HR Administrator

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities. GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary It’s great to know you’re making a difference to the future of aviation! Whatever part you play you’ll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers. At our GKN Filton site, we specialise in the design and manufacture of large complex structural wing assemblies, detailed metallic components and wing systems for a combination of both civil and military aircraft. We're looking for an HR Administrator to join the Filton site's HR function on a full time and permanent basis. This role is full time on site, with an early finish on Friday, and some flexible working available. The purpose of the role is to provide a responsive and reliable administration service to employees and managers. You will own end-to-end process execution from recruitment through to offboarding.

What You'll Be Doing As an HR Administrator you will take ownership and act as a compliance champion, ensuring the accuracy of the following:

• Recruiting and Onboarding Preparation of offer letters and contracts etc.
• Own pre-employment background check processes (BPSS).
• Provide support to recruitment processes including room booking, candidate communication etc.
• Employee Lifecycle and HRIS Maintain accurate employee records on the HRIS.
• Ownership of right to work compliance.
• Maintain agency worker compliance.
• Act as a first point of contact for transactional employee queries.
• Process contract change documents.
• Coordinate leaver processes and action employment reference requests.

What you'll Bring Essential In this role it is crucial to have held an administration role within an HR capacity, you will bring the following skills and experience into the role:

• Experience working in an HR Administrator role.
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment legislation.
• Experience maintaining employee records using an HRIS.
• Effective written and verbal English communication skills.
• Attention to detail.

Desirable Previous experience in the aerospace, defence, or manufacturing sector (or similar).

• Familiar with security clearance processes (BPSS, SC, DV).
• Knowledge of non-UK/Irish national employee compliance.
• Experience using SAP SuccessFactors.

What We'll Offer Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• Market leading salary for an HR Administrator.
• 4% performance related bonus.
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis.
• Life Assurance 8 x salary.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
• Flexible working hours including the ability to finish at early on a Friday.
• Income protection.
• Shopping discounts.
• Cycle To Work Scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family.
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment.

As well as a generous package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you! We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work. We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know. We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.