HR Advisor

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defence technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defence and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 48,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Job Title - HR Advisor

Job Location - Tewkesbury, UK

We can offer hybrid working pattern, with time in our offices and your home, to enable a good work-life balance. We do require you to be on-site 3 days per week.

Job ID - 15003

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Tewkesbury is part of our ICI division, we work closely with UK Government and Security Agencies primarily in the areas of crypto/cyber security, electronic warfare, counter drone capabilities and situation awareness projects.

The HR Team are seeking a confident self-starter who is capable of leaning into all areas of HR, learning how to deliver great service to our stakeholders and providing an exceptional service to our employees.

The role would support all administration and coordination needs of a busy HR team in the first instance, taking the tasks and putting their own spin on things where efficiencies and better delivery can be found. However, we would be looking for this role to grow and develop to become a confident HR Advisor, and in time HRBP. This would require someone who can maintain status quo with transactional work, support client groups, lead training, execute large scale programmes and deliver on projects.

We are looking for someone who wants to build a truly generalist career in HR, ticking all boxes from advising and guiding to supporting the growth of our talent. This role would be matrixed, reporting into the Head of HR but delivering for global stakeholders both internal to HR and within the Business Units.

As well as a competitive salary, the business would look to support the individual with their CIPD qualifications demonstrating the commitment to grow the next HR leader for L3 Harris UK.

A few of our employee benefits

• Hybrid working where possible - 3 days onsite as a minimum
• Flexible start/finish times
• 12pm finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Basic understanding of UK employment law and being comfortable interpreting policies
• Comfortable with working with process and automation
• IT savvy - confidence in moving between different systems and guiding employees to use different systems
• Confidence in responding to email queries, also checking in with the policies and department leaders when uncertain
• Being a self-starter - the department is busy, at times with individual will be left to deliver a brief independently and will need to make sure they have the check ins with the relevant leader to review progress and outputs
• Pride in accuracy of data in our HR Information Systems
• Training and supporting individuals with new and existing HR systems
• Ability to interpret data would be an advantage
• Confidence in talking to people face to face
• Be an advocate for expert customer service as this role will be front facing for the HR department
• Enthusiastic approach to go above and beyond for our business, putting the employee experience first

What you’ll bring

The role of HR Advisor requires the following experience and skills:

• Experience or qualification/degree in relevant subjects
• Prior experience in an entry level HR role would be desirable
• Ability to effectively present information to employees at all levels of the organisation
• Good MS Office skills
• Able to competently capture meeting minutes
• Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality in line with policy and GDPR
• A self-starter committed to delivery and personal development of self and team
• Emotionally resilient, highly flexible and a naturally inquisitive individual
• Ability to work independently and as part of a fast-paced team
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.