Location Wotton-under-Edge, Glos
Salary up to £30,000 depending on experience
Hybrid working 3 days/week onsite
Renishaw is seeking an HR Administrator to provide employee lifecycle support and enhance our Human Resources Shared Services Team. This role plays an integral part in delivering efficient, accurate and customer-focused administrative support, ensuring consistent HR process in line with company policies, procedures and employment legislation. The role acts as a first point of contact for HR queries and supports managers and employees with transactional HR activities.
The role sits within the HR Shared Services team, reporting to the HR Shared Services Team Leader, working closely across functions to ensure effective service delivery and continuous process improvement.
Responsibilities
Employee lifecycle administration
Process new starters, contractual changes, transfers and leavers.
Prepare employment contracts, letters and HR documentation.
Coordinate onboarding and induction activities.
Maintain accurate employee records within HR systems such as Workday and manage day to day tasks.
HR query management
Act as the first point of contact for HR-related enquiries.
Manage the HR shared inbox and respond to routine employee and manager queries.
Provide support and guidance to employees throughout their family friendly leave journey
Escalate complex issues to HR Advisors, HR Business Partners or specialist teams as required, support notetaking and letter preparation activities.
Data management & compliance
Ensure employee data is accurate, complete and maintained in line with GDPR requirements.
Conduct compliance checks, including right-to-work, probation and employment documentation.
Produce standard HR reports and metrics as required.
Payroll & benefits support
Process payroll-related changes and liaise with the Payroll team to ensure timely and accurate processing.
Support benefits administration and employee data uploads.
Continuous improvement
Identify opportunities to improve HR processes and service delivery.
Support HR projects through system testing, process improvements and data quality initiatives.
Maintain process documentation and guides, support knowledge-sharing across the team.
Key requirements
Previous experience in an HR administration high-volume administrative role.
Strong attention to detail, organisational skills and process minded.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
Customer focused and collaborative approach.
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams).
Desirable requirements
Experience working within an HR Shared Services environment.
Knowledge of employment legislation and HR processes.
Experience using Workday (HRIS).
CIPD qualification or working towards CIPD Level 3 or equivalent.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
Please click here for further information about our benefits.
At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 490384 or [email protected].
Please click here for further information about diversity and inclusion at Renishaw.
Employment Type:
PermanentTime Type:
Full timeRequisition Number:
R9783 HR Administrator (Open)Skills Required
- Previous experience in an HR administration high-volume administrative role.
- Strong attention to detail, organisational skills and process minded.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
- Customer focused and collaborative approach.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams).
- Experience working within an HR Shared Services environment.
- Knowledge of employment legislation and HR processes.
- Experience using Workday (HRIS).
- CIPD qualification or working towards CIPD Level 3 or equivalent.
Renishaw Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Renishaw and has not been reviewed or approved by Renishaw.
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Retirement Support — The pension scheme includes a 9% employer contribution with salary‑sacrifice options, signaling strong long‑term savings support. Feedback suggests this materially strengthens total compensation in the UK.
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Healthcare Strength — Subsidized private medical cover, life assurance, and a 24/7 EAP—alongside options like a health cash plan and on‑site fitness centers—indicate comprehensive health and wellbeing support. These provisions contribute to a sense of strong healthcare coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days of annual leave with company days, long‑service accrual, and the option to buy additional leave point to generous time‑off provision. Hybrid and “variable working” arrangements further support work–life balance when roles allow.
Renishaw Insights
What We Do
Renishaw is one of the world's leading engineering and scientific technology companies, with expertise in precision measurement and healthcare. The company supplies products and services used in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery. It is also a world leader in the field of additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing), where it designs and makes industrial machines which ‘print' parts from metal powder. The Renishaw Group currently has 80 offices in 36 countries, with over 5,000 employees, of which over 3,000 people are employed within the UK. The majority of the company's R&D and manufacturing is carried out in the UK and for the year ended June 2019, Renishaw achieved sales of £574 million of which 94% was due to exports. The company's largest markets are USA, China, Japan and Germany









