Nordex Group
HR and Payroll Administrator
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Nordex has an exciting opportunity for the role of Human Resources & Payroll Administrator based at our UK Head Office in Manchester.
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Didsbury, Manchester
Hours: The working hours for this role are 37 hours per week which include a 3pm finish on Fridays.
How can you make a difference?
As the Human Resources & Payroll Administrator at Nordex, you will support the delivery of day-to-day HR and payroll activities across the UK & Ireland. The role ensures that employee information, processes, and payroll-related tasks are managed accurately and efficiently, while providing a reliable first point of contact for our employees and managers.
What will you be doing?
Key responsibilities for this role include:
- Acting as the primary contact for payroll queries including liaising with our payroll provider to ensure accurate and timely processing and resolution of queries
- Monitoring system generated timesheets to ensure approval within agreed deadlines
- Supporting our employees with system related queries including access issues
- Performing pension upload activities
- Administrative tasks which include producing contracts of employment, changes to terms and conditions and maintaining accurate employee records
- Maintaining external systems including our benefits platform and right to work and reference systems
- Responsibility for triaging any queries that come into shared mailboxes
- Supporting the Recruitment Specialist with screening, shortlisting and interview coordination
- Co-ordinating onboarding requirements for new starters including scheduling medicals
- Producing and distributing regular reports including absence, holiday, and other ad-hoc HR reports as required
- Supporting with compliance activities as and when required
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What are we looking for?
The successful candidate will be an experienced HR Administrator, who is highly proficient in working in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and has experience of working with HR systems including data management and report generation.
You will have strong communication skills with the ability to work independently and have a high attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy and quality.
This role requires a candidate with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Key skills and behaviours required or this role include:
- Hands-on approach with a proactive mindset
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to manage confidential information with discretion
- Ability to use initiative, prioritise tasks, work under pressure, and meet strict deadlines
- Good time management skills
- Understanding of how P&C processes support the wider business
- Experience working in an international, medium-sized organisation (desirable)
- General understanding of employment law and payroll processes (desirable)
A proactive can-do attitude
Discretion as this role is going to be working with sensitive and confidential data
Ability to use your initiative, prioritise your tasks and meet strict deadlines
Good time management skills with the ability to work under pressure
A good understanding on employment law would also be desirable.
What we can offer you?
Time Off
- Our teams receive 33 days annual leave including bank holidays. After two years continual service you will be entitled to an additional day’s holiday per annum (Maximum 5 days). Plus an extra day off for your birthday.
- We also offer our employees the opportunity to purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave every year too.
Health & Wellbeing
- Health and Wellbeing is incredibly important at Nordex, which is why we have different benefits for our employees including:
- Employee Assistance Programme (offering therapy sessions)
- Bike2Work Scheme
- Paid Eye tests & contribution towards Glasses
- Company Sick pay scheme
- The option to purchase Private Healthcare
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Volunteering
- All our employees can use 2 paid working days per calendar year to carry out volunteering activities in your local community.
Family friendly
- Our family friendly policies include, Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave. Compassionate Leave, and Life Insurance.
Memberships
- Nordex will reimburse the cost of one annual professional subscription fee to one professional institution relevant to your work.
Recruitment Process
The closing date for this role is Friday 10th July 2026, however, please be aware that this role could close early if we receive an overwhelming response.
The first stage of the recruitment process requires you to submit your CV via the Apply Now button. The recruitment team will then review your application and be in touch to confirm if you have been successful in reaching the next stage of the process.
We appreciate all the applications we receive and will be in touch with you as soon as we can, so please watch out for our emails or phone calls (which maybe from a withheld number)
Nordex Values, Diversity & Inclusion
Here at Nordex we interact with a variety of people and cultures. Our values of Integrity, Respect, Colleagueship, and Ownership are the unifying force for all departments and regions around the world, these are the standards we walk by.
Our mission is to offer cutting edge, reliable products, and services, generating value for our customers and stakeholders … All whilst protecting the environment.
Join the #TEAMNORDEX and shape the future of energy with us.
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