continuously evolve, develop and enhance our products. Being the world's leading speciality measurement company, we believe in delivering innovative technology and system solutions to our valued customers to enable their success. At Wilmslow, our focus is on the development and delivery of mass spectrometry systems and software in a collaborative and dynamic team environment.

Our mass spectrometers deliver benefit to customers in many industries and make a meaningful impact to our lives through examples such as

  • Neo-natal screening to keep babies healthy
  • Ensuring consistent, reliable safety in our global food and water supply
  • Developing new medicinal therapies to advance human health
  • Ensuring participants in the world's sporting events compete fairly

Client-provided location(s): Wilmslow SK9, UK
Job ID: Waters-20978
Employment Type: Other