Role: HR Specialist
Location: Welwyn Garden City / Hybrid
Contract type: Full time, permanent
Riello is now looking for a HR Specialist to be responsible for overseeing all key HR activities, both managerial and administrative. You will deliver a high-quality HR service that supports managers and employees.. This is a stand alone hybrid role, operating as part of the wider HR team within the UK & Ireland, reporting into the HR Manager.
What will the key responsibilities be?
1. Act as a first point of contact for managers and employees day to day HR matters.
2. Prepare employment contracts, offer letters, and documentation in line with UK employment law.
3. Manage end-to-end employee lifecycle activities, i.e. internal people policies, procedures, leave (personal, maternity, paternity, etc), role changes, contract updates, employee benefits, and best practice.
4. Support recruitment activities such as job description creation, shortlisting, interviewing, and onboarding.
5. Support managers in training and development initiatives.
6. Assist with absence management, including return-to-work processes and monitoring trends.
7. Support in management of end-to-end disciplinary processes, ensuring fairness, compliance, and timely resolution.
8. Monitor trends relating to absence, turnover, recruitment and workforce activity, escalating issues where appropriate.
9. Support HR organisation with more complex or escalated cases as required.
10. Maintain accurate, confidential, and up-to-date employee records in line with GDPR and company standards.
Requirements
11. Minimum 3 years working in a HR Specialist, HR Generalist, HR Advisor, or similar HR role
12. Excellent communication skills with the ability to build trust through openness, transparency.
13. Good working knowledge of modern practices and employment law.
14. Strong working knowledge of UK employment law, particularly relating to disciplinary, grievance, TUPE, and redundancy.
15. Experience managing ER cases with minimal supervision.
16. CIPD Level 3 qualified or actively working toward completion.
17. High level of proficiency in the full Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
18. Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple cases simultaneously.
19. Confident working autonomously while maintaining alignment with organisational policies and HR best practice.
Benefits
20. Very competitive base salary
21. Hybrid working, home and office
22. 25 Days Holiday + bank holidays
23. Holiday purchase scheme
24. Company Pension
25. Life Assurance
More about us:
Riello UK manufactures a comprehensive range of gas, oil and dual fuel burners for residential, commercial and industrial applications, for single stage, two stage and modulating operation. We also manufacture gas boosters for applications where the mains gas pressure available needs to be increased.
Riello is a global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced technologies for heating and cooling in the residential, commercial, industrial and process sectors. The company’s strength is the result of its technological innovation capacities and the experience it has acquired over the years, underpinned by the expertise of its technicians, professionals and collaborators.
Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.