HR Coordinator (12 Months FTC)

Vacancy - HR Coordinator – 12 month FTC

Are you passionate about driving continuous improvement to progress HR processes and procedures? Do you have excellent communication and administrative experience? We’re seeking a HR Coordinator, on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract covering a maternity leave, who thrives in a fast paced and varied environment to work with managers and employees across a range of operational teams.  

Your role

In this role you will work closely with operational managers to understand their challenges and priorities and provide advice and guidance in line with HR policies and procedures to support them. You will take ownership of the absence management process as well as coordinating and supporting line managers with HR case work such as investigations, disciplinaries and grievances.

You will proactively support managers to manage sickness absence, ill health capability issues and promoting health and wellbeing within their teams. Throughout this time, you will increase your skillset and will also have the opportunity to contribute to wider HR strategies and projects.

What you'll bring

You will have strong administrative and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage with a diverse employee group, experienced in communicating with different stakeholders.

You will ideally have experience gained within a HR environment, giving high quality customer service and able to operate autonomously and prioritise effectively.

Ideally, you will have supported with employee relations activity, including but not limited to investigation, disciplinary, grievance and capability processes, maintaining up to date knowledge of current legislation.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers.  Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, critical illness insurance, gyms, retail vouchers
• Commitment to learning and personal development 
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our employee assistance programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!  Closing date for receipt of completed applications is 2nd June 2025.