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HR Advisor

🏢 Alkegen 📍 Macclesfield, England 💼 Company - Private
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£42,000 - £65,000
£3,500 - £5,417 / mo
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Location Base
Macclesfield, England
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
Single tax filer baseline
Transatlantic Parity
1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

Job Requirements

Why work for us?
Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation and sealing materials. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we’re delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.
With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.
Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with globe-spanning reach. From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we’re always looking for top talent ready to bring their best. Come grow with us!
As HR Advisor you will be responsible for delivering a proactive and effective HR service to managers and colleagues at our Rainford, Derby and Alderley Edge facilities. Reporting into the Lead HRBP, you will support all functions across the sites providing advice and guidance in areas such as employee relations and HR policies & procedures. You will be involved with activities around compensation & benefits, employee survey, engagement, recruitment, performance management, merit review process and salary administration.
Typical responsibilities may include:
  • Providing first line support and advice to colleagues on HR policies and processes
  • Workday – supporting managers to utilise system effectively, upskilling colleagues where required or signposting to relevant support
  • Creation and maintenance of employee contracts and documents associated with employee lifecycle – new starters, leavers, maternity, paternity, flexible working or special leave
  • Supporting investigations, including grievance and disciplinary, performance review process and absence management.
  • Assisting with administration of the Pay Review, Benefits Review or Change processes as required.
  • Employee engagement survey – support sites with quarterly comms, roll out, involved in engagement activities and action planning process
  • Champion effective absence management processes to ensure absence levels are regularly monitored and dealt with appropriately.
  • Reviewing and updating job descriptions
  • Recruitment - supporting managers with shortlisting, interviews, offers, induction and onboarding
  • Creation of employee data reports as and when required using Workday. Auditing of data in Workday.
  • Part of team - monitoring, review and updating all HR policies and ensuring these are in line with current legislation
  • Regular contributor to Site Briefs and other site communications, attendance at briefings
  • Liaising with H&S to arrange on site medicals, organize referrals to OH Physician
  • Champion and administer the company Reward platform – Alkegen Thanks
  • Providing support with ongoing HR Projects
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time or without notice.
What do we look for?
Everything we do as an organisation is to ensure that we produce high quality speciality products that help our customers save energy, reduce pollution and improve fire safety. Our talented HR team form a vital part of that vision, so it’s important that we find the best people to help us do this.
As HR is all about our people, you’ll be a strong communicator, able to build relationships easily and collaborate well with others. Beyond that, our HR team is passionate about acting as a forward-thinking partner to the business, creating innovative solutions to inform Alkegen’s wider business strategy, and helping to ensure the future of the business.
As a member of the team, we’ll give you responsibility and the opportunity to add value. If you are excited by inspiring and influencing then this is the career path for you.

What you'll need to succeed:
  • CIPD level 5 or above
  • A proven track record as a HR Officer/HR Advisor or equivalent role
  • Ability to multi-task, deal with ambiguity and challenge the status quo in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong communication skills
  • The ability to influence and engage
  • Excellent organiser and able to demonstrate initiative
  • Comfortable with analysing data, identifying trends and making appropriate recommendations.
  • Workday experience would be an advantage
  • Demonstrated competency in computer applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
If you are interested in being part of a world class Human Resource here at Alkegen then we would love to hear from you.
At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people – ALL PEOPLE – breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.
Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.
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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

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Application & Resume Screening

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2

Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

3

Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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