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HR Coordinator
Date: 10 Feb 2026
Location:
High Wycombe, GB
Job Function: Business
Business Unit: OI plc
At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world's leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen's Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
This role is ideal for an enthusiastic, people‑orientated and analytical graduate who is passionate about developing a career in HR, and enjoys working with people, working with data, improving processes, and contributing to a high‑performance culture. It provides a strong foundation for progression into HR generalist, people analytics, or talent development pathways.
The Opportunity
As Our Graduate HR Coordinator, You'll Support The Day‑to‑day Operations Of Our HR Function Across Head Office — Combining Hands‑on People Interaction With Structured, Detail‑driven Work. You'll Develop Broad HR Expertise While Building Strong Relationships Across Teams And Gaining Experience In
* HR administration: onboarding, contracts, changes, policy queries
* Employee experience: engagement activities, events and communications
* Generalist HR support: regular contact with employees and managers, supporting ER processes
* HR projects: policy reviews, SharePoint management, compliance activity
* Training coordination: managing programmes, providers and logistics
* Payroll support: preparing and validating accurate monthly payroll inputs
Payroll and data work will require confidence with numbers and attention to detail — but the heart of this role is HR, problem‑solving and working with people.
About You
You'll thrive here if you are:
* Articulate, confident and able to build rapport at all levels
* Highly organised, reliable and proactive
* Strong with data, numeracy and Excel — comfortable ensuring accuracy
* Curious, motivated and eager to learn HR end‑to‑end
* Professional, discreet and trusted with confidential information
Experience with HR systems or payroll data is helpful but absolutely not essential.
Why Oxford Instruments
* Work for a company whose purpose is to accelerate the breakthroughs that advance our world
* Build a broad HR skillset with clear development pathways (HR generalist, people analytics, L&D)
* Gain CIPD support and strong professional mentoring
* Join a culture that values being Inclusive, Innovative, Trusted and Purposeful
At Oxford Instruments, we are proud of the environment that we have created. We hope that by joining us, you will discover why people stay with our business for so long and have such a significant impact on our globally growing success story.
This role is a hybrid role with the main location being High Wycombe. We work from 8:00 am until 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday and finish at 1:00 pm on Fridays, allowing you to start your weekend early.
Other Benefits
* 25 days holiday + bank holidays
* Private health care
* Generous pension
* Car scheme
* Cycle to work
* Income protection
* Employee Discounts
* Life assurance
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
Note to recruitment agencies: Oxford Instruments operates a Preferred Supplier List, and we do not accept unsolicited agency CVs. Please do not forward candidate details in response to this advert, or to any Oxford Instruments employees or other company locations. Oxford Instruments is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.
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