Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Your New Role
As the standalone HR Manager, you'll be joining a long-established manufacturing business with a loyal, longstanding workforce. This is a business that values stability, communication, and someone who can genuinely make an impact.
As the standalone HR Manager, you'll be the go-to expert for all things HR, owning the HR agenda.
This is a role for someone confident, experienced, and ready to bring structure, ideas, and modern HR practice into the organisation.
The culture is friendly and down-to-earth. The successful candidate will need to be approachable, comfortable pushing back where required, and able to build relationships with staff at all levels.
Responsibilities:
- Generalist HR leadership – own the full HR remit across the employee lifecycle.
- Recruitment & onboarding – manage hiring.
- Employee relations – handle day-to-day ER, including sickness, disciplinaries, conduct, and informal issues.
- Policy development – create and implement policies from scratch.
- Training & development – support capability building across factory and office teams.
- Employee benefits & engagement – review, improve and embed benefits and engagement initiatives.
- HR systems & processes – bring structure, consistency and best practice to HR operations.
This is a blank canvas role that offers an exciting opportunity to work autonomously, shaping the function, introducing structure, and modernising HR for the future.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Strong experience as a standalone HR Manager or senior HR generalist
- Confidence working autonomously and advising staff and managers
- Thick-skinned, pragmatic, and comfortable in a traditional factory environment
- Ability to influence, challenge, and modernise ways of working
- Experience in manufacturing or similar blue-collar environments is highly desirable.
- Someone who brings ideas, solutions, and a proactive approach
Benefits
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Death in service – 4× salary + bonus
- Annual bonus – currently £1,450 (performance based)
- Pension (age-banded): offering between 5 – 8%
- Christmas vouchers – starting at £80 and increasing with service
- Enhanced full sick pay
- 35-hour week
What you need to do now
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