People Officer

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

People Officer
Tissot
Hinkley Point C

Main Duties:

• Recruitment & Onboarding: Manage the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, including posting vacancies, screening CVs, coordinating interviews, and designing an engaging onboarding experience for new hires.
• Performance Management: Oversee the annual appraisal cycle, support managers in implementing Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs), and coach leadership on managing team development.
• Training & Development: Coordinate and schedule training sessions, identify skills gaps across the business, and maintain thorough compliance and training records.
• Culture & Engagement: Drive initiatives that boost employee engagement, communication, and overall workplace satisfaction.
• Case Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for employee relations (ER) and industrial relations (IR), providing sound advice on workplace policies.
• Disciplinary & Grievances: Guide and support line managers through lower-to-mid level disciplinary, grievance, and capability procedures, ensuring strict adherence to ACAS guidelines and legal compliance.
• Absence Management: Track short and long-term sickness absence, conducting reviews and managing welfare cases.
• Payroll Liaison: Collate monthly timesheets, track contractual variations (such as promotions or salary adjustments), and process starters/leavers data.
• Data Accuracy: Ensure all data is accurately prepared and handed off to our payroll system/external bureau, and act as the first point of contact for internal staff payroll queries.

Requirements:

• 2-3 years of experience in a progressive HR generalist role.
• CIPD Level 5 qualification (or actively working towards it)
• Experience of using databases and/or other similar IT information systems (e.g., HRIS).
• Experience processing data variations or timesheets for a monthly payroll cycle.
• Experience designing or coordinating internal training programs.
• Experience of MS Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Direct experience managing lower-to-mid level Employee Relations (ER) cases (e.g., absences, disciplinary, grievances).
• Coordinating the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle and onboarding.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.