Job Description

HR Advisor; 4 month contract; based in Cambridge; 37 hours a week; £22.00 - £23.00 PAYE dependent upon experience

We are seeking an experienced HR Specialist/HR Advisor to join a busy team within a fast-paced manufacturing environment for Marshall Land Systems based in Cambridge. This role will provide comprehensive, hands-on HR support to operational leaders, ensuring best practice and compliance across all employee relations matters.

Key Responsibilities:
- Leading and supporting formal consultation processes, including redundancy programmes
- Managing complex absence management cases
- Handling disciplinary and grievance procedures end-to-end
- Advising managers on employee relations, policy application, and employment law
- Supporting organisational change initiatives within an operational setting
- Promoting positive employee engagement and workplace culture

Skills/Experience:
- Proven HR experience within a manufacturing, engineering, industrial, or similar operational environment
- Strong background in consultation and redundancy processes (essential)
- Demonstrable experience managing disciplinary, grievance, and absence cases
- Confident working autonomously in a fast-moving environment
- Up-to-date knowledge of UK employment legislation
- CIPD qualified or working towards (desirable) or qualified by experience

The jobholder will be pro-active and able to multi-task and have experience of being able to liaise confidently with stakeholders at all levels. The role is working in a small, supportive team. You will need to be able to manage complex ER queries and have good knowledge of the employee lifecycle.

The is role is working 4 days a week on site and the successful candidate will need to be able to do in person consultations on site.

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

Human Resources; HRBP; CIPD; HR Generalist; ER; Employment Relations; Employee Relations; Employer Relations; Coaching; Resource Planning; Trade Unions; Stakeholder management; People development; Talent Management; Succession Planning; HR Policies; Change Management; Mediation; HR Advisor; HR Specialist; Employment Law; People Management; Learning and Development; Capability Development; Early Careers; Consultations

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this role.