HR Advisor – Manufacturing

Job Description

Job title: HR Advisor – Manufacturing

Location: 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 skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting HRBPs and People Managers in planning and implementing the People and Organisation Plan for Production Operations
• Using and understanding of the business and relationship management skills to influence, facilitate and implement change
• Providing operational advice on a range of employment and performance issues and business change based on business needs, working in collaboration with the appropriate Centres of Expertise
• Enabling people manager capability uplift, facilitating/supporting/coaching the manager in execution of people initiatives where necessary
• Investigating and resolving complex generalist queries requiring business knowledge and face to face handling
• Reviewing business related people data to identify potential implications within the business context and environment and initiate local actions to resolve these as appropriate
• Enabling functional strength and resource resilience via support to talent, strategic workforce planning and organisational effectiveness activity
• Channelling information to and from the Employee Service Centre and give guidance to the business on how and where to access appropriate support
• Encouraging People Managers to adopt self-service functionality

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience of working with a manufacturing organisation
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders, influencing and challenging constructively to ensure development of solutions which meet business needs
• Ability to explain difficult and sensitive people subject matter to line managers, providing advice, guidance, coaching and direction, investigating and resolving complex people issues
• Experience of handling and presenting data, analysing information from a variety of sources, demonstrating evidence based decision making
• Experience of identifying People and Organisation priorities as a HR business partner, delivering operational people and organisation outcomes and reacting to business needs with some complexity involved

Desirable:

• Human Resources or related subject degree /Associate member of the CIPD or working towards, or equivalent experience

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 AIR HR Team:

As a Human Resources Advisor, you will be joining the Air HR team into a role supporting the enabling functions and lines of business within the Air sector. You will be responsible for providing a range of HR advice and guidance to various functions, leaders and people managers requiring a depth of understanding of how to operationalise, integrate and deliver HR policies, processes, projects and managing change and transformation in a business.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 10th June 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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