HR Advisor (Ref: HRA0426)

Role Purpose

Reporting to the HR manager, your role as HR advisor will be to provide proactive, generalist HR support across all sites, ensuring alignment with company strategy, legal compliance, and best practice. As HR Advisor you will play a key role in supporting employee relations, advising managers, and contributing to the delivery of HR initiatives, including training and development activities, to ensure a consistent and effective, people-focused service across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Support delivery of people strategy and HR KPIs (absence, retention, turnover).
• Advise managers on HR policies, procedures, and employment law.
• Manage ER cases, absence, and occupational health referrals.
• Advise and lead TUPE transfers
• Ensure HR systems and data are accurate and compliant.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and training compliance.
• Promote diversity, engagement, and well-being initiatives.
• Collaborate on resource planning and community outreach.
• Participate in HR projects and cross-site activities.

Skills & Experience

• Proven HR advisory experience
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Knowledge of employment legislation
• Experience with HR systems
• Organised, practical, and solution-focused

Qualifications

• CIPD qualification Level 5 (essential)
• HR experience in a fast paced industry (essential)

The Company Offers

• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Working alongside experts in their field
• Health cash plan including compensation for dentistry and optical well being
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Additional holiday increase with length of service
• Team building and activity days
• Monthly employee value-based recognition award – monetary gift
• Health, wellbeing and social calendar of events
• Long service awards
• Enhanced marriage leave
• Holiday sell back scheme
• Kingsbridge Membership Club

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Irwin M&E’s continual growth. If you are ready to take your career to the next level and feel you have the ability to meet our criteria, then please send your CV with a covering letter supporting your application to Irwin.jobs@irwinm-e.com

We are a Responsible Body for Access NI. A disclosure check will be undertaken; however, a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining this role. Our policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders is available on request.

As per the AccessNI Code of Practice Irwin M&E has a policy on the Secure Handling, Use, Storage and Retention of Disclosure information, this policy can be viewed by following the link below

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/accessni-code-practice

Closing date for applications is Friday 17^th April 2026 at 4pm.

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