Pay, benefits and culture

We’re offering a competitive salary, pension and bonus, with terms and conditions covered by the EDF Nuclear Generation Personal Contract. The starting salary will be dependent on your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications.

This is a full time position based primarily on site, but we're happy to discuss options around flexible and hybrid working if this is of interest to you.

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself.  We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.  We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you’ll be doing

As our Human Resources Manager, you will deliver and lead in the following areas: 

• Reward – working with the central reward team to ensure fair application of the strategy and managing the local review process to support line managers apply a fair approach
• Resourcing and Talent Planning – supporting the management team with the plans and implementation of recruitment, learning and development and succession planning to ensure there is resilience across the station as well as strategies in place to ensure the development and progression of the station team
• Employee Relations – liaising with representatives from trade unions, central support and leadership teams to ensure a positive and proactive ER climate is maintained, enabling the business to deliver its operational priorities
• HR Operational Delivery – providing the on-site HR team with the resources to provide an excellent level of service and ensuring senior management support as required. 

This is of course not an exhaustive list and your flexibility, resilience and aptitude for change will be key to your success in this position. 

Who you are

You should have a proven ability to deliver high quality HR generalist support, including strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practice. We’re looking for you to have a manufacturing or industrial background where you have worked with a multidisciplined workforce. Experience working with trade unions is really important and it would be good to see you demonstrate previous involvement or leadership in change management. 

The ability to work effectively within a matrix managed organisation is also key, as well as being confident to coach and challenge senior executives, influencing as appropriate to ensure successful outcomes. You’ll need to be comfortable in complex environments and able to move effortlessly between strategic topics and day to day HR activities, with a strong commercial acumen alongside. You should be able to demonstrate a strong professional network and continuous personal development – this would mean being a Chartered member/Chartered Fellow of CIPD or equivalent experience. A postgraduate qualification in HR would be an advantage.