Location: Chorley (with a requirement for UK travel when required)
Employment type: Permanent / Full Time
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job, you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
We are looking for an experienced Head of HR Admin & Systems to lead the delivery of high-quality HR operational services. This role is responsible for HR systems governance, payroll oversight, HR administration excellence, and leading continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, compliance and employee experience.
Reporting into the HR function, you will manage a small HR administration team, be the PeopleHR system lead playing a key role in driving automation, process optimisation and ensuring data integrity.
You will bring significant experience in HR administration and systems management and payroll operations within a complex or multi-site environment. You will have a strong understanding of HR processes, employment documentation, data governance, compliance requirements and payroll and pension administration.
You will be highly analytical with exceptional attention to detail and a passion for continuous improvement. Experience of HR digital transformation projects, system implementations, reporting tools, and managing teams will be essential. A CIPD Level 5 qualification, or equivalent experience, would be advantageous.
You will also have:
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At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
