HR Coordinator

Description:

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