HR Manager (12240)

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Job Title 

HR Manager - Redditch

Location  

Redditch, site based

About Us

Gardner Denver is a leading provider of mission-critical flow control and compression equipment and associated aftermarket parts, consumables, and services, which it sells across multiple attractive end-markets within the industrial, energy and medical industries. Its broad and complete range of compressor, vacuum and blower products and services, along with its application expertise and over 160 years of engineering heritage, allows Gardner Denver to provide differentiated product and service offerings for its customers' specific uses.

Job Summary

The HR Manager provides strategic and operational HR leadership for our site. Acting as the guardian of site HR, you will ensure the business operates effectively by managing all HR issues, overseeing an onsite HR Administrator, and delivering tailored HR plans and solutions. Partnering with management, you’ll drive employee engagement, oversee employment relations, and ensure legal compliance. You will also play a key role in mergers, acquisitions, or disposals, and support business strategy through effective change management. This is a dynamic opportunity to lead HR initiatives and contribute to the success of the business.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with site and HR management teams to execute business priorities.
• Lead and manage the on-site HR team, focusing on people management, wellbeing, training, and local HR process support.
• Advise and support site leadership on employment legislation, absence management, grievances, redundancies, remuneration, training, and company policy.
• Oversee the entire employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, employee changes, benefits administration, and offboarding.
• Ensure site compliance with internal policies, legislative updates, and company practices.
• Manage annual processes, including compensation and performance reviews, benefits renewals, rewards, and wellbeing initiatives.
• Implement workforce planning, employee engagement initiatives, and support integration for new acquisitions.
• Coordinate site training needs, manage apprenticeships, support corporate initiatives, and participate in ad hoc projects.

Basic Qualifications

• CIPD Qualified (level 5 min)
• Degree in Human Resources or business management subject.

Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements

Fully site based with flexibility to travel to other UK & Ireland sites (less than 25% travel)

Key Competencies

• Experience of generalist HR and leading HR site operations, managing and developing onsite HR team.
• Demonstrated success in advising and influencing management teams on the full remit of operational HR activities in country remit.
• Expertise in UK employment legislation and extensive knowledge of policies, procedures and compliance
• Strong written skills with proven ability to draft policies, procedures and reports.
• Good coaching & mentoring skills with ability to resolve conflict situations.
• Delivery focused with the ability to prioritise and organise own and teams workload agreed within deadlines.
• Ability and skill to evaluate information and to inform management decisions.

• What we Offer

• 25 Days Holiday + 8 Bank Holidays (Option to purchase 5 days after probation period)
• 7% Employer Pension Contribution
• Westfield Health Medial Cash Plan Cover
• Death in Service Benefit of 4 x salary
• Cycle scheme (After probation period)
• Electric Car Scheme (After 1 year employment)
• 10% of salary in shares after 1 year of employment
• Costco Gold Company member, allowing employees to join.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Policies

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.