Job Description

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.

The purpose of this role is to be responsible for supporting all people matters arising throughout the employee life cycle. To advise, guide and coach managers on HR best practice, ensuring consistency in the application of the people policies across the business. To be the first point of contact in all people related
issues.

Key Responsibilities will include:
Effectively advise, guide and coach managers through all people related issues,
promoting best practice and ensuring consistency in managing issues.
Develop effective and strong relationships with managers at all levels to promote
good employee relations, coaching where needed to encourage early intervention to prevent escalation where possible.
Advise and support on the management of formal people processes, attending formal meetings and ensuring accurate records are taken and providing advice on process where necessary.
Lead on Absence Management across the business, proactively liaising with
managers to ensure absence issues are addressed in a consistent way, through
coaching, advising and supporting managers.
Responsible for advising on occupational sick pay entitlements, liaising with payroll to ensure timely communication with employees of changes in pay whilst absent.
To be the main point of contact with the Occupational Health provider. Responsible
for making referrals where necessary and ensuring the medical reports are
informative to the business. Liaise with the provider for usage information to share
with the business.
To promote EAP where appropriate. Liaise with the EAP provider for usage
to share with the business.
Responsible for provision of agreed MI across the business, including data analysis and insight.
To attend departmental management meetings to review and discuss workforce
planning, people related issues and MI reports.
To review and assist in improving HR processes to provide a first class HR service.
To work with the HR Business Partner in supporting the PDP for the HR Administration

Complementary Description

Our in-house design studio co-creates the most innovative experiences in the sky with our airline customers and partners. Our dedicated engineering, production and in-service support facilities are integral to delivering a high-end quality product that we keep flying throughout the life of programme. We are fully supported by a wide team of support functions, from HR to Finance, to Business Development and Planning and Logistics, our team is built to give Safran Seats an end-to-end capability in house in the UK.

We focus on:

Our people
These are our four People Fundamentals that underpin everything we do at Safran:
• We believe in and fostering the conditions for diversity and inclusion to thrive
• We develop our colleagues skills and build opportunities so you can shape our future
• We create a trustworthy work place to support you, as you dare to act and innovate
• We encourage collaboration and mutual support between you and your colleagues
So you'll be supported every step of the way!

Sustainability
Our people are at the heart of our success, as we work together to achieve our mission: contributing to a safer and more sustainable aviation. We are tackling the biggest challenges in aerospace, with a commitment to work to decarbonise the industry by 2050.

Global Mobility
As part of the Safran Group, across our businesses we are market leaders in aerospace, defence and space; there is always potential for future mobility in the UK and internationally.

Job Requirements

Candidate skills:
CIPD or equivalent HR qualification
Demonstrable experience of dealing with a broad range and high volume of HR issues as a HR generalist
Working knowledge of HR processes and systems
Experience of working with HR Systems such as ADP / SAP / Success Factors and ability to extract information.
Demonstrable strong interpersonal skills and able to build strong effective working relationships at all levels
Competent user of MS Office applications (including intermediary level Excel and Word)
Excellent organisational skills; demonstrable ability to multi task whilst still meeting deadlines.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!

Our employees are at the heart of our success, as we work together for our sustainable future. There are four People Fundamentals that underpin life at Safran:
• We believe in and promote diversity and inclusion as key values across our business
• We develop our colleagues skills and build opportunities so you can shape our future
• We create a trustworthy work place to support you, as you dare to act and innovate
• We encourage collaboration and mutual support for you and your colleagues

As a valued member of our team, these are just a few of the benefits you'll receive:
• 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays
• Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts and access to private healthcare
• Career Progressions opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses
• Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave and flexible working
• Equality & Diversity initiatives with internal groups for workplace engagement and involvement
• STEM engagement with schools, colleges and universities and Charitable activities for all

Please apply and submit your CV today! Once your CV has been reviewed, we will contact you with the next stages.

We want Safran Seats to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and know they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.

We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Safran Seats an inclusive place to work.

Specificity of the job

Travel requirements (UK / International)