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Salary Location: London, United Kingdom
Thales Ground Transportation Systems UK (GTS) are helping to shape the future of the rail industry in the UK, and beyond. We specialise in signalling and communication, collaborating with the biggest names in the industry to deliver the rail of the future. Our Early Careers opportunities offer the chance to make a real difference to everyday lives, through the work that we do. This role is expected to transition to Hitachi Rail as part of the transfer of ownership of GTS from Thales.
Ground Transportation Systems UK (GTS) are helping to shape the future of the rail industry in the UK. We specialise in signalling and communication, collaborating with the biggest names in the industry to deliver the rail of the future. This role is expected to transition to Hitachi Rail as part of the transfer of ownership of GTS from Thales.
Our Opportunity
We currently have a 12 month Fixed-Term opportunity for a HR Generalist to join our London based team, with a particular leaning towards Employee Relations. You will be joining a strong HR team who serve our diverse workforce across the country. The post holder will work collaboratively with the GTS HR team, to deliver an exceptional HR service to our employees, focusing on providing consistent guidance and advice and helping to drive our people agenda to support the overall success of GTS.
This will be a hybrid role, with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week in one of our London based offices (mainly St Katherine’s Dock, however Waterloo, Beckton and Stratford should also be used) and up to 25% of your time spent travelling (other offices outside of London, conferences etc). You will also be required to work night shift at times to serve our population of night shift team members.
Key Responsibilities:
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
General HR
- Support SHRBPs/Talent Partners across full employee life cycle
- Advise, coach, challenge and support managers/employees in these respective areas
- Support SHRBPs in the delivery of transformational change
- Identify patterns/trends in casework that may require interventions and/or review/changes to policies/procedure
ER
- Provide general ER advice and guidance to employees and managers
- Manage cases across full ER Spectrum including:
- Life events (Family Leave/Sabbatical/Special Leave/Flexible Working Request)
- Performance management/probations
- Sickness management
- Attendance management
- Disciplinary and Grievance (investigations, hearings and appeals)
- Employment Tribunals/ACAS Early Conciliation (escalation to SHRBP/HRD as necessary)
- Union experience
- Support implementation of change & transformation programmes i.e. redundancy, restructuring, relocation, changes to T&C’s, TUPE, M&A(what is M&A?)
Human skills
- Ability to handle change
- Flexible and adaptable to work with stakeholders at all levels
- Approachable and able to build strong relationships quickly
- Highly professional
- Able to deal with complex issues in emotive scenarios
- Conviction and courage to deliver sometimes difficult messaging
Technical skills
- Proven hands-on experience in an HR role, with demonstrable focus on ER
- History of successfully handling ER cases
- Technical knowledge of ER processes such as redundancy, disciplinary, Occupational Health
- Experience of working in a unionised environment
What to expect
We aim to complete a single stage interview process, with the interview held in-person at our St Katherine’s Dock office. We will host a competency-based interview, with a focus on technical and behavioural. This will be followed by a brief, informal meet and greet with our HR Director. Reasonable adjustments are available with prior notice so please highlight if this would be necessary.
What We Can Offer
We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you will have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
GTS UK is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of GTS UK. We appreciate the strength that diversity adds to our teams. When you join us, you will be part of a business that is striving to be a welcoming, inclusive place to work. We actively promote and encourage our people to feel confident in bringing their true self to work every day.
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At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.
Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact
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