Parker Hannifin
Location HR Manager (maternity cover)
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Are you ready to take on an exciting opportunity? We’re seeking a dynamic candidate for a 12-month maternity cover for Location HR Manager in Barnstaple. This role offers a unique chance to gain invaluable experience, drive HR strategies, and accelerate your professional development in a supportive environment.
Your Main Responsibilities (not Exhaustive)
- Provide line managers with support, guidance, and clarification on all matters relating to people management.
- Manage employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, absence, capability, and performance matters, ensuring fair and consistent processes.
- Drive initiatives focused on employee engagement, performance management, talent acquisition, and talent development.
- Support the full recruitment cycle across the site for all permanent roles.
- Manage the site apprenticeship programme, including attracting and selecting candidates, coordinating development, monitoring progress, while working closely with the local college and mentors to improve delivery, outcomes, and the overall scheme.
- Manage compensation, benefits, and performance review processes.
- Ensure compliance with UK employment law, HR policies, and best practice.
- Promote a positive, inclusive, and high-performing workplace culture.
Who We Are Looking For
- University degree or CIPD Level 5 with relevant experience in an HR management or advisor role.
- High level of customer focus and excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to forge good working relationships at all levels within the organisation.
- Well-balanced strategic and operational mindset with a strong results orientation.
- Solid practical knowledge of UK Employment law and Parker Policies.
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- Fluency in English is essential.
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- A unique development opportunity.
- Access to a wide range of team-building activities and events organized by our Social Club.
EMEA Business Descr
Parker Hannifin EMEA Sàrl (“PHEMEA”), based in Etoy, Switzerland, is the Principal Operating Company for Parker in the EMEA region. It is supported by a network of Parker Manufacturing Divisions and Sales Company Entities. The Instrumentation Group EMEA is a strategic business Group within PHEMEA. Instrumentation Products Division EMEA (IPDE) is a key service provider to PHEMEA.
Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.
With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.
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Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.
Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.
By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.
As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Parker is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on grounds of age, race, religion, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or disability in relation to recruitment and employment.
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