HR Advisor

Job Title: HR Advisor

Location: Samlesbury and Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £54,793+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Building a deep understanding of both business winning and industrialisation context and related people challenges, using insights to drive change and improve workforce performance
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for increased efficiency and synergy in the delivery of people services, ensuring that processes are both effective and people-friendly
• Engaging with critical business processes through tools like SuccessFactors, Qualtrics and internal data dashboards ensuring that industrialisation and business winning teams are well-informed and supported throughout any change initiatives
• Delivering high quality, accurate, and efficient end-to-end HR services to support the industrialisation team and broader business objectives
• Collaborating with strategic leadership and management to deploy integrated, business-focused solutions that emphasise both operational excellence and the wellbeing of the workforce
• Championing the importance of a people-first approach in all industrialisation activities, ensuring that technical and operational changes enhance employee engagement and performance

Your skills and experiences:

• Human Resources or related subject degree or equivalent experience
• Associate member of the CIPD, working towards it, or equivalent
• In-depth knowledge of HR processes, along with an awareness of external market standards and trends
• Experience working in international markets, particularly in the Middle East, with specific exposure to environments in regions such as KSA, Turkiye, and Qatar

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Industrialisation service delivery management Team:

You will support the Industrialisation service delivery management team, People Managers, and the wider HR team to develop and deliver the People Plan.

In this role, you will not only identify risks and opportunities but also actively create people-focused solutions that enable business outcomes and drive a culture of continuous improvement. You will provide operational advice and guidance to line managers on a range of employment, performance, and change management issues. By coaching and mentoring managers, you will embed best practices, enhance people manager capability, and ensure that our industrialisation teams are aligned, engaged, and supported throughout complex transformation processes.

Your role will also contribute to the Air Sector Strategic Campaign People and Organisation plans for KSA, Turkiye, and Qatar by partnering with Centres of Expertise (CoEs) to develop innovative solutions and strengthen our employee value proposition (EVP).

This is an exciting new opportunity within the company that offers significant scope for growth and influence across international markets. The role will also involve travel to overseas locations, providing a unique chance to work closely with teams in diverse environments and gain valuable global experience.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 4th April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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