HR Advisor

Job Title: HR Advisor

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

Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing operational advice on a range of people issues including case management & employee relations issues
• Influencing and coaching others in line with business priorities
• Assisting with monitoring key metrics and using HR information systems to input and compile data
• Operating in a manufacturing, unionised, project-based organisation
• Working closely with a wide range of stakeholders, providing timely accurate and quality support
• Ensuring comprehensive understanding and communication of People processes and procedures within the business

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Comprehensive experience in an HR Advisor role or equivalent
• A good level of knowledge across all HR disciplines
• Can demonstrate ability to interpret relevant data and metrics and business information to enable effective business decision making
• A good level of employee relations knowledge and experience of managing employee relations cases

Desirable:

• Basic knowledge of project management principles and how to apply these in practice
• Has experience working within a complex business environment
• Experience working in partnership with Trade Unions and employee representatives
• CIPD qualified or working towards

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 HR team:

The People function fosters a genuine partnership with the business, boasting a well-recognised high-level reputation for its capability within the function and the broader business community. Operating within a dynamic and fast-paced environment, there is abundant variety and opportunities to actively participate in shaping the organisation during periods of change. This is a customer facing role with real impact, fostering collaboration across the business and people function.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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: 21st May 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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